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Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel offers thoughts on the immigrant mindset and immigration reform at a panel at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

A panel of Democrats and Republicans led by Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday agreed federal immigration reform makes sense for Chicago but differed on President Barack Obamas record on border security and the logistics of getting something done.

Emanuel, U.S. Rep Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., and U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., met at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs to discuss the likelihood of the federal government getting something done on the politically divisive issue during an election year.

Kinzinger said theres distrust among House Republicans that Obama will enforce tougher laws on security at the U.S. border with Mexico, which many GOP members of Congress insist be part of any immigration package. Theres a belief on the right side of the aisle that the president is not eager to follow the laws that are passed, Kinzinger said. You look at the health care law and parts that have been delayed and pushed off and stuff. So this is overall reality. Theres a belief in that.

If we can put a guarantee in there that you have border security, and then the next steps, even if its a comprehensive package, I think we can get this done, Kinzinger said.

The mayor took exception with Kinzingers characterization of Obamas position on border security. Im going to bite my tongue so I dont destroy the bi-partisanship up here, but Im not going to let Adams statement stand untested, Emanuel said. First of all, as it relates to border security, the presidents record speaks for itself on enforcement without the legislation.

I would venture to say the attack on the president is more about camouflaging the differences within the Republican Party, because the record of the president for the last five years on border security speaks for itself, he said.

And Emanuel said border security needs to be combined in an immigration reform package with tougher rules against employers hiring illegal immigrants to work at their businesses. But the mayor said the two sides have broad agreement on many of the important issues.

Critics have said that as Obamas first chief of staff, Emanuel got in the way of comprehensive immigration reform while he was Obamas chief of staffbecause he thought it would hurt Democrats at the polls. As mayor, Emanuel has taken a strong pro-immigration reform stance, a position dear to Chicagos many voters of Mexican descent.

Kinzinger said a step by step approach on immigration reform legislation might start coming out of the House after members who dont want to anger anti-reform voters make it through their primary elections. The sad thing is, I think we have to get past some of the primaries, Kinzinger said. But I think once we do, what we may see out of the House is a border security bill followed by high skill visas.

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Emanuel, Republicans disagree on approach to immigration reform approval

Distilled to their discouraging essence, Republicans reasons for retreating from immigration reform reflect waning confidence in American culture and in the political mission only Republicans can perform restoring Americas economic vigor.

Many Republicans say addressing immigration will distract from a winning focus on Obamacare. But a mature party avoids monomania, and Obamacares manifold defects are obvious enough that voters will not require nine more months of reminders.

Many Republicans say immigration policy divides their party. If, however, the party becomes a gaggle of veto groups enforcing unanimities, it will become what completely harmonious parties are: small.

Many Republicans see in immigrants only future Democratic votes. This descent into Democratic-style identity politics is unworthy of Republicans, and unrealistic. U.S. history tells a consistent story the party identified with prosperity, and hence opportunity, prospers.

Many Republicans have understandable cultural concerns, worrying that immigrants from this hemisphere do not experience the psychological guillotine that severed trans-Atlantic immigrants from prior allegiances. But is there data proving that American culture has lost its assimilative power? Thirty-five percent of illegal adult immigrants have been here at least 15 years, 28 percent for 10 to 14 years and only 15 percent for less than five years. Thirty-five percent own their homes. Are we sure they are resisting assimilation?

Many Republicans rightly say control of borders is an essential ingredient of national sovereignty. But net immigration from Mexico has recently been approximately zero. Border Patrol spending, which quadrupled in the 1990s, tripled in the 2000s. With illegal entries near a 40-year low, and a 2012 Government Accountability Office assessment that border security was then 84 percent effective, will a border surge of $30 billion more for the further militarization (actually, the East Germanization) of the 1,969 miles assuage remaining worries?

Many Republicans say immigration runs counter to U.S. social policies aiming to reduce the number of people with low levels of skill and education, and must further depress the wages of Americans. This is true. But so is this: The Congressional Budget Office says an initial slight reduction of low wages (0.1 percent in a decade) will be followed by increased economic growth partly attributable to immigrants.

Immigration is the entrepreneurial act of taking the risk of uprooting oneself and plunging into uncertainty. Small wonder, then, that immigrants are about 20 percent of owners of small businesses, and that more than 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or their children.

George W. Bush was the first president since Woodrow Wilson to serve two terms and leave office with the average household income lower than when he entered it. Obama may be the second. Forty-seven percent of the House Republican conference has been in Washington 37 months or less; 21 percent of them have never held any other elective office. Many plunged into politics because they were dismayed about the nations trajectory under the current president and his predecessor. Many are understandably disposed against immigration because they have little aptitude for politics suited to, and aimed at restoring, vibrancy.

Some Depression-era progressives, expecting capitalisms crisis to produce a prolonged and perhaps permanent scarcity of jobs, hoped Social Security would open jobs for the young by encouraging older workers to retire. Progressives often are ambivalent about scarcities because they see themselves as administrators of rationing. But President Bill Clinton, refuting opposition much of it from Democrats to the North American Free Trade Agreement, splendidly said: Protectionism is just a fancy word for giving up.

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