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Status quo?

Ah, well, so much for American politics. Again, without putting too fine a point upon it, I hope our generalizations are not, by and large, too wide of the mark.

Here are media examples of the status quo and people to want to change it:

1. Barack Obama, ambitious plate-spinner, has added another platter to the presidential act: immigration reform.

White House aides have let it be known he intends to push for comprehensive immigration reform this year - on top of health care reform, a big energy agenda and rescuing the American financial system.

Great good luck to him.

America’s immigration system was in desperate need of an overhaul when President Bush turned to the task in 2007, only to be swamped by a grass-roots “amnesty” revolt. Give credit to Obama for understanding that the status quo still stinks.

Every day, employers grow more frustrated at their inability to confirm workers’ immigration status.

Every day, drugs and people pour in over the borders while guns flow the other way.

Every day, countless would-be legal immigrants, including skilled workers, beat their heads against the walls of a bureaucratic maze.

And every day, 12 million people toil in the shadows, unable to climb the rungs toward citizenship.

Yes, they’re in the country illegally. But, no, there is no practical way to boot them all. Nor should we try, given that most are productive residents in jobs that citizens have spurned.