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The long awaited season 2 of Netflix original drama House of Cards was finally released last Friday. My Facebook feed was a long stream of ‘House of Cards’ updates and I am thankful no one posted any spoilers before I could get to the end of the show. People must have listened to President Obama’s tweet request not to post spoilers.
As a relatively new US citizen who has been learning about politics, I could not help but think of immigration reform and the politics behind it throughout each of the 13 episodes. While Boehner is not the Whip and Kevin Spacey’s character Frank Underwood is not the Speaker, I cannot help but think how similar the process of gathering votes and trading support and sponsorship of bills must be. Even Kevin Spacey said in an interview with ABC that the storylines don’t seem too far fetched from reality.
This confirms to me again that immigration reform is hostage to politics. Perhaps we need a Congresswoman Jackie Sharp type character (watch the show) to pull in carts and carts of documents to House Republicans demonstrating the dire consequences of lack of immigration reform to individuals, families and businesses in every industry. Only then the GOP might realize how their inaction is hurting the country.
(Real) House vs. (fictitious) House- where do you think immigration reform will pass first?
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