Immigration Reform

There are basics: some wish to keep brown skinned immigrants out of the U.S.; this includes a significant sentiment among African -Americans.  Some wish to provide a legitimate path to citizenship for those born here, the issue(offspring) of persons with illegal status, some of whom are long term, upstanding residents with unresolved status issues.  There are also the pure politics, drawn from ascendant ambitions:  Republicans who want to be President because their egos demand the world's most influential personal vanity-"leader of the free world". 
It is alarming that the futures of so many gainfully employed and productive residents can be tied to an essentially insipid debate: that  millions of immigrants( i.e. the US population minus the Amerind peoples)feel worthy to adjudge the ambitions of people who simply wish to immigrate to find a better life. 
There are fundamental and fair questions: how many immigrants should we permit with a view towards improving social and economic conditions in the U.S..  How can we limit the cultural and racial biases that cause greater acceptance of and preferences for White Europeans than any other group.
The domestic politics have been divisive and inflammatory or- in a phrase- typically Republican.  As such, they have typically abdicated leadership in favor of the whims of wealthy donors.  The wealthy may actually see these question in terms of an abundance of low-waged agricultural workers and household help.  The nation cannot afford to be so blithely ignorant.  Immigration is a source of national economic growth. It is a benefit of a robust economy that we can attract talent and ambition from across the globe.
The politics of the reform legislation will perhaps play out this way: another law that provokes a flood of political money to both parties.  But on the Republican side it will enable further obstruction and government debilitation.  Because while our government is stalled in the political abyss of Republican sabotage, the world spins on: our food supply increasingly attenuated with chemical dependence, our air more lethal from toxic emissions. our water more scarce and commoditized for chemical agriculture, and fracking.  The world populations continue to blossom and our ability to house, hydrate, and feed them more tenuous.
One wonders, how long before the politics of freedom, which seems to burst out in place to place from time to time, will become incumbent with a greater issue: in a world of short supply of the necessities of life, will we continue to tolerate the influence of money in determining quality of life?  When the price of bread is treated like the price of oil, will we continue to accept the privileges of wealth?  There is one greater revolution in the making; one vast parallel-and- conscious rising as one. It will be to demand, then take, the basics of life as a right: air, water, food, space, justice, and social equality. 
Today it is nascent, hidden in the price of a potato-- the chemical de-evolution of global food supplies. The potato that twice has sustained the dynamic eras of world population growth; we are losing the potato--it is diminished from 4,000 varieties over 11,000 years of human social evolution into a plant that must be grown from a patented seed, and which cannot survive without 5-7 patented-chemical applications per acre, per year.  One that must be fortunate enough that nature does not develop an acute microbe to destroy it. It is a change that puts the world on a path to starvation without technical advances that apparently do not yet exist. 

In the dire place of human necessity, there is yet a seed of revolution; and it cannot be patented.