I know I'm over-simplifying things, but I swear that the Congress and the President need to learn from the youth in our culture.

Have these morons never heard of baby steps?

Witness the current immigration bill mess.  We have an incredibly complicated piece of legislation, with a few ammendments here, a few there, etc., that is trying to pass through Congress while the people are -- for the most part -- decrying the bill from all directions for not doing enough, giving away too much, and otherwise being flawed beyond the point that it should be passed.

I realize that passing lots of little measures is more work, and that it could lead to having disjointed pieces of legislation that interact in unexpected ways that conflict with the greater good, but I'm left to wonder why the Congress isn't working harder to break the immigration bill up into several smaller bills that would address the various points raised in this larger bill.

In the end, we might wind up with the same mess we're looking at now, but would it not seem better to pass one bill that addresses border security, another addresses the number of so-called guest workers, another that addresses tightening up restrictions on so-called guest workers, etc., and get *some* bills passed rather than having one big take it all or leave it all mess that can't get out of it's own way to be passed?

Most U.S. citizens would agree that we very badly need to address border security.  I find it very hard to believe that a border security bill of any substance couldn't get passed by an over-whelming majority of the Congress.  Which Congress-critter really wants to have to explain to the voters why they didn't want to make the borders more secure?

Once you get beyond border security, I realize that things get cloudier and getting a consensus to pass things is tougher.  Expanding the numbers of work visas we grant to foreign citizens is a very touchy subject.  The durations for those visa, also a touchy subject, etc.  But for each little piece you break off and address in it's own little world, you'll have accomplished that much more to address the bigger problems.  Eventually the Congress would have addressed the bulk of the problems that face us in the immigration area, and in doing so, we could get past a lot of the issues without the huge waste of time the existing bill and all of it's bulk have laden us with.