Herb Kohl, co-architect of our "broken" immigration policy, leaving politics

Ever wonder about those members of Congress who have been telling us for years that our "immigration policy is broken" but never acknowledge their roles in helping to make it so?

Among these "law makers" who have been steadfast in helping to block legislation to enforce our immigration laws that were designed to protect American workers is retiring Wisconsin Sen. Herb Kohl.  A quick visit to his web site reveals that immigration is not listed among his concerns.  That's because like most Democrats, Kohl has spent his years in Congress betraying the most vulnerable in our society while embracing the idea that cheap foreign labor, especially the illegal variety, benefits us all.

When Kohl announced he was leaving the U.S. Senate after 24 years of telling us that he was "nobody's senator but yours," the accolades naturally began pouring in, including a few words from Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican who has yet to publicly state his position on looking out for American jobs.

So if you're among the nation's 22 million citizens who are unemployed and  looking for full-time work while 8 million illegals are being permitted to keep their jobs and the government each month continues to issue 125,000 green cards to foreign workers, or simply a worker in general who each day worries about supporting a family and hopes to keep his or her home, you might want to drop Kohl a line to say, "Thanks for nothing."

Americans always can hope that Kohl's successor will possess what he lacked when it came to dealing with the nation's single most important public policy issue, i.e., a spine, but right now they should be aware that among those considered to be possible candidates are my representative Ron Kind and Rep. Tammy Baldwin.