Reconquista: Amnesty’s Back
Obama to Push Immigration Bill Despite the Risks
By JULIA PRESTON
NYTimes
While acknowledging that the recession makes the political battle more difficult, President Obama plans to begin addressing the country’s immigration system this year, including looking for a path for illegal immigrants to become legal, a senior administration official said on Wednesday.
Mr. Obama will frame the new effort — likely to rouse passions on all sides of the highly divisive issue — as “policy reform that controls immigration and makes it an orderly system,” said the official, Cecilia Muñoz, deputy assistant to the president and director of intergovernmental affairs in the White House.
Mr. Obama plans to speak publicly about the issue in May, administration officials said, and over the summer he will convene working groups, including lawmakers from both parties and a range of immigration groups, to begin discussing possible legislation for as early as this fall.
Some White House officials said that immigration would not take precedence over the health care and energy proposals that Mr. Obama has identified as priorities. But the timetable is consistent with pledges Mr. Obama made to Hispanic groups in last year’s campaign.
He said then that comprehensive immigration legislation, including a plan to make legal status possible for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants, would be a priority in his first year in office. Latino voters turned out strongly for Mr. Obama in the election.
“He intends to start the debate this year,” Ms. Muñoz said.
But with the economy seriously ailing, advocates on different sides of the debate said that immigration could become a polarizing issue for Mr. Obama in a year when he has many other major battles to fight.
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Real nice we are aready waist deep in mexicans, here no joke, it looks like tiajuna, illiegals on every corner and home depot trying to get work. HOWBOUT THEY SEND THEM HOME,UNTIL SOMEONE NEEDS ONE TO WORK FOR THEM WITH A JOB (IE,FARMERS)
Please someone tell me this is a hellish-nightmare we’re living and we’ll wake up soon!!! With so many Americans out of work right now, HOW can this be a good idea?
Ugh! Let the Mexican Marathon begin
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Let me get this straight - hussein needs to pass legislation to legalize 12 million (probably more like 20 million) lawbreakers, effectively flooding a job market that already has extremely high levels of real Americans unemployed? Oh, lets not forget that he also wants to make sure those 3000 pesky illegal irish immigrants get punished…white men need not immigrate here anymore.
1. He needs those 12 million to provide as many votes as possible for him in the next election (12 million = 24 million in ACORN math).
2. He (Obama) wants to become a legal citizen too.
2. He (Obama) wants to become a legal citizen too.
DOH!
I wish I could recall the stas, maybe I can find the email from Beowulf that shows how three previous presidents had (during the depression and after WWI, and WWII) had deported aliens and immigrants in order to provide AMERICANS with jobs in AMERICA … and it worked.
How do you say comrade in spanish?
companero
¡Yo quiero Taco Bell!
He can’t really be stupid enough to kick over THIS beehive now….wait…don’t answer that.