White House to Push Immigration Reform in 2010

// added November 14, 2009 // 7 comments //
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/us/politics/14immig.html

The Obama administration will insist on measures to give legal status to an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants as it pushes early next year for legislation to overhaul the immigration system, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Friday.

In her first major speech on the overhaul, Ms. Napolitano dispelled any suggestion that the administration — with health care, energy and other major issues crowding its agenda — would postpone the most contentious piece of immigration legislation until after midterm elections next November.

Laying out the administration’s bottom line, Ms. Napolitano said officials would argue for a “three-legged stool” that includes tougher enforcement laws against illegal immigrants and employers who hire them and a streamlined system for legal immigration, as well as a “tough and fair pathway to earned legal status.”

Speaking at the Center for American Progress, a liberal policy group in Washington, Ms. Napolitano unveiled a double-barrel argument for a legalization program, saying it would enhance national security and, as the economy climbs out of recession, protect American workers from unfair competition from lower-paid, easily exploited illegal immigrants.

“Let me emphasize this: we will never have fully effective law enforcement or national security as long as so many millions remain in the shadows,” she said, adding that the recovering economy would be strengthened “as these immigrants become full-paying taxpayers.”

Under the administration’s plan, illegal immigrants who hope to gain legal status would have to register, pay fines and all taxes they owe, pass a criminal background check and learn English.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/us/politics/14immig.html
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    News,   US Politics,   US Congress Watch
  2. tags:
    Immigration,  Homeland Security,  Reform,  Progress

7 comments // White House to Push Immigration Reform in 2010

  • jubal
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      jubal  

    • Yes indeed, we need to put a stop to lines that take 12 years to get through the cue.

      People with approved petitions should have their cases accelerated by the State Department and we need to deal with the status of illegals here in this country who have, other than the fact of their illegal status, have conducted themselves otherwise as responsible citizens.

      Clearly those who are here to cause chaos and mayhem because they are tools of cartels, drug lords and narco traffikers should be expelled. They need to be identified and dealt with swiftly.

      But before any reform can happen, we need to secure the borders.

    • 3 months ago
  • courage
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      courage  

    • katrina deaths 1800 bush villified and castigated......H1N1 deaths 4000 obamas total inaction ignored.Obama allowed 4000 children to die in a pandemic on his watch he should be Impeached

    • 3 months ago
  • courage
  • samthesixth
  • ismaelo44
  • JohnA
  • Chique
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      Chique  

    • Too bad this administration isn't doing anything ;-) . . . Logical and reasonable solution, I could get used to this!

    • 3 months ago
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