Illegal aliens, be careful for what you wish for.

[LilOlLady]

ILLEGAL ALIENS, BE CAREFUL FOR WHAT YOU WISH FOR.

Why people come here illegally? Because business want a endless supply of cheap labor and Immig. Reform will not change that. Will business still want Mexican workers if they have to pay the fair wages plus benefits? Illegal Aliens with green cards will meet the same obstacles and discrimination as Afro-Americans. Business will hair white Americans before the will Mexicans or Blacks if they had to pay fair wages plus benefits. So Illegal Aliens you are better off staying Illegal Aliens and have a job even if it is low wages. And continue to seek healthcare at hospital emergency rooms. Pay very little in taxes and get big tax credits and refunds. So be careful what you wish for be case amnesty may well be your worse enemy and send you back to Mexico.
Immigration Reform may well be the best thing for Americans. White Americans. Mexican will be sceaming discrimination and affirmative action.

 

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Obama gonna come up with his own plan if Congress don't...

Senators hopeful of comprehensive US immigration reform by summer
29 Jan, 2013, WASHINGTON: Influential US Senators hope to have a comprehensive immigration reform in place by this summer, which could legalise 11 million undocumented workers and address the issue of long wait for permanent residency.

"We have come together on a set of bipartisan principles for comprehensive immigration reforms that we hope can pass the Senate in an overwhelming and bipartisan fashion," Senator Charles Schumer said after he and a bi-partisan group of seven influential Senators came up with set of bipartisan principles for comprehensive immigration reform legislation. "It's our hope that these principles can be turned into legislation by March with the goal of passage out of the Senate by late spring or summer," Schumer, the No. 3 Democrat in the Senate, told reporters.

The plan, crafted by four Republicans and four Democrats, is comprised of four elements - creating a pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants, reforming the legal immigration system, setting up an effective employment verification system, and creating an improved process for admitting into the US valuable workers.

The White House welcomed the move on immigration and termed it as a big deal. "This is a big deal. This is an important development. This is in keeping with the principles the president has been espousing for a long time, in keeping with bipartisan efforts in the past and with the effort this president believes has to end in a law that he can sign," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters at his daily news conference.

Obama is scheduled to announce tomorrow his aspect of a comprehensive immigration policy at Las Vegas in Nevada. Schumer said that to prove to the American people that they are serious about permanently ending illegal immigration to the US, that will never put these individuals on a path to citizenship until they have fully secured the country's borders and combated the pattern of people overstaying their legal immigration visas. "This is a first step in what will continue to be difficult but achievable," Senator John McCain said.

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A Better Immigration Plan
January 29, 2013 - President Obama hit the right notes when he made the case for overhauling the immigration system in a speech in Las Vegas on Tuesday. He spoke one day after a bipartisan group of eight senators released their own blueprint for a comprehensive reform bill, and the back-to-back events gave the odd sensation — rare during the Obama administration — of seeing Congress and the White House moving in more or less the same direction.[/b]

“Now is the time,” Mr. Obama said, noting that Washington was having a bipartisan moment on immigration not seen since George W. Bush was president and Senator Edward Kennedy was leading the push for reform. The president restated the familiar and still-sound principles behind an immigration overhaul: a more secure border and workplace; legalization for 11 million undocumented immigrants; and a modernized system of legal immigration that eliminates backlogs, reunites families and has enough visas for valued workers and entrepreneurs. He also gave a helpful reminder that it’s wrong to cast immigration as a battle of “them” and “us.” A false distinction, he said, because most of us used to be “them.”

The fiercest point of debate and the biggest obstacle to a bill, of course, is whether and how to get “them” — that is, 11 million undocumented immigrants — out of the shadows, free to live and work here legally and to become citizens if they wish. “It should be clear at the outset that there is a pathway to citizenship,” Mr. Obama said, stressing the “is.” An objectionable part of the senators’ blueprint is that it refuses to put undocumented immigrants on a path to permanent residency and citizenship until a host of border-enforcement actions is completed first.

Given existing immigration backlogs and the possibility of other administrative hurdles being placed in the way, any future path to citizenship could be so long and burdensome as to be all but imaginary. Mr. Obama, to his credit, made the citizenship path a central part of his plan and did not make it contingent on adding still more troops, border fencing and aerial drones.

Mr. Obama released his own list of immigration-reform principles separately on Tuesday, and it is far better than the plan put forward by the senators. Besides the forceful language on citizenship, it offers ways to end backlogs in family-sponsored immigration, urges more staffing and improvements in immigration courts and added protections for immigrants who assert their labor rights. It also declares that members of same-sex couples should have the same opportunities to sponsor their partners for visas that others do.

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Obama: I’ll introduce my own immigration bill if Congress doesn’t move
29 Jan.`13 - President Barack Obama unveiled his vision for immigration reform in a speech on Tuesday afternoon in Las Vegas, Nev., telling Congress that he will send them his own bill and call for a vote if they don't move fast.

"If Congress is unable to move forward in a timely fashion, I will send up a bill based on my proposal and insist that they vote on it right away," Obama said to applause from students at Del Sol High School. "It looks like there's a genuine desire to get this done soon, and that's very encouraging," Obama said, mentioning a blueprint put forward by a bipartisan group of eight senators on Monday. "But this time action must follow." Obama's speech was the latest move in a chess match between the White House and some Republicans in Congress to craft an outline for reform that can both be enacted into law while meeting the expectataions of the growing population of Hispanic voters who now overwhelmingly favor Democrats.

Some Republicans want to support immigration reform in part to combat the party's demographic challenges, but the more involved the president is with the bill, the politically riskier it becomes to support it. In his speech, Obama laid out "markers" for reform, saying any comprehensive immigration bill must give most of the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants a chance to earn their citizenship gradually if they pay a fine, learn English and pass a background check. Immigrants would also have to get to "the back of the line," which means people who have already applied for green cards would have their applications processed first.

The president's bill would also include an employment verification system, more border security and a revamping of the legal immigration system to provide more visas for top graduates of U.S. universities and to reduce lengthy wait times for visas for relatives of U.S. citizens. The president mentioned the blueprint for reform laid out by senators including rising Republican star Marco Rubio of Florida and John McCain of Arizona, Obama's 2008 GOP presidential rival. The principles of that outline "are very much in line with the principles I’ve proposed and campaigned on for the last few years," Obama said. The senators pre-empted Obama's speech by a day to release a blueprint that differs from Obama's earlier immigration proposal in some respects.

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[WillowTree]

When John McCain tried to pass immigration Obama voted against it because the unions didn't want it.

 

[LilOlLady]

Obama gonna come up with his own plan if Congress don't...

Senators hopeful of comprehensive US immigration reform by summer
29 Jan, 2013, WASHINGTON: Influential US Senators hope to have a comprehensive immigration reform in place by this summer, which could legalise 11 million undocumented workers and address the issue of long wait for permanent residency.

"We have come together on a set of bipartisan principles for comprehensive immigration reforms that we hope can pass the Senate in an overwhelming and bipartisan fashion," Senator Charles Schumer said after he and a bi-partisan group of seven influential Senators came up with set of bipartisan principles for comprehensive immigration reform legislation. "It's our hope that these principles can be turned into legislation by March with the goal of passage out of the Senate by late spring or summer," Schumer, the No. 3 Democrat in the Senate, told reporters.

The plan, crafted by four Republicans and four Democrats, is comprised of four elements - creating a pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants, reforming the legal immigration system, setting up an effective employment verification system, and creating an improved process for admitting into the US valuable workers.

The White House welcomed the move on immigration and termed it as a big deal. "This is a big deal. This is an important development. This is in keeping with the principles the president has been espousing for a long time, in keeping with bipartisan efforts in the past and with the effort this president believes has to end in a law that he can sign," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters at his daily news conference.

Obama is scheduled to announce tomorrow his aspect of a comprehensive immigration policy at Las Vegas in Nevada. Schumer said that to prove to the American people that they are serious about permanently ending illegal immigration to the US, that will never put these individuals on a path to citizenship until they have fully secured the country's borders and combated the pattern of people overstaying their legal immigration visas. "This is a first step in what will continue to be difficult but achievable," Senator John McCain said.

MORE

See also:

A Better Immigration Plan
January 29, 2013 - President Obama hit the right notes when he made the case for overhauling the immigration system in a speech in Las Vegas on Tuesday. He spoke one day after a bipartisan group of eight senators released their own blueprint for a comprehensive reform bill, and the back-to-back events gave the odd sensation — rare during the Obama administration — of seeing Congress and the White House moving in more or less the same direction.[/b]

“Now is the time,” Mr. Obama said, noting that Washington was having a bipartisan moment on immigration not seen since George W. Bush was president and Senator Edward Kennedy was leading the push for reform. The president restated the familiar and still-sound principles behind an immigration overhaul: a more secure border and workplace; legalization for 11 million undocumented immigrants; and a modernized system of legal immigration that eliminates backlogs, reunites families and has enough visas for valued workers and entrepreneurs. He also gave a helpful reminder that it’s wrong to cast immigration as a battle of “them” and “us.” A false distinction, he said, because most of us used to be “them.”

The fiercest point of debate and the biggest obstacle to a bill, of course, is whether and how to get “them” — that is, 11 million undocumented immigrants — out of the shadows, free to live and work here legally and to become citizens if they wish. “It should be clear at the outset that there is a pathway to citizenship,” Mr. Obama said, stressing the “is.” An objectionable part of the senators’ blueprint is that it refuses to put undocumented immigrants on a path to permanent residency and citizenship until a host of border-enforcement actions is completed first.

Given existing immigration backlogs and the possibility of other administrative hurdles being placed in the way, any future path to citizenship could be so long and burdensome as to be all but imaginary. Mr. Obama, to his credit, made the citizenship path a central part of his plan and did not make it contingent on adding still more troops, border fencing and aerial drones.

Mr. Obama released his own list of immigration-reform principles separately on Tuesday, and it is far better than the plan put forward by the senators. Besides the forceful language on citizenship, it offers ways to end backlogs in family-sponsored immigration, urges more staffing and improvements in immigration courts and added protections for immigrants who assert their labor rights. It also declares that members of same-sex couples should have the same opportunities to sponsor their partners for visas that others do.

MORE

Related:

Obama: I’ll introduce my own immigration bill if Congress doesn’t move
29 Jan.`13 - President Barack Obama unveiled his vision for immigration reform in a speech on Tuesday afternoon in Las Vegas, Nev., telling Congress that he will send them his own bill and call for a vote if they don't move fast.

"If Congress is unable to move forward in a timely fashion, I will send up a bill based on my proposal and insist that they vote on it right away," Obama said to applause from students at Del Sol High School. "It looks like there's a genuine desire to get this done soon, and that's very encouraging," Obama said, mentioning a blueprint put forward by a bipartisan group of eight senators on Monday. "But this time action must follow." Obama's speech was the latest move in a chess match between the White House and some Republicans in Congress to craft an outline for reform that can both be enacted into law while meeting the expectataions of the growing population of Hispanic voters who now overwhelmingly favor Democrats.

Some Republicans want to support immigration reform in part to combat the party's demographic challenges, but the more involved the president is with the bill, the politically riskier it becomes to support it. In his speech, Obama laid out "markers" for reform, saying any comprehensive immigration bill must give most of the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants a chance to earn their citizenship gradually if they pay a fine, learn English and pass a background check. Immigrants would also have to get to "the back of the line," which means people who have already applied for green cards would have their applications processed first.

The president's bill would also include an employment verification system, more border security and a revamping of the legal immigration system to provide more visas for top graduates of U.S. universities and to reduce lengthy wait times for visas for relatives of U.S. citizens. The president mentioned the blueprint for reform laid out by senators including rising Republican star Marco Rubio of Florida and John McCain of Arizona, Obama's 2008 GOP presidential rival. The principles of that outline "are very much in line with the principles I’ve proposed and campaigned on for the last few years," Obama said. The senators pre-empted Obama's speech by a day to release a blueprint that differs from Obama's earlier immigration proposal in some respects.

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I did not agree with anything Obama said but those that are already here has to “get in line behind those waiting to enter legally.”