Posted on 06/04/2009 11:49:50 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Reid wants immigration bill this year By: Manu Raju June 4, 2009 02:12 PM EST
Just in case you thought the Senate’s schedule was already stuffed with fierce battles, the chamber’s top Democrat said he wants to take up comprehensive immigration reform this year, opening a new front on a divisive issue that sparked a roiling national debate two summers ago.
Passing immigration reform is “going to happen this session,” Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), referring to the 111th Congress. “But I want it this year if at all possible.”
At a press conference with Hispanic leaders touting the Supreme Court nomination of the Sonia Sotomayor, Reid said that he wants Congress to pass a bill with tougher border security measures, improved employer sanctions, a guest-worker program and a path for citizenship to the country’s illegal immigrants — a policy critics have called "amnesty."
“We have to have a pathway for legalization,” Reid said. “I believe what we need to do is have penalties, fines, I think they have to learn English, stay out of trouble, pay their taxes, and then they don’t go to the end of the line, they go to the back of the line. But at least it keeps them so that they are not subject to arrest and that they are more productive than they are.”
In 2007, the last time the Senate took up comprehensive immigration reform, senators overwhelmingly rejected comprehensive immigration after a heated debate that was as much about regional differences as it was about political philosophy.
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we already have pathways to legalization. I read about mass swearing in ceremonies of new Democrats all the time.
www.numbersusa.com
You can fax Congress for free plus they provide vcanned letters, phone numbers etc. Sign up and check it every week or so.
Unemployment at 9.25 and heading to probably 13% or more. We have a good shot at making sure this does not happen.
Allowing 30 million illegals to vote (Democrat) will end conservatism in the U.S. for 100 years. It’s that stark. Too bad conservatives are such cowards.
They are forcing so much because of one thing...2010
The longer this is delayed, the better for us.
How hard is that to understand?
“we already have pathways to legalization. I read about mass swearing in ceremonies of new Democrats all the time.”
Yes, over 2 million PER YEAR allowed in legally now.
These figures do not generally include ‘refugees’.
Some of the DAILY work of USCIS according to their own document:
* Conduct 135,000 national security background checks
* process 30,000 applications for immigrant benefits
* Issue 7,000 permanent resident cards (green cards -PER DAY)
* Welcome 2100 new citizens. PER DAY
* Welcome 3500 new permanent residents. PER DAY
More than 1 million people became citizens in 2008, with 780,000 taking the oath of allegiance in the first 10 months, according to preliminary figures from the Department of Homeland Security. In 2007, 660,477 people were granted U.S. citizenship.
Leading countries of birth of new citizens were:
Mexico (122,258), India (46,871), Philippines (38,830), China (33,134) and Vietnam (27,921)
Largest number of people naturalizing lived in:
California (181,684), New York (73,676) and Florida (54,563).
SOURCE: Office of Immigration Statistics, Department of Homeland Security
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/WestVolusia/wvlHEAD03WEST012209.htm
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hispanics made up nearly half of the more than 1 million people who became U.S. citizens last year, according to a Hispanic advocacy group. The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials said the number of Latinos who became Americans in fiscal year 2008 more than doubled over the previous year, to 461,317. That’s nearly half of the record 1,046,539 new citizens overall in 2008, a 58 percent increase from 2007. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gQKI-mUtzRTYIm7MjslLxEoz2zVgD97DFPI01
Study: Illegal Immigrants Having More Kids In US Associated Press ^ | April 14, 2009
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/money/19175382/detail.html
Growing numbers of children of illegal immigrants are being born in this country, and they are nearly twice as likely to live in poverty than those with American-born parents...
Overall, illegal immigrants’ children account for one of every 15 students in kindergarten through 12th grade. In 2008, California had the most illegal immigrants at 2.7 million, double its 1990 number, followed by Texas, Florida, New York and New Jersey.
“In the next eight years, the violent collection of criminal drug cartels could overwhelm the state and establish de facto control over broad regions of northern Mexico,” McCaffrey’s report said. “A failure by the Mexican political system to curtail lawlessness and violence could result in a surge of millions of refugees crossing the U.S. border.”
http://www.star-telegram.com/state_news/story/1245213.htm
We already do. Check the current U.S. laws nitwit!
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How about a pathway back to their own damn country?
We already have laws conserning this. Enforce them now or leave office. Enforce all of them.
They were supposed to do that stuff in the first place and they didn't. They thumbed their noses at us and called US racists.
To hell with them!
” “We have to have a pathway for legalization,” Reid said. “
Uh, no, we don’t. The American people have already spoken on this issue. And, yet, the LibTards want to bring it back...as if we were wrong (or stupid?).
Please let your Senators and Congress Critters know how you feel about this issue. Tell them to enforce the laws already on the books, deport the illegals, and deny services to them. Remove their perceived incentive to stay, and they will leave.
It’s time to take back the country, before the anointed one and his minions PC us right into extinction.
That’s fine, Harry, just so long as we can send all the illegals to your state first.
He’s tag teaming the Sotomayer nomination momentum with “comprehensive immigration reform” for illegals and will be painting the Republican’s as racists against the Latin community. The enablers in the MSM will, of course, play along dutifully.
“...and then they don’t go to the end of the line, they go to the back of the line.”
What the hell is the difference?
Time is running short, Reid, get all you all can get before then....
“At a press conference with Hispanic leaders touting the Supreme Court nomination of the Sonia Sotomayor, Reid said that he wants Congress to pass a bill with tougher border security measures, improved employer sanctions, a guest-worker program and a path for citizenship to the country’s illegal immigrants — a policy critics have called “amnesty.””
Tougher border security measures, Good
Improved employer sanctions, Good
A guest-worker program, Good
A path for citizenship, Good.
I agree with all of this. Now all illegal immigrants have to do is go home, apply for citizenship and once approved come back.
“We have to have a pathway for legalization,” Reid said. “I believe what we need to do is have penalties, fines, I think they have to learn English, stay out of trouble, pay their taxes, and then they don’t go to the end of the line, they go to the back of the line. But at least it keeps them so that they are not subject to arrest and that they are more productive than they are.”
Let’s NOT forget....it is NOT just Harry Reid and the Democrats....there are PLENTY OF RHINOs who want the EXACT same thing...including Fred Thompson, Sarah Palin and others.
NO amnesty of ANY kind for ANY illegal aliens...NOT (”well, not) “full”, NOT (”well, not) “blanket”, not earned, no paths, and NO touchback schemes!!!
Attrition through enforcement. That’s it!
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