Posted on 11/13/2009 9:30:27 AM PST by reaganaut1
The Obama administration will insist on measures to give legal status to an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in legislation to overhaul the immigration system that it will begin to push early next year, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Friday.
In an address at the Center for American Progress, a liberal policy group in Washington, Ms. Napolitano sought to dispel any notion that the administration — with health care, energy and other major issues crowding its agenda — might postpone the most contentious piece of an immigration overhaul until after midterm elections next November.
Laying out the administration’s bottom line, she said it will argue for a “three-legged stool” that includes tougher enforcement laws against illegal immigrants and the people who hire them and streamlining the system for legal immigration, but also what she called a “tough and fair pathway to earned legal status.”
With unemployment surging over 10 percent and Congress wrestling with health care, advocates on all sides of the immigration debate had started to doubt that President Obama would keep to his pledge to take on the divisive issue of illegal immigration in the first months of 2010.
Congress should be ready to move forward on immigration, Ms. Napolitano said, because the administration had made a “fundamental change” in security at the border and in cracking down on employers hiring illegal immigrants. She said the Border Patrol had increased its forces by more than 20,000 officers and more than 600 miles of border fence were completed, both milestones set by Congress.
“Let me emphasize this,” she said. “We will never have fully effective law enforcement or national security as long as so many millions remain in the shadows.”
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Right b4 the election...hmmmm
prepare for Obama to give away more of the farm.
BOHICA! The don’t need illegals in the health care bill because they will be legal! As if we didn’t know this...
prepare for Obama to give away more of the farm.
prepare for Obama to give away more of the farm.
Immigration reform while the economy’s in the toilet, and unemployment’s in double digits? They’ve got a political death wish.
Geez I hate democraps. Everything they do ruins our country. ARRRRRRRG!!!!!
Do the Dems really want this as a burning issue heading into the mid terms?
This the recipe for the takeover. They will have an awful lot of trouble with Step #3, but they are preparing the ground as best they can prior to making that big leap.
“White House to Begin Push on Immigration Overhaul in 2010”
Oh brother, not now!!!! You can drive a semi up our rectums NOW with the stuff “O” has already forced up our butts! Where is it going to end?
with the effective unemployment rate over 22 % (shadowstats.com).....in an election year.....
LOTS OF LUCK, Sparky!
This will make the health care debate look like a walk on the beach.
heh
Let’s see what Obama’s approval numbers are like when he starts this crap again. I’m sure Dems running for reelection will love this.
If he thought the “Tea Baggers” were something “extremist” what till he sees what happens went he tries to push this down our throats.....
Blood in the streets....
Anyway, I find this interesting:
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Friday
I supposed there are more pressing matters in DHS than this topic. Has DHS become a branch of INS? Well, a flaming liberal running DHS is a joke to begin with.
That is not a death wish.
That is his only chance for reelection.
That is why it is the next thing on his agenda.
If the Healthcare bill won’t take effect until 2013, will Amnesty begin in 2013, too.
Probably not, Bammy is counting on the 10 million new Mexican votes who will make the Democrats a permanent political construct.
This is to insulate power, nothing more.
We are already overwhelmed and this will cement our plunge to 3rd World status so Liberals can keep the “welfare-for-play” politics of entitlements-for-votes to keep people dependent and in the pocket of Government.
The same people who push multiculturalism (no need for English, American history or assimilation) are doing this to keep ethnic ghettos and total dependence on Government to keep them fed, housed, educated and medically provided for.
It is a trap, but irresisitable to most 3rd World people who having clean, running water and food is a step up from their homeland.
We need to stop this.
This the recipe for the takeover. They will have an awful lot of trouble with Step #3, but they are preparing the ground as best they can prior to making that big leap.
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Corrected...
If the Healthcare bill won’t take effect until 2013, will Amnesty begin in 2013, too?
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