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.
IMHO, not only immigration next year but healthcare will still be unsettled and on the agenda too.
The America-hater building his voter army....
The WH can’t count on ACORN alone to get these illegals registered to vote in the 2010 elections!
They’ve got a political death wish.
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The death wish is for AMERICA, its real citizens, and its economy. When will the CONgress wake up and get rid of this Marxist plague upon America???
What if Obama and the Far Left took these 20m and as a prerequisite to citizenship they would have to agree to join the Obama civilian domestic military militia with express instructions to disarm private gun owners.
First it was the Stimulus Bill, then Healthcare, now amnesty for illegals? All the while unemployment continues to rise, he’s focusing on other things regardless of how unpopular they are. Seems like this guy is representing everything other than the American people.
When King Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid, Bwany Fwank, Boxer, Dodd, and Waxman are tared and feathered. And only then, in the meantime expect as total dictatorship soon.
That's okay, we've been doing some preparing too. We have our own version of that "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it" rule. And we can make this *very* personal.
That's okay, we've been doing some preparing too. We have our own version of that "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it" rule. And we can make this *very* personal.
You have hit the nail on the head.
The ads will go something like this: “With record unemployment, Congress is now making it harder for American citizens to compete....yada, yada..”.
Absolute Political suicide if they do, despite the naysayers...
With his monumental lack of success on Obamacare, Cap and Trade, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc., etc., etc. ... I can’t say I’m all that scared. He’s racking up the failures faster than I can count.
We were numerous enough to torpedo McCain and Bush last time around. We’ve been strong enough to torpedo Obama at almost every turn. Just another defeat in the making for El Presidente.
I don’t recall ever seeing a lame duck President 11 months into a first term before. Hold him off until Nov. 2010, and we’re home free.
SnakeDoc
this will be a tough one in an election year especially how he’s screwing up everything else so far..
You have to be freaking kidding me. Unemployment at 10.2% and they want to shove 12 million more illegals into the job market to take American jobs?
They are going to fail badly in all these steps.
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“instructions to disarm private gun owners.”
I’m about ready to put some “stuff” behind the drywall!
If they thought we threw a fit in 2007 when this was tried just wait until they see what happens when 20% of American’s are unemployed and they still want to do this!
The list, ping
“You have to be freaking kidding me. Unemployment at 10.2% and they want to shove 12 million more illegals into the job market to take American jobs?”
No. Just 12 million more to claim 99 weeks of unemployment benefits.
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