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White House to Begin Push on Immigration Overhaul in 2010
New York Times ^ | November 13, 2009 | Julia Preston

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; agenda; aliens; amnesty; bho44; bhocira; bhoillegals; democrats; immigrantlist; napolitano; obama; squattersupportsquad
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To: mainepatsfan
Do the Dems really want this as a burning issue heading into the mid terms?

Why would the Democrats care if every voter except their blind loyalists who would NEVER vote for anyone unless he had a "D" behind his name is furious and determined to throw every last one of them out of office? Once the illegals, their relatives, and anyone who can get here prior to the amnesty is sworn in and registered as a Democrat to vote in the '10 election, they will outnumber us by such a margin, it will not matter if we ever hold another election.

41 posted on 11/13/2009 10:56:17 AM PST by penowa
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To: Scotsman will be Free
Geez I hate democraps. Everything they do ruins our country. ARRRRRRRG!!!!!

I expect our RINOs will be right with them.

42 posted on 11/13/2009 10:58:26 AM PST by usurper (Spelling or grammatical errors in this post can be attributed to the LA City School System)
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To: GreaterSwiss
Commandante Zippy is out of his freakin’ mind if he thinks this crap will stand. NO! NO! NO! NO! A MILLION TIMES NO!
43 posted on 11/13/2009 11:12:40 AM PST by JPG (Obama's plan for America...today, Labor Unions...tomorrow, Labor Camps.)
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To: GreaterSwiss

Good. I hope Obama begins his push on November 3rd.


44 posted on 11/13/2009 11:13:27 AM PST by skeeter
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To: reaganaut1; Fetid Facts; La Lydia; Scanian; stephenjohnbanker; Condor51; Grampa Dave; Landru; ...
Everyday in every way Napolitano never fails to show her stupidity.

EXHIBIT ONE “Let me emphasize this,” Napolitano said. “We will never have fully effective law enforcement or national security as long as so many millions remain in the shadows.”

Duh.

EXHIBIT TWO She also said (gag), "The most important thing is to bring the Ft Hood shooter to justice."

Duh.

45 posted on 11/13/2009 11:21:01 AM PST by Liz (Obama's the best thing that happened to the Republican Party in a long time.)
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To: All
American Patrol Report---Oct 25, 2009---Zetas and Aztecs at work - should we integrate this culture with ours?

In his groundbreaking book, Wakeup Call from Mexico, Wilson Beck describes how the dark side of Mexico stretches back to the days of the Aztecs when hundreds of thousands of people were sacrificed and eaten each year. He says today many young men in Mexico are enamored with the idea of being descendants of the Aztecs.

Now, according to the Houston Chronicle, the brutal savage Zetas, known for beheading and dismembering their enemies, are tightening their grip on an area bordering Southern Texas.

Critics say our CIA and State Department are well aware of the dark side of Mexico and regularly brief U.S. presidents on the reality south of the border.

Despite this, President Bush and now President Obama have been secretly working to integrate the US and Mexico into a common political and economic unit.

“It is unfortunate that Mexico got off to such a bad start,” said Glenn Spencer of the American Patrol Report,” but it is wrong to sacrifice the United States of America to correct problems south of the border.”

He said while Mexicans are being besieged, which is nothing new for them, Americans are being betrayed by a government that refuses to protect them.

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Critics say our CIA and the US State Department are well aware of the dark side of Mexico and regularly brief US presidents on the reality south of the border. Despite this, Pres Bush and now Pres Obama have been secretly working to integrate the US and Mexico into a common political and economic unit.

ANALYSIS A common political and economic unit, my Aunt Tilly. The ultimate goal is to marginalize and subjugate US citizens, to deicmate American culture, and install illegal Third World savages as the pre-eminent cultural norm. The savage criminal sub-groups mentioned above await their orders for the Third World.

Our govt is colluding with Third World governments :

(1) to establish a permanent Dem majority,

(2) to establish a separate latino nation within the US subject to foreign governments,

(3) to hand over parts of the USA to Mexico to silence their whining over past history,

(4) to effect massive transfers of US tax dollars to The Third World,

(5) billions in foreign aid extortion,

(6) to hype increase the flow of latinos to the United States to form voting blocs,

(7) to take US jobs from US citziens for an exploding latino population,

(8) to suckup job skills that latinos are then expected to repatriate back to Mexico and the Third World,

(9) to subjugate US citizens to serve the needs of Mexico and the Third World.

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Every candidate running for federal office should be compelled to answer the following........

(A) How many more immigrants can we absorb? (B) Is there a cut-off point where the immigration you favor becomes damaging to our nation? (C) Do you believe in putting any limits whatsoever on immigration to the US?

46 posted on 11/13/2009 11:37:12 AM PST by Liz (Obama's the best thing that happened to the Republican Party in a long time.)
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To: Liz

“EXHIBIT ONE “Let me emphasize this,” Napolitano said. “We will never have fully effective law enforcement or national security as long as so many millions remain in the shadows.””

Right on!

Deport them all!!


47 posted on 11/13/2009 11:37:12 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
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To: rightwingextremist1776

“Blood in the streets....”

Very possible.


48 posted on 11/13/2009 11:38:33 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
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To: 444Flyer; All

“No. Just 12 million more to claim 99 weeks of unemployment benefits.”

That 12 million figure has been floated since 2001. Bush.....the # 1 advocate of illegal immigration in the USA pushed it to 20-22 million.


49 posted on 11/13/2009 11:41:32 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
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To: GreaterSwiss

The whole freaking administration can all just drop dead!


50 posted on 11/13/2009 11:47:54 AM PST by Joan912 (I can't operate on this failure)
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To: Liz
Jail time for not buying the Health Insurance policy THEY want. DEATH PANELS. Higher taxes - bordering on confiscation for 'the rich'. Setting Executives salary and compensation. Higher energy costs thanks to Crap & Tax, DISREGARDING the Constitution, collusion between Holder and Black Thugs. And THEN pushing the 'legalizing' of 30 million criminal illegals down our thoats.

So from the Marxist Kenyan pretender-in-chief down to the lowest commie slug in his administration, they better quit pushing and tread carefully. They aren't Royalty that can RULE by fiat, and the citizens are close to 'Go Popeye' on them.

"I stands all I can stands. I can't stands no more."
It's like they want 'something' to happen. Like the ahole in 8th grade that keeps poking you in the chest, saying 'come on'.

I'm logging off, play my guitar and calm down.

51 posted on 11/13/2009 11:53:46 AM PST by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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James Dinkins to become the Director of the Office of ICE.


52 posted on 11/13/2009 12:14:47 PM PST by anglian
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Exactly right, and I’m so sick and tired of even good people falling for the “12 million” number. We on the front lines in Arizona know they’ve been quoting that tired number at least since 2001, like you said.

And with the chain migration and gang members they’re going to welcome with open arms... goodbye any remnants of the U.S. we knew and loved.


53 posted on 11/13/2009 12:46:25 PM PST by Borax Queen
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To: broncobilly

“That is not a death wish.
That is his only chance for reelection.
That is why it is the next thing on his agenda.”

Bingo! If you can’t get the USA citizenry to follow you, import enough 3rd worlders!


54 posted on 11/13/2009 1:16:14 PM PST by AuntB (If Al Qaeda grew drugs & burned our forests instead of armed Mexican Cartels would anyone notice?)
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To: Borax Queen

“And with the chain migration and gang members they’re going to welcome with open arms... goodbye any remnants of the U.S. we knew and loved.”

Even many FReepers don’t know the destruction illegals have caused. They are concentrated in the west and the south.


55 posted on 11/13/2009 3:06:27 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
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To: Liz

Thanks for the ping, Liz.


56 posted on 11/13/2009 6:14:32 PM PST by GOPJ (ObamaCare - slush fund scam that would make Bernie Madoff blush.)
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To: Logical me

You can add an equal number of Pubbies....to that list!


57 posted on 11/13/2009 6:23:23 PM PST by Osage Orange (Obama's a self-made man who worships his own creator...............)
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To: SnakeDoctor
Hope you are correct.....

We shall see....

58 posted on 11/13/2009 6:28:10 PM PST by Osage Orange (Obama's a self-made man who worships his own creator...............)
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To: stephenjohnbanker
Agreed.....

Lived in SoCal....

Now in OK....I've seen what happened...and know what can happen.

Many here are clueless.......

59 posted on 11/13/2009 6:31:50 PM PST by Osage Orange (Obama's a self-made man who worships his own creator...............)
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To: rightwingextremist1776

Will we ever really take a stand and say enough is enough?


60 posted on 11/13/2009 8:48:49 PM PST by Britt0n
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