Posted on 11/13/2009 4:05:53 PM PST by markomalley
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday that the Obama administration will push for “immigration reform” by giving the estimated 14 million people who are in the United States illegally “fair pathway to earned legal status.”
“A tough and fair pathway to earned legal status will mandate that illegal immigrants meet a number of requirements—including registering, paying a fine, passing a criminal background check, fully paying all taxes and learning English,” Napolitano said Friday at a panel discussion at the liberal Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C.
“These are substantial requirements that will make sure this population gets right with the law,” Napolitano said. “It will help fix our broken system.”
Napolitano said the Obama administration is working to end the recession and put Americans back to work but said giving legal status to illegal aliens will “strengthen our economy.”
“Requiring illegal immigrants to register to earn legal status, as I discussed earlier, will strengthen our economy as these immigrants become full-paying taxpayers,” Napolitano said. “As labor leaders have made clear to me, immigration reform will be a boon to American workers.
“Think about it: unions will never achieve the best terms for workers when a large part of the workforce is illegal and operates in a shadow economy,” Napolitano said. “By contrast, the status quo not only hurts American workers, it also stifles potential opportunities to grow our economy.”
Napolitano said that she has seen a “major shift” in the immigration landscape, which the Obama administration hopes will make it easier for Congress to pass new immigration laws.
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The industrial unions are going away. Most unionized employees are government employees.
A couple of years before Bush tried to shove these illegals down our throats, the report was up to 30 million illegals in our country.
As the premeditated amnesty bill approached, the illegal numbers were intentionally dumbed down to, UP TO 18 million.
Crooked b@st@rds.
Definitely an enemy of the state. Nappy..please deport yourself.
OK, I have an idea, sue these *******s for wrecking the economy. All 536 of them. NOW!
Of course, they are the new Americans.
We are going to fight this tooth and nail. No way in hell it will pass in 2010 and it is too late in 2009. the GOP has to keep the Senate stalled for all of damn 2010 on healthcare to stop this amnesty sh*t.
This would not have even come up if the House medical vote had failed. Thanks Newt and Dede. We could have had one more vote from NY-23 on Obamacare.
We are going to fight this tooth and nail. No way in hell it will pass in 2010 and it is too late in 2009. the GOP has to keep the Senate stalled for all of damn 2010 on healthcare to stop this amnesty sh*t.
This would not have even come up if the House medical vote had failed. Thanks Newt and Dede. We could have had one more vote from NY-23 on Obamacare.
I’m sure Juan McCain will be first to reach across the aisle and co-sponsor the bill.
Sounds like .......THE KEYAN WANTS TO BECOME LEGAL !!
ping
If that is not bad enough, when he wins a second term, the Supreme court will be remade in his warped image. Churches will have to take crosses down from the outside of the Church, so not to offend anybody....etc etc etc
Don’t walk, run with this Napolitano.
14 million more hands out.
But like the piss poorly planned Cash for Clunkers program, -10nobama and his brilliant aides prolly won't think of that.
IMHO, we need to completely stop ALL illegal immigration first, then deal with the ones that are here.
This is about the 2010 election.
This is gonna go over like a lead brick with the American people ...
14 million more Earned Income Tax Creditees voting lifetime Democrat as thanks and payback!
HF
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