Posted on 02/16/2013 3:14:18 PM PST by jazusamo
The Obama administration has prepared a draft immigration overhaul plan that would allow illegal immigrants to obtain green cards within eight years, according to a Saturday report in USA Today.
The newspaper reported that it had obtained the draft from an anonymous administration source. The White House has not confirmed the details to be correct.
USA Today reported that the draft proposal would create a new visa open to the nation's estimated 11 million illegal residents.
The "Lawful Prospective Immigrant" visa -- which would allow a holder to work and travel -- could be obtained after an applicant undergoes a criminal background check, gets fingerprinted and pays fees.
After eight years under this new visa, the immigrant could then apply to become a legal permanent resident, as green card holders are officially known. Currently, most green card holders can apply to become full U.S. citizens after five years.
The White House is contemplating new requirements for formerly illegal immigrants to get the green card, including paying back taxes and English and civics tests currently only required for citizenship applicants.
The draft also increases funding for Border Patrol agents, adds immigration judges and expands the use of the E-Verify system by which employers confirm the legal status of prospective and current employees.
The draft plan did not flesh out how to deal with future immigration, USA Today reported.
It has been widely known that Democrats want illegal immigrants to eventually be able to become full citizens. The exact balance of rights and responsibilities Obama would seek had so far not been known.
A secretive House group is said to be close to its own proposal. Sources say the group includes Democratic Reps. Luis Gutierrez (Ill.), Xavier Becerra (Calif.) and Zoe Lofgren (Calif.), and Republican Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), John Carter (Texas) and Sam Johnson (Texas).
A Senate "Gang of Eight" late last month released its own immigration framework with a path to citizenship
The group consists of Sens. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).
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Legalizing 40 (11 million + family) million illegal aliens will crush the United States.
LA County spends 600 million a year on welfare now.....
The Census Bureau reports that there were 52 million Hispanics in this country in 2011.
It would be nice if we had a government and politicians who weren’t afraid of the Mexican Nationals. Unfortunately, we’ve got a severe shortage of testosterone in this country these days. It’s all yellow-bellied cowardice from here on out.
Is it emerging from his anal orifice?
His staff didn’t write this. Some liberal think tank has had this sitting around for years, just like most of their liberal agenda.
Always sounds good at first, but you know that within moments of being signed, a left-leaning Court would overturn it over some kind of lack of representation or 2nd-class citizen argument. The illegals would be officially legalized and voting within the very next election. Game over.
Texas becomes a blue-state, and the USA comes under a one-party, statist rule for decades, just like it was for so long in Mexico (although it’s arguable getting at that point already, with the Dems and GOP-E colluding like they do for the benefit of the ruling-class establishment). Just what they want, to finally destroy the remaining power and voice of the pro-Constitution conservatives that they regard as such an impedement to their utopian designs.
Amnesty will be America’s end.
Yep. I agree, it would be the end of this country!
The Democrats would never agree to it. It’s just a way to show their hypocrisy. Not that it’s difficult.
Just think of the wonderful opportunity for them to expand the government to handle the job - I predict it will become an arm of DHS and they will all be armed and they will have to buy many more weapons and lots of ammunition to handle the demand...
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