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Schumer, Graham Unveil Immigration Reform Blueprint (INCLUDES "PATH TO CITIZENSHIP")
Roll Call ^ | 2010-03-19 | Jennifer Bendery & Jessica Brady

Posted on 03/18/2010 11:15:45 PM PDT by rabscuttle385

Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) unveiled their bipartisan blueprint for comprehensive immigration reform Thursday, a move hailed by President Barack Obama as progress on an issue for which he has been criticized for ignoring.

“The American people deserve more than empty rhetoric and impractical calls for mass deportation. We urge the public and our colleagues to join our bipartisan efforts in enacting these reforms,” the Senators said in a Washington Post editorial posted online Thursday.

The Schumer-Graham outline entails four key components: a biometric Social Security identification card for employment verification; strengthened border security and interior law enforcement; a process for admitting temporary workers; and a controversial path toward citizenship for illegal immigrants currently living in the United States.

Under the proposal, employers would be allowed to hire illegal immigrants only if they were unsuccessful in recruiting Americans for open positions. Undocumented workers living in the country would have to pay fines and back taxes and perform community service in order to earn citizenship. They would also have to pass background checks and become proficient in English.

Obama called the blueprint “promising” and said it should be the basis for moving forward with legislation. But he stopped short of pledging to make immigration reform a reality in 2010, vowing only to “to do everything in my power to forge a bipartisan consensus this year.”

“My administration will be consulting further with the Senators on the details of their proposal, but a critical next step will be to translate their framework into a legislative proposal, and for Congress to act at the earliest possible opportunity,” Obama said.

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


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1 posted on 03/18/2010 11:15:45 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
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To: upchuck; AuntB; HiJinx; gubamyster; Arthur Wildfire! March; lmarie373; Abundy; missanne; ...

McCain and his lap dog must go!


2 posted on 03/18/2010 11:16:59 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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Undocumented workers living in the country would have to pay fines and back taxes and perform community service in order to earn citizenship.

Is this the scariest part of the whole deal, or am I crazy?

3 posted on 03/18/2010 11:18:59 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs ( I have nothing better to do than sit around all night watching a lunatic not turn into a werewolf.)
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To: rabscuttle385

that Graham is a pure mofo


4 posted on 03/18/2010 11:20:15 PM PDT by wardaddy (this is no way to run a nation, except into the ground)
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To: rabscuttle385

This is why Obamacare doesn’t cover illegals. They’ll figure out a way to make them all citizens, and that will insure they all get health coverage.


5 posted on 03/18/2010 11:22:13 PM PDT by ChocChipCookie (God to Obama: Don't think I'm not keepin' track. Brother.)
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To: LongElegantLegs

No, you’re not. IMO, ACORN and SEIU are recruiting new brownshirts!


6 posted on 03/18/2010 11:22:43 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: rabscuttle385

It SHOULD include a path leading back over the border...


7 posted on 03/18/2010 11:23:06 PM PDT by kik5150
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To: rabscuttle385

At this point, they have shown their colors on health care. They will do anything and break any rule to pass their sacred trifecta: health care, cap and trade, and amnesty. After that, they can get shellacked in three consecutive elections. It doesn’t matter. The dreary Moussolinis of the left will be back in force and have no real opposition.


8 posted on 03/18/2010 11:23:57 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: rabscuttle385

It is amnesty again. Nothing has changed.


9 posted on 03/18/2010 11:24:25 PM PDT by TigersEye (It's the Marxism, stupid! ... And they call themselves Progressives.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Well here we go...wasting no time before slamming the next thing at us....and if he can’t get the votes..and so far not one republican has co-sponsered this....will he use the “SLaughter Solution” again....don’t be surprised.


10 posted on 03/18/2010 11:25:09 PM PDT by caww
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and so far not one republican has co-sponsered this...

You're right. Lindsey Graham is NOT a Republican!

11 posted on 03/18/2010 11:25:58 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: TigersEye

He is merciless on the American people...Napolitano stopped building the wall this wekk so that’s a done deal...are we to become mexicaamerica? I am so tired of watching this country get taken over in every direction....there just seems not to be enough of us wanting to stop it. Just like with Roe vs Wade....once these things get passed they never go away....We are entering Hitler land!


12 posted on 03/18/2010 11:29:14 PM PDT by caww
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To: rabscuttle385

LOL....got me...hahahahaha!


13 posted on 03/18/2010 11:31:48 PM PDT by caww
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To: rabscuttle385

Btw....Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels, is part of the agenda to soften a country up for communism, so if I was an immigrant I’d be careful about owning any property....Bos agenda looks to be moving that direction in the long run.


14 posted on 03/18/2010 11:38:24 PM PDT by caww
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15 posted on 03/18/2010 11:39:09 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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Graham is taking McLame’s place after we get rid of McLame.

CRAP!


16 posted on 03/18/2010 11:42:42 PM PDT by hattend (The era of John McCain is over, the era of Ronald Reagan is back! Go Sarah Go!)
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To: caww

I don’t think we’re in Hitler Land yet but we are definitely on the doorstep of Stalin’s Soviet Union. Hmmm, is that really any better?


17 posted on 03/18/2010 11:48:30 PM PDT by TigersEye (It's the Marxism, stupid! ... And they call themselves Progressives.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Help us all. The nimwits are at it.


18 posted on 03/18/2010 11:48:52 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: musicman

More like; “here to steal your retirement.” And our children’s lives and grand children’s lives and great grand children’s lives.


19 posted on 03/18/2010 11:50:34 PM PDT by TigersEye (It's the Marxism, stupid! ... And they call themselves Progressives.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Either Graham needs to be purged from the Republican Party or I need to be purged from the party. I can’t belong to the same party as this Graham lowlife.


20 posted on 03/18/2010 11:56:11 PM PDT by Perchant
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