CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Obama urges Congress not to put off immigration reform
But lawmakers are in no rush to tackle a controversial issue that has broad economic and social implications.
By By Gail Russell Chaddock | Staff writer/ June 25, 2009 edition
WASHINGTON
President Obama Thursday called for some “heavy lifting” on immigration reform on Capitol Hill, but there’s no move there to rush into it.
With energy, healthcare, and financial regulation on a fast track, there’s little running room for an issue that has baffled lawmakers for the past three years. But for president and a critical mass of interest groups heavily invested in comprehensive reform, even a symbolic stake in the ground is a start.
“The consensus is that despite our inability to get this passed over the last several years, the American people still want to see a solution,” Mr. Obama said after a bipartisan meeting with House and Senate members.
“We’ve got a responsible set of leaders sitting around the table who want to actively get something done and not put it off until a year, two years, three years, five years from now, but to start working on this thing now,” he said.
PELOSI , LIKE FEINSTEIN, HAS LONG ILLEGALLY HIRED ILLEGALS. SHE USES “CHEAP” MEXICAN LABOR FOR HER $20 MILLION ST. HELENA, NAPA WINERY. FEINSTEIN AT HER S.F. HOTEL!
PELOSI HAS LONG VOWED TO SABOTAGE AMERICAN’S SECURITY ON BEHALF OF ILLEGALS AND THE MEXICAN INVASION AND OCCUPATION. SHE HAS VOWED TOTAL AMNESTY, CHAIN MIGRATION, WHICH COULD DOUBLE THE 38 MILLION ILLEGALS HERE, NO WALL, NO E-VERIFY, NO ICE ENFORCEMENT, NO ENFORCEMENT OF EXISTING LAWS MAKING IT ILLEGAL TO HIRE ILLEGALS, AS WELL AS NO ENGLISH ONLY (MEXICANS HATE TO SPEAK ENGLISH) AND NO ID T VOTE FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF ILLEGALS VOTING FOR HISPANDERING POLITICIANS, LIKE BARACK OBAMA!
Pressed on the issue at a briefing today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that “the plan has always been for the Senate to go first.”
The Senate passed immigration reform in 2006, but efforts bogged down in 2007 and 2008. House Democrats, who all face voters every two years, want to be assured that a plan can pass the Senate, before taking what is for many a tough vote.
White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said at a Monitor Breakfast Thursday that one of the reasons the president called a meeting with lawmakers is to keep a focus on the issue because there isn’t yet a majority to pass comprehensive legislation.
“The Congressional Hispanic Caucus and immigration groups have all asked for a meeting because the votes aren’t there,” he said. “If the votes were there, you wouldn’t need to have the meeting, you’d go to a roll call.”
“If it doesn’t happen in the next two months, I don’t think that that means that it doesn’t happen between now and 2010,” he added.
But the administration isn’t waiting on Congress to take steps to ease barriers to legal immigration.
For the foreign nationals lined up for news about their citizenship applications, the process is about to get easier. Within the next 90 days, those updates will be coming by e-mail, text message, or online, the president announced at today’s immigration summit.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has also cleared up much of the backlog of immigration background checks, and the famously opaque US Citizenship and Immigration Services Office will soon be “much more efficient, much more transparent, much more user-friendly than it has been in the past,” Obama added.
“My administration is fully behind an effort to achieve comprehensive immigration reform,” he said.
HISPANDERING FOR THE ILLEGALS’ ILLEGAL VOTES AND TO SERVICE EMPLOYERS OF ILLEGALS. 47% OF THOSE EMPLOYED IN LOS ANGELES ARE ILLEGALS WITH STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS. THAT CITY PAYS OUT $40 MILLION, YES MILLION PER MONTH IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS!
DON’T BUY THE CRAP BELOW. THEY’RE ONLY PULLING THE SAME THING THEY DID IN 1986. THERE EXIST LAWS TO PROTECT AMERICAN FROM BECOMING MEXICO’S WELFARE STATE, AND NOT ONE IS ENFORCED. IT’S ALL CON JOB TO SELL US ON HANDING OVER MORE OF THE NATION TO NARCOMEX, FOR “CHEAP” LABOR THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS ENDS UP PAYING FOR!
That reform agenda, as outlined in today’s meeting, includes: tightening borders, cracking down on employers who use illegal workers in order to drive down wages, and a path to legal status for the “undocumented workers who are here.”
Conspicuous for its absence is emphasis on an expanded guest-worker program – a top priority for some US businesses and a fixture in the last immigration-reform drive.
“The White House meeting today is intended as political theater – a bone being thrown to the pro-amnesty groups to demonstrate the White House’s commitment to amnesty, even though they don’t have the votes to pass it,” says Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which promotes stricter controls on immigration.
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