Amnesty legislation is currently being drafted according to Obozo at his Mexico press conference in August, and the bills will be unleashed against America in 2010.
“I would anticipate that before the year is out we will have draft legislation along with sponsors ... when we come back next year, that we should be in a position to start acting.”
More verbatim comments below:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/world/americas/11prexy.text.html?_r=1&ref=americas&pagewanted=all
Published: August 10, 2009
Following is a transcript of the news conference held on Monday by President Obama, President Felipe Calderón of Mexico, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada in Guadalajara, Mexico, as released by the White House.
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Now, I’ve got a lot on my plate, and it’s very important for us to sequence these big initiatives in a way where they don’t all just crash at the same time. And what we’ve said is in the fall when we come back, we’re going to complete health care reform. We still have to act on energy legislation that has passed the House, but the Senate, I’m sure, is going to have its own ideas about how it wants to approach it. We still have financial regulatory reform that has to get done because we don’t want a situation in which irresponsible actions in the global financial markets can precipitate another crisis. That’s a pretty big stack of bills.
Fortunately, what we’ve been able to do is to begin meeting with both Democrats and Republicans from the House and the Senate. Secretary Napolitano is coordinating these discussions, and I would anticipate that before the year is out we will have draft legislation along with sponsors potentially in the House and the Senate who are ready to move this forward, and when we come back next year, that we should be in a position to start acting.
Now, am I going to be able to snap my fingers and get this done? No. This is going to be difficult; it’s going to require bipartisan cooperation. There are going to be demagogues out there who try to suggest that any form of pathway for legalization for those who are already in the United States is unacceptable. And those are fights that I’d have to have if my poll numbers are at 70 or if my poll numbers are at 40. That’s just the nature of the U.S. immigration debate.
But ultimately, I think the American people want fairness. And we can create a system in which you have strong border security, we have an orderly process for people to come in, but we’re also giving an opportunity for those who are already in the United States to be able to achieve a pathway to citizenship so that they don’t have to live in the shadows, and their children and their grandchildren can have a full participation in the United States. So I’m confident we can get it done.
I remember. However, they are full-speed-ahead at freeing illegals by exec order and rule changes. With or without congress, illegals are being set free.