Posted on 03/17/2009 2:29:42 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Hispanic Democrats will have their first West Wing meeting with President Obama on Wednesday morning to discuss immigration reform, according to Democratic sources.
The meeting is the first face-to-face sit-down between Obama and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) since the president was sworn in. Some in the CHC have recently expressed frustration that Obama has not talked more about immigration in his first two months in office.
Immigration reform is front-and-center on the group’s agenda.
CHC is eager to hear the president’s ideas and proposals for tackling immigration reform, not only regarding a comprehensive reform bill that could provide a pathway to citizenship for millions of undocumented workers but also as it relates to rolling back Bush administration policies of raiding workplaces and detaining and deporting thousands of illegal workers.
CHC members came away from a recent meeting in the Capitol with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano — a day after her Senate confirmation hearing — very encouraged that the workplace-raids policy would be fully reviewed and possibly altered.
Yet, CHC has expressed frustration that Obama has not yet gotten the message on how damaging the raids are to Hispanic communities across the country.
CHC has made the raids and their human cost the new focus of its immigration reform push, although a comprehensive reform bill remains very much a priority for the group, and one that it is encouraging Obama to push.
Hispanic Democrats are continuing their nationwide tour of cities where raids have been conducted to drum up public support for curtailing the practice. During an event in San Francisco earlier this month, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called the raids “un-American" and spoke out on the need for comprehensive immigration reform.
Obambi wants all the redistribution he’s engineering to go to Negroes — not those brown people.
Bamster wants to melt the congressional switchboard it seems.
Not true. If obama can gin up the gross number and the percentage of hispanics voting for him, he will need correspondingly fewer whites to vote for him. He intends to cement this in before the next election. No doubt in my mind.
Nancy Pelosi is un-American, and will be dealt with at the Treason Trials.
well, looks like they are about to receive the broken promise treatment that they deserve. Where is the anglo caucus?
More madness. We will have to melt the phones down and go to our local Congress critters offices.
Current CHC members
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Hispanic_Caucus
* Joe Baca (CA-43) (D)
* Xavier Becerra (CA-31) (D)
* Dennis Cardoza (CA-18) (D)
* Jim Costa (CA-20) (D)
* Henry Cuellar (TX-28) (D)
* Raul Grijalva (AZ-07) (D)
* Luis V. Gutierrez (IL-04) (D)
* Ben Ray Luján (NM-03) (D)
* Senator Bob Menendez (NJ-D)
* Grace Napolitano (CA-38) (D)
* Solomon Ortiz (TX-27) (D)
* Ed Pastor (AZ-04) (D)
* Pedro Pierluisi (PR-At large) (D)
* Silvestre Reyes (TX-16) (D)
* Ciro Rodriguez (TX-23) (D)
* Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) (D)
* Gregorio Sablan (MP-At large) (I)
* Linda T. Sánchez (CA-39) (D)
* José Serrano (NY-16) (D)
* Albio Sires (NJ-13) (D)
With torches and pitchforks!!
Of course we would be reading the same story if treason-bag McCain had won.
True point....unfortunately McCain is just as pro-illegal/anti-American as Obama. McCain would be meeting with the same Hispanic Ku Klux Klan congressional members.
Unfortunately....both major party candidates were treasonous on the illegal alien issue
awwwzz geeeeez, dagnabitt, can’t we savor the moment? (/archie bunker) I hearz ya.
Penny Wise and Disgusting
(administration plan for private insurance for Vets)
JINSA | March 17, 2009
Posted on 03/17/2009 2:05:36 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2208557/posts
So only hispanic dems have a seat at the immigration “reform” table? What about the rest of Americans who are affected by it?
More Worthy of Health Care: Disabled War Vets or Illegal Aliens?
(Zero’s diss to America)
CFP | John Lillpop
Posted on 03/17/2009 8:57:07 AM PDT by bestintxas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2208320/posts
We don't need immigration reform, we need deportation reform.
Ping!
Tell us again how immigration is NOT only about hispanics and hispandering to them?
Getting an amnesty for 30 million criminal illegal alien border and immigration law violators is “is front-and-center on the group’s agenda.” Nothing more.
They will be supported by the current communist administration so the amnestied illegal aliens will vote for the current communist administration.
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