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 ...
So if I commit a crime and I pick enough vegetables, my crime is erased?
Why don’t these perjurious traitors just call it “The Highway To Hell!”
That is the only plank of the Communist Manifesto that the Democrats are opposed to. They want to confiscate from the citizens to give to the immigrants/illegal aliens because they correctly believe those aliens will be willing parasites and sign onto the Marxist agenda.
These bastards are keeping us busy fighting all this cr@p they’re trying to ram down our throats in their blatant attempt to destroy this country.
Can someone explain to me why Graham wants immigration reform so bad? Does he have a male Latin lover who needs citizenship so they can marry in Vermont?
Oh really...rather like the way they’ve used the black people for all these years as they have. I hate how the democrates have kept the black people in check. They would have come along alot further and not been so dependant on the system, they stole alot of honor and pride from the black people that otherwise would have been for so many...Shapton and Jackson had a lot to do with that as well.
Probably more Faschists like if you narrow it down...any or all are bad for us...Never thought I’d miss my country as I do at this hour...it goes right to ones soul! Oh gee not spelling my best...it’s late.
Obama did say if he got over this healthcare bump the rest would be downhill all the way.
Stupid Lindsey is helping the Zero to become a dictator.
Leftist politics forever, after socialized medicine, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and cap and trade officially become law!
Public Obamancare and massive amnesty for illegals are the two faces of a big dhimmyrat’s plan to hijack and own/destroy US democracy...
Illegals=new owned(bought) dhimorat voters/militias
Graham and other dhimmyrat-likes know that they are fighting for their political life...If conservatives wan ,as it should be likely in a free society(with fair elections) , Graham and hese kinds know that they would be done!
Conservatives ,ie sensible americans,are ALSO and even more fighting for their lives AND for USA(that’s the difference)
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Important find! The old fart thinks he has the primary in the bag, I guess. Hayworth now has something to clobber him with.
(Graham doesn't work with the socialists. He works FOR the socialists.)
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I thought the sen azzwipe said that if they move forward with zerocare that “it would poison the well” and void any future bipartisanship.
And here he is 2 days before the destruction of America, ready to bend over for more.
I heard yesterday on Cavuto that illegal aliens ARE ‘covered’ under Obamacare.
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