Posted on 01/12/2013 6:40:30 PM PST by kristinn
WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to push Congress to move quickly in the coming months on an ambitious overhaul of the immigration system that would include a path to citizenship for most of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country, senior administration officials and lawmakers said last week.
Mr. Obama and Senate Democrats will propose the changes in one comprehensive bill, the officials said, resisting efforts by some Republicans to break the overhaul into smaller pieces — separately addressing young illegal immigrants, migrant farmworkers or highly skilled foreigners — which might be easier for reluctant members of their party to accept.
The president and Democrats will also oppose measures that do not allow immigrants who gain legal status to become American citizens one day, the officials said.
Even while Mr. Obama has been focused on fiscal negotiations and gun control, overhauling immigration remains a priority for him this year, White House officials said. Top officials there have been quietly working on a broad proposal. Mr. Obama and lawmakers from both parties believe that the early months of his second term offer the best prospects for passing substantial legislation on the issue.
Mr. Obama is expected to lay out his plan in the coming weeks, perhaps in his State of the Union address early next month, administration officials said. The White House will argue that its solution for illegal immigrants is not an amnesty, as many critics insist, because it would include fines, the payment of back taxes and other hurdles for illegal immigrants who would obtain legal status, the officials said.
A bipartisan group of senators has also been meeting to write a comprehensive bill, with the goal of introducing legislation as early as March and holding a vote in the Senate before August.
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I hate using those terms because they are contrived and artificial. They are used to create other victim classes than blacks and to provide them with benefits like affirmative action and minority business set asides. They are part of the Balkanization of America along race, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic lines.
It is interesting to note that 53% of Hispanics self-describe themselves as white.
Protest tommorrow in Austin,TX. as the leader of RNC meet with state Republicans to discuss new ways of garnering “Hispanic votes” & the TEXAS SOLUTION (guestworker project of the service and construction industries).
WHERE: 700 San Jacinto ( OUTSIDE OMNI HOTEL DOWNTOWN- AUSTIN,TX)
TIME: 2PM
CONTACT: magnacarta@stopthemagnet.com
We will have a 25’ banner that reads: Press 1 for English Press 2 to Deport. Help hold up the banner for the Republican traitors.
FB- Stop the Magnet
Good point.
As a practical matter it makes many databases very confusing, and even useless in ethnic discussions.
For instance, the FBI combines Hispanics and whites in almost all crime statistics.
In California, on a per capita basis, Hispanics commit 4 times more gun murders than whites.
Does that number translate nationally?
Good luck winning that debate.
I believe the Census Bureau uses only Household Surveys and Self-Identification to determine race.
Therefore, I have never completely understood how the C.B. creates a “White non-Hispanic” number PLUS a “Latino or Hispanic” number PLUS a “White and Hispanic” number in the same survey.
IF there are ONLY 11 million illegals inside the USA, I am the successor to Mother Teresa.
The creation of the category, “non-Hispanic” white is ludicrous. Hispanic whites like George Zimmerman or someone from Spain, Portugal, or Argentina show how ridiculous such labels are.
I stand duly corrected. Hope this cultural genocide never comes to pass, but I fear the die is cast.
Prayers lifted up that God will have mercy.
just a side note (tag line) our nation is a Republic, not a democracy.
Push it up your @$$!!!
Would love to see zer0 do that with congress ... LOL ... would disappear two evils with one push.
Or if he's going to have to pay $12 he'll replace Jose with an Anglo who has better language skills and lives in the boss's neighborhood.
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