Posted on 06/29/2010 9:00:30 AM PDT by Lorianne
President Barack Obama on Monday met with grass-roots leaders Monday afternoon to discuss immigration reform, the White House said.
Obama told those at the meeting that he wants to see a bipartisan process for immigration reform based on a proposal presented in the Senate that addresses the need to secure the border and demands accountability from both workers who are in the United States illegally and employers who take advantage of the system, the White House said.
True border security requires comprehensive immigration reform, Obama said. The president will give a speech soon on the importance of passing that reform, the White House said.
The president also reiterated his views against the recently passed immigration law in Arizona, which the Justice Department is reviewing.
"Today, we strongly requested for the president to assert his leadership and escalate his efforts to assure comprehensive immigration reform legislation is enacted in 2010," Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum and meeting attendee, said in a statement. "From our meeting, it is clear that the president is committed to comprehensive immigration reform and understands that congressional action is needed urgently."
Other topics discussed at the meeting included concerns that the grass-roots leaders had about reforms to current detention and deportation procedures, Noorani said.
Monday's meeting comes on the heels of a number of immigration movements that have been quietly percolating over the last 48 hours.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/28/obama-immigration-reform_n_628703.html
True border security an oxymoron.
Mr. Skittles for bipartisan immigration reform. I guess that means Lindsay Graham will go along? Anything to bring out dependable illegal voters for the off year election.
The revolution clock is now 2 minutes to midnight.
” True border security requires comprehensive immigration reform, Obama said.”
Border security has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with immigration reform!
‘President Barack Obama on Monday met with grass-roots leaders Monday afternoon to discuss immigration reform, the White House said.’
Really? Wonder who those unnamed ‘grass-roots’ leaders would be, La Raza et al?
Legislatively speaking, do you think the push will come before november, or during the lame duck post election to january time period? I keep hearing about the messiah signing an executive order. An executive order would spark Constitutional crisis, not that zero has a problem with that.
The community agitator has come to the street corner.
It’s all he knows, stir up trouble.
We need to deport or imprison ALL illegal aliens,including their anchor babies, seal/secure the border and SHOOT anyone trying to re-enter illegally.
My guess is Executive Order during the lame duck session. The outgoing Congress will then pass a party line “resolution” supporting some facet of the Executive Order.
It is really called...I NEED THE VOTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If Bush had had this many “closed door meetings,” the press would have burned down the White House.
Border security has as much to do with immigration reform as it does with Healthcare or the price of tea in China. The Left marry the two together for no reason other than they want to create a new democrat voting block.
No EO, not this close to the election.
I'm starting to wonder if he doesn't want civil unrest more than he wants the votes.
This explains why the his administrations shows NO INTEREST in scaling back it’s wild socialist policies.They behave as if they already have the amnesty voters in hand, making them untouchable.
Obama Recruiting Activists, Labor For Push On Immigration Reform
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/28/obama-immigration-reform_n_628703.html
Sorry for the source, but they’re the only ones (proudly) reporting who these people are.
Cripes! What have we done? The US electorate has installed Al Sharpton's little sister in the White House. Race hustler. Poverty pimp.
It is going to backfire on him, people will hit the streets both for and against this, its going to be bloody.
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