Obama Will Seek Citizenship Path in One Fast Push (for most illegal aliens)

The New York Times ^ | Saturday, January 13, 2013 | JUlia Preston

[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.

[ncalburt]

I always suspected the gun push is a stalking horse and they really want badly is amnesty !
It’s the old dem play book .
The gun deal will be bloody and amnesty will be peddled as bringing us all together !!

[unixfox]

Invade the country with illegals, ban guns, raise taxes, print cash to cause inflation, harass the citizens with jackbooted thugs, tank the economy, surrender in Afghanistan —— what could possibly go wrong?

Civil War II

[Jane Long]

“Agenda:Grinding America Down”

Excellent video that explains why they're overwhelming the system. They're throwing everything at us - as much as they can, as fast as they can - to accomplish their decades old agenda of destroying America.

[tbw2]

Agreed. If they are here to work and are working, they are taking jobs from Americans. If here and not working, they are adding dead weight to a safety net about to break.

[lonevoice]

If the Republicans give him any push back (and I doubt they will), he can just sign an executive order.

[pierrem15]

Is he including himself in the amnesty? /s

[rawcatslyentist]

Jug ears finally gonna get himself a green card?

[doug from upland]

2008 total turnout general election = 132 mil
2010 total turnout general election = 90 mil

about 32 mil fewer total voters came to the polls in 2010.....
and 30.7 mil were Dems who voted in 2008 but did not in 2010? How can that be? 30 mil Dems stayed home in off year election and only 1 mil Repubs stayed home?

[SaraJohnson]

Hopefully Bonehead has figured out that fast accomplishes nothing but furious.

Fast in congress, is not the people’s friend. It’s careless and corrupt.

No deals with the Bamster. He’s a political retard.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Whatever legislation Obama pushes it is always about consolidating the partisan power base. Last summer, while he bantered with reporters, I heard Obama say almost gleefully, “Texas will be a battleground state soon.” The DNC plan is to make the Southwest solid Blue by 2020. That's what this is all about. The reason this wasn't brought up in the last term was because most unions opposed it. They feared a bunch of barefoot Mestizos taking their jobs. But the labor movement has taken horrendous losses since 2010 and they're desperate.

[CottShop]

[[Obama Will Seek Citizenship Path in One Fast Push ]]

You mean He’s not a citizen?

[Oldexpat]

So Pancho gets his green card and shows up to work at the contractor where he has been laying brick for 5 years for $8 and hour. He tells his boss,Jose, that he now is legal and wants $12 and hour and to get bene’s. Jose tells him to get lost because he has a new guy coming from TJ who will work for $8.

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Rep. Luis Gutierrez: Met with Sen. Marco Rubio, Rep. Paul Ryan on immigration reform
By Lynn Sweet on December 26, 2012 10:56 AM | No Comments

WASHINGTON — Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) is quietly building bridges with two key Republicans who may run for president in 2016 — Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Paul Ryan — to forge bipartisan immigration reform legislation.

While Congress is consumed with highly partisan fiscal cliff negotiations — and with the ever-polarizing gun control debate revived in the wake of the Sandy Hook school massacre — immigration issues have dropped back for now. But after the new Congress convenes in January, that’s expected to change.

I’ve learned that Gutierrez met Thursday with Rubio, the Florida Republican — and son of Cuban immigrants — in his Senate office here. On Dec. 12, Gutierrez huddled with Ryan — the Wisconsin Republican who was Mitt Romney’s vice presidential running mate — at his House office.

“What we did was just kind of catch up,” Gutierrez told me. Ryan and Gutierrez decided they want to “explore opportunities to work together.” Gutierrez, one of the House leaders on immigration issues — who has kept constant pressure on President Barack Obama to do more — is crossing the aisle as Republicans need very much to woo the fast growing number of Hispanic voters — who in large part rejected the Romney/Ryan ticket.

After the election, Gutierrez saw Ryan at the House gym and suggested they get together. Gutierrez did not pump iron with Ryan, who has an intense workout regime. “I was going to the less physical, less ardous workout,” Gutierrez told me.

Despite campaigning against Ryan, Gutierrez has a personal relationship with him and when it comes to immigration, Gutierrez says Ryan “wants to do the right thing.”

That Romney talked about “self-deportation” — and Ryan was part of that ticket — is not an issue for Gutierrez.

Not well known, Gutierrez noted, is that he and Ryan share some history: In 2005, Ryan was a co-sponsor of bipartisan and bi-cameral comprehensive immigration reform legislation carried in the House by Gutierrez and Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.). “It wasn’t like it was a long line of Republicans supporting it. He’s always supported immigration reform,” Gutierrez said.

The measure was sponsored in the Senate by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.). That was the last time lawmakers crossed the aisle to work meaningfully together on immigration reform — and that mighty effort failed.

Ryan’s spokesman, Kevin Selfert, told me Ryan has worked with Gutierrez “in the past to develop bipartisan solutions that would address our broken immigration system. Among the topics discussed during their meeting was how best to build on these past efforts in the 113th Congress.”

Gutierrez declined to provide details on the Ryan and Rubio meetings.

“I had a good meeting with Sen. Rubio and I look forward to talking to him against early and often in the New Year. As I have said, he can play a very important role on the immigration issue and will help the Republican Party address the immigration issue in a productive way, in a way that resonates both with Latinos and the rest of America,” Gutierrez said.

Alex Conant, Rubio’s spokesman confirmed but declined to elaborate on the private meeting. Rubio is deeply engaged in immigration issues and “he really wants to be part of the solution here,” Conant said. Besides meeting with Gutierrez , Rubio has also talked with Ryan about immigration issues.

FOOTNOTE: Gutierrez — who stumped for Obama and spoke at the Democratic National Convention — is concerned that Obama has not met with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus since May 2011.

While Obama last June issued a much welcomed executive order allowing many youths in the U.S. illegally through no fault of their own to stay here — Gutierrez is speaking out as many of their parents are being deported under the Obama administration. Rubio — who was working on his own immigration proposals — was “disappointed” that the Obama White House did not “seek out his advice” before issuing that executive order, Conant said.

[Eagles6]

I'm done urging my republican representatives in congress to vote a certain way, I now demand it.

If any republicans vote to legalize illegals in any shape, manner or form the party of Lincoln is done and so is America as we know it.

obimbo'z mission will be complete.

[Eagles6]

I'm done urging my republican representatives in congress to vote a certain way, I now demand it.

If any republicans vote to legalize illegals in any shape, manner or form the party of Lincoln is done and so is America as we know it.

obimbo'z mission will be complete.

[Yosemitest]

Will Obama seek citizenship for himself?


The Arab-Kenyan Barack Hussein Obama II, (a.k.a. Barry Soetoro), ( the one guilty of TREASON ! ) has NO legitimate Social Security Number.
His father was NOT an immigrant to the United States. Barack Obama Sr. was a "Transient Alien" because he did NOT intend on residing in the United States permanently.
Barack Obama Sr. was a dual citizen of Great Britain and Kenya, and NEVER a United States Citizen.

Read British National Archives Show Son Born To Obama Sr. In 1961 In Kenya!

His mother could NOT impart U.S. citizen to her son, Barack Obama II, because she did NOT meet the legal requirements to do so,
at the time her son was born IN the Coast Provincial General Hospital, MOMBASA, KENYA at 7:21 pm on August 4, 1961.
Democrats knew this and tried to eliminate the "Natural Born Citizen" requirement at least 8 times BEFORE Obama won his election in 2008.

Obama is NOT a United States Citizen, and is NOT a LEGAL IMMIGRANT.
He has no VISA allowing him into this country.
Barack Hussein Obama II IS ILLEGAL !
He should be IMPEACHED IMMEDIATELY, tried for TREASON, SENTENCED to death, and then have his body deported back to Kenya.