Coming: A comprehensive bill that puts 11 million illegals on the path to citizenship

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WASHINGTON — As soon as the confrontation over fiscal policy winds down, the Obama administration will begin an all-out drive for comprehensive immigration reform, including seeking a path to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants, according to officials briefed on the plans.

While key tactical decisions are still being made, President Obama wants a catch-all bill that would also bolster border security measures, ratchet up penalties for employers who hire illegal immigrants, and make it easier to bring in foreign workers under special visas, among other elements.

Senior White House advisors plan to launch a social media blitz in January, and expect to tap the same organizations and unions that helped get a record number of Latino voters to reelect the president.

Cabinet secretaries are preparing to make the case for how changes in immigration laws could benefit businesses, education, healthcare and public safety. Congressional committees could hold hearings on immigration legislation as soon as late January or early February.

"The president can't guarantee us the outcome but he can guarantee us the fight," said Eliseo Medina, secretary-treasurer of the Service Employees International Union, which represents more than 2 million workers. "We expect a strong fight."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-immigration-20121208,0,4768286,print.story

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Sounds like GWB's proposal that didn't go anywhere.

[Ban Hammer 13,570]

why yes, we need more citizens that are economically and educationally the low end of the totem pole.

[DaveE 178]

I only have ten more years until a visa is available for my step daughter. Maybe we should have tried the other route.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

why yes, we need more citizens that are economically and educationally the low end of the totem pole.

Just learn Spanish. White people, like black people, don't want to work, but brown people seem more than willing to do so, and as far as job skills, I would like to anyone else build a patio with a built in barbecue with just a bag of cement and some coat hangers for under $100. Looks good, and still standing after five years now.

Check this out:

Drug Smugglers Shoot Drugs Across Border with Cannon

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Just learn Spanish. White people, like black people, don't want to work, but brown people seem more than willing to do so, and as far as job skills, I would like to anyone else build a patio with a built in barbecue with just a bag of cement and some coat hangers for under $100. Looks good, and still standing after five years now.

Plus, their kids will outperform the 7th generation American brats running around in rural bumblestan.

Their kids kids... never mind. They'll be as American as Snooki.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Just learn Spanish. White people, like black people, don't want to work, but brown people seem more than willing to do so, and as far as job skills, I would like to anyone else build a patio with a built in barbecue with just a bag of cement and some coat hangers for under $100. Looks good, and still standing after five years now.

Why yes you nailed it! That's why Mexico along with Central and South American countries are and always have been the top rungs of the ladder socially and economically. No wonder so many people in the US and Canada have legally and illegally relocated to one of those well developed countries.

Edited December 12, 2012 by Bad_Daddy

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

I'm not sure the current or next administration can pull of what would be a wide-sweeping amnesty, Reagan style, no matter how deeply they embed it into pork. Even the Reagan amnesty of 1986 make securing the border a mandate. Look at it today.

[Ban Hammer 13,570]

one post removed for advocating illegal immigration activity, along with one quoting.

even in jest, do not make posts like that again.

[JohnR! 5,495]

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While key tactical decisions are still being made, President Obama wants a catch-all bill that would also bolster border security measures, ratchet up penalties for employers who hire illegal immigrants, and make it easier to bring in foreign workers under special visas, among other elements.

That is where it should begin. You can't expect to solve the issue with immigration without addressing the border first. Fix the leak and then the damage.

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That is where it should begin. You can't expect to solve the issue with immigration without addressing the border first. Fix the leak and then the damage.

You object to a bill that addresses both?

[JohnR! 5,495]

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You object to a bill that addresses both?

Do you?

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Do you?

No, but it sounded like you might since you want the leak fixed "first". Just trying to get you to clarify.

[JohnR! 5,495]

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No, but it sounded like you might since you want the leak fixed "first". Just trying to get you to clarify.

I have no say so in the matter. I am not making any laws to that effect. I was only expressing my opinion.

Edited December 13, 2012 by Gegel

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I have no say so in the matter. I am not making any laws to that effect. I was only expressing my opinion.

ok