AP source: Immigration a topic at White House

WASHINGTON – The White House plans to host a discussion on immigration on Thursday with advocates, faith-based groups, businesses and law enforcement officials.
An administration official says that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will lead the discussion. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the meeting is not public.
Last week President Barack Obama said immigration reform is important but that other priorities such as his health care overhaul and financial regulation are going to come first.
Obama said he expects to see draft legislation for an immigration overhaul by the end of the year, with changing the system waiting until next year.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090817/..._immigration_1

I hope they are convinced to at least pass the dream act this year.

I believe Chertoff was delegated to do the same thing under the Bush Administration.We'll just have to wait & see how effective Napolitano is.

Piecemeal, anyone?

i don't really think, they will bring up like piece meal.......but i still hope so......

I wonder if they will try a smaller package?

They will have to do something, or it will look bad in the 2010 elections. If it looks as if they backtracked from their "promise", it wont look good.

hey look another beer-summet.

maybe they will have coronas..

Didn't Obama promise "transparency"?

I really hope Obama doesn't end up like Carter, trying to straddle the middle and, as a result, pissing off liberals and conservatives and getting little done. He seems to be doing this with health care now, not to mention immigration.

I just continually want one of these meetings to end up coming out with SOMEBODY at this roundtable saying "Hey, what about this Dream Act Thing??", and Congress deciding to pass that first and hopefully immediately, then CIR later... instead of them trying to do it all at once, then NOTHING passing at all.

He's a politician what do you expect.