Mike Coffman: Immigration Reform Should Give Dreamers Path To Citizenship

This is quite an about face for so many hardline Republicans.Issa,Cantor and Coffman whom I thought would never support a path to citizenship seem to be doing just that.Sigh,the obvious problem is that our advocates and sponsors are part of a Coalition now so might not be willing to push it piecemeal in the House.

It will also be very difficult to ascertain who supports Dream act alone in the House due to their changing positions but I suspect the votes may actually be currently in the House of Representatives amongst the GOP and Democrats for Dream act alone!

1) Immediate citizenship for Dreamers

2) Immediate regular, unconditional green card for all other undocumented workers

3) Time to naturalization after earning the green card extended to 20 years for both documented and undocumented workers

4) Re-allocate lottery visas and chain migration visas to immediate relatives of family-based immigration

5) STEM green cards allowed

6) A dedicated authority created to manage the Southwest border of the US including Federal, state, and local officers, whose tasks include fence building and receive donations from all over the country for such purpose

7) An entry-exit system

8 ) E-verify

9) Allowing national guards to help the ICE to secure the border

10) Double the existing number of ICE agents

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Uo, slow down there buddy. You're in no position to demand anything.

Its editorialchief dude

lol, dream on

Republicans are feeling the pressure now that a vast majority of Americans favor CIR with citizenship pathway but they are taking small steps to finally acknowledge it. I believe that every republican in the house knows that a second class immigrants is not the way to solve a broken immigration system.

Americans (UCS) Favor a CIR with a path to citizenship (or so a fox poll told us) but even then they are not willing to go as support it. There was this yahoo poll which asked which task was more important and immigration reform was voted last.

Cut down fuck m$#f-ing time it takes to get a visa for Mexicans and Phillipians. F$#$! first preference category because many people age out and they become "not" an immidiate relavtive to their mom, as in my case. It boggles my mind that US immigration does not consider any son or daughter no matter thier age to NOT be immidiate relatives to their own parents!
Just call them immideate relatives and at least have the balls to say that they have limits on how many of them can immigrate legally to the US BECAUSE of thier age. Just do not say that they are not immediate relatives, kiss my brown ass!

What a rant, as it were.

We're making progress.

I think all of us agree that an eventual path to citizenship should be offered. Most Americans agree that a path to citizenship is the right way to fix the system. hmm?? I still feel we don't have enough votes in the house to get this done. Most Reps feel that a path to citizenship is an extreme such as deporting 11 million people. So.....

If PTC is a deal breaker, would legalizing 11 million people without barring them from citizenship (and not offering it either), would that work for most of us?

If we become citizens we can petition our parents; however, the tricky part would be getting around the 3/10 year ban...

I dunno, having a second class of citizens living in the U.S is unacceptable, but our parents need immediate relief in the midst of racist laws being enacted....

What do you guys think?

Second class citizens will be pretty much like a modern form of slavery