Immigrant Advocates Turn Up Heat
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| The White House is scrambling to extend an olive branch by holding two key meetings on Thursday. Obama will meet with Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to discuss their efforts to advance a bipartisan immigration reform bill, and, separately, senior administration officials will meet with grass-roots immigration groups to hear their concerns. |
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“We’ve got to convince the American people that we are going to secure our borders,” Graham said. “If we do that one thing, I think it would do a lot to solve the problem.” But so far, Graham is the only Republican actively negotiating with Democrats on immigration reform. And even he acknowledged that the ID card provision is “a new idea” and he doesn’t know “how it’s going to play out” among Democrats and Republicans alike. |
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| “Preserving consensus support for bipartisan immigration reform depends on taking it up as a comprehensive bill, and not breaking it up into pieces,” said Schumer, who is also Senate Democratic Conference chairman. |
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| "I love Schumer. Schumer’s a bright guy. But I don’t think he has any illusions about getting it done this year,” Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said. He said the Schumer-Graham proposal is really just an effort to “get the immigrant community off their backs. There’s a lot of politics being played, and I don’t like it.” |
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| “There isn’t a bill,” said Cornyn, who met last week with Schumer to discuss immigration reform. “I told Sen. Schumer I’d like to work with him and find common ground.” |
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| “More than a year later, it continues sliding down his priority list behind health care, climate change and adding trillions to the national debt over the next decade. If we are going to truly reform our immigration system, it’s time for President Obama to do that which the people elected him to do: lead,” Cornyn said. |
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| Shapiro wouldn’t give a timeline on when Obama wants to see immigration reform enacted. But he outlined the pieces that Obama wants in a final bill: tougher border enforcement, a crackdown on employers who exploit undocumented workers and a path to legalization for illegal immigrants. |
Interesting to read about what Senator Cornyn has to say about Senator Schumer and a possible immigration bill.
Senator Hatch's remark is what most of us thought. Let's hope its not true.
What is in quotations are only excerpts from the article which can be found at:
http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_101/news/44027-1.html
Last edited by dreamberry; 03-10-2010 at 08:32 PM..
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