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In Congress, a harder line on illegal immigrants

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12-27-2010, 12:16 AM
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WASHINGTON – The end of the year means a turnover of House control from Democratic to Republican and, with it, Congress' approach to immigration.

In a matter of weeks, Congress will go from trying to help young, illegal immigrants become legal to debating whether children born to parents who are in the country illegally should continue to enjoy automatic U.S. citizenship.

Such a hardened approach — and the rhetoric certain to accompany it — should resonate with the GOP faithful who helped swing the House in Republicans' favor. But it also could further hurt the GOP in its endeavor to grab a large enough share of the growing Latino vote to win the White House and the Senate majority in 2012.

Legislation to test interpretations of the 14th Amendment as granting citizenship to children of illegal immigrants will emerge early next session. That is likely to be followed by attempts to force employers to use a still-developing web system, dubbed E-Verify, to check that all of their employees are in the U.S. legally.

There could be proposed curbs on federal spending in cities that don't do enough to identify people who are in the country illegally and attempts to reduce the numbers of legal immigrants. Democrats ended the year failing for a second time to win passage of the Dream Act, which would have given hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants a chance at legal status.

House Republicans will try to fill the immigration reform vacuum left by Democrats with legislation designed to send illegal immigrants packing and deter others from trying to come to the U.S.

Democrats, who will still control the Senate, will be playing defense against harsh immigration enforcement measures, mindful of their need to keep on good footing with Hispanic voters. But a slimmer majority and an eye on 2012 may prevent Senate Democrats from bringing to the floor any sweeping immigration bill, or even a limited one that hints at providing legal status to people in the country illegally.

President Barack Obama could be a wild card.

He'll have at his disposal his veto power should a bill denying citizenship to children of illegal immigrants make it to his desk. But Obama also has made cracking down on employers a key part of his administration's immigration enforcement tactics.

Hispanic voters and their allies will look for Obama to broker a deal on immigration as he did on tax cuts and health care. After the Dream Act failed in the Senate this month, Obama said his administration would not give up on the measure. "At a minimum we should be able to get Dream done. So I'm going to go back at it," he said.

The president has taken heavy hits in Spanish-language and ethnic media for failing to keep his promise to address immigration promptly and taking it off the agenda last summer. His administration's continued deportations of immigrants — a record 393,000 in the 2010 fiscal year — have also made tenuous his relationship with Hispanic voters.

John Morton, who oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said in a recent conference call that there are no plans to change the agency's enforcement tactics, which are focused on immigrants who commit crimes but also have led to detaining and deporting many immigrants who have not committed crimes.

The agency also will continue to expand Secure Communities, the program that allows immigration officials to check fingerprints of all people booked into jail to see if they are in the country illegally. Both illegal immigrants and residents can end up being deported under the program, which the Homeland Security Department hopes to expand nationwide by 2013.

Many of those attending a recent gathering of conservative Hispanics in Washington warned that another round of tough laws surrounded by ugly anti-immigrant discussions could doom the GOP's 2012 chances.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a possible 2012 candidate, cited Meg Whitman's failed gubernatorial bid in California despite her high spending. When 22 percent of the electorate is Latino, candidates can't win without a vigorous presence in the Hispanic community and a "message that is understandable and involves respect," Gingrich said. Even so, Gingrich was unwilling to call on his fellow Republican senators to drop their opposition to the Dream Act, saying the legislation should not have been considered without giving lawmakers a chance to amend it.

The next Congress will be populated with many newcomers elected on a platform of tougher immigration enforcement. They'll have ready ears in Republican Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, who will chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Steve King of Iowa, who is expected to chair the committee's immigration subcommittee.

That's a recipe for more measures aimed at immigration enforcement, including requiring businesses to use E-Verify rather than eyeballing paper documents to check workers' citizenship and legal residency status.

"I've already told the business community it's going to happen," said Beto Cardenas, executive counsel to Americans for Immigration Reform, a coalition of business leaders who support overhauling immigration laws. Changes to immigration law contained in appropriations and authorization bills, where immigration enforcement hawks are likely to tuck some measures, would also be tough to reject.

But more controversial measures such as attempts to deny citizenship to children of people who are in the U.S. without permission could be tempered by GOP leaders aware of the need to curry more favor with Hispanic voters.
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I've given up all hope for CIR ever passing. At the moment I'm just hoping that congress doesn't pass any strict laws ordering the roundup and deportation of illegals until I can get my degree done. Just another 3-4 semesters! *crosses fingers*
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I'm suppose to be scared? Try and find me, still stacking that paper bitch!.


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I've given up all hope for CIR ever passing. At the moment I'm just hoping that congress doesn't pass any strict laws ordering the roundup and deportation of illegals until I can get my degree done. Just another 3-4 semesters! *crosses fingers*
Texas dreamer , I have been reading your post for awhile on here and they get more Viral post to post and that is fine well it will piss people off to not support the cause of course. But my main issue with you is you live in my state Texas and compared to any state in the country. Texas is known for its great treatment of illegals even President Clinton said this in a speech before while he was president in a state of the union address to the country. Texas is the model of how immigration should work was his words. And Texas is the closest example of how a dream act should be addressed no its not perfect and we are not giving citizenship to illegals but we have generations of illegals living without fear and living productive lives as illegal immigrants to this point. But on here your one of loudest speakers of injustice heard when really you have not endured nearly as bad as the others on the board. So start thinking about toning down the hostility and replace it with responsible adult responses people can get things done with and drop the poor me stuff. We do it right in Texas.
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Haha ouch, I got called out.

Yeah, you're right, but I'm just being realistic. I know there's a line between cynicism and realism, but in situations like this it seems like both are one and the same. What I fear is that while in the past the general attitude in the country towards illegal immigration has been to pay lip service to the idea of cracking down on illegals and deporting them, the issue today has changed drastically.

There is now an actual wall going up between two countries, there are more agents and the associated high-tech security on the border, there are more checkpoints further inland than before, there are now immigration agents checking people on Greyhound buses, there are fewer and fewer states giving driver's licenses to illegals, more and more places use e-verify, states are beginning to introduce and pass Arizona-esque laws, and finally the easiest statistic to understand: there are more people being deported now then before.

Take all of those things and then look at the current crop of people elected to national and state legislatures. The US House is strongly republican. Here in Texas, the House has a 2/3rds SUPER MAJORITY & there is a strong republican majority in the Senate (19-12). Who were the people elected? Many of them are far-right, extremist, xenophobic, isolationist tea baggers.

Take all of those things, put them together, and you have something that is worth worrying about.
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