Obama faces pressure on immigration reform (DREAM ACT)

lilbawler2001 · 11-17-2008, 08:30 AM

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We're going to be fighting like crazy to keep it off the floor" in Congress, said Roy Beck, president of NumbersUSA, the nation's largest group favoring immigration controls. "Now is not the time to be talking about this."
To start, many expect Obama to halt big immigration raids, such as last year's operation in New Bedford, and, perhaps later, push to allow illegal-immigrant students to pay resident tuition at colleges and universities.
Obama also must decide whether to ask Congress in March to reauthorize the e-verify program, a controversial worker database that is used to check employees' legal status. And he will possibly confront the deportation of his 56-year-old aunt, Zeituni Onyango, who is in the country illegally and who recently fled media attention in Boston for Cleveland.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/...ration_reform/

perhaps later?

lilbawler2001 · 11-17-2008, 08:36 AM

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The Obama team could take many steps administratively to shift immigration policy, including enforcement procedures, Chishti said.
It could lift barriers that prevent eligible immigrants from seeking legal status, including the rule that kicks in when undocumented immigrants leave the United States. Under that rule, they are barred from re-entering for 10 years if they've spent a year in this country without authorization. It could move away from raids against factory workers and instead file charges against employers and human traffickers. It could pull back on the growing federal program known as 287(g), which trains local officers to enforce immigration law. Under Obama, for example, the program could be limited to use by jail personnel, and not police, in checking the status of inmates.
"My feeling is they will try to get as much done administratively as they can," Chishti said.
Another possibility is to pursue smaller-scale bills, including the DREAM Act, which would lay out a process for undocumented college students to seek a green card.

http://www.lohud.com/article/2008111...33/1018/NEWS02

ECW · 11-17-2008, 01:13 PM

We have the usual opposition against us and they are working hard to bring us down before the fight as even begun, so we are going have to work put all our energy together as one and fight twice as hard to get the results we want. 2009 is our year of victory not 2010, 2011 or 2012. ITS 2009 YES WE CAN!!!!

VJB2 · 11-17-2008, 01:30 PM

We got pretty close in 2008 and it seemed harder then than it does now. We need to get on this and I'm excited for those massive calling campaigns and protests and everything.

Ayame · 11-17-2008, 03:34 PM

i didnt like that "perhaps" :/

But Im glad its not completely forgotten, and yes 2009 is our year!!

Jose313 · 09:06 PM

2009 for sure i cant see dream act passing in 2010 being its an election year and 2010 well who knows the GOP might regain some seats. so definitely 2009 has to be our year.

dream3320 · 11-17-2008, 11:56 PM

yeah if its not '09 it will never happen... what a heartbreak that would be.

Ianus · 11-18-2008, 01:00 AM

^I think we have to take the chances as they come & make the best opportunity of them.Never is a looooooong time.

This idea that Dream act will never pass just because it doesn't come up for a vote or pass in '09 is imo,ludicrous.I think the most important things to watch out for are what Harry Reid,Durbin,Pelosi & Obama have to say for themselves after this election about immigration,everything else is just speculation.I also believe we'll get a good hint as soon as Obama is sworn in after the Jan. 21st marches & how he replies in a governing position should set the tone on anything immigration related.

marry147 · 06-14-2010, 05:49 AM

The undocumented student from Mexico whose case has become a lightning rod in the immigration debate had been released on $2,500 bond just a couple hours earlier. The 21-year-old student at Kennesaw State University in Georgia surrendered Friday morning to authorities in response to a warrant for her arrest issued Wednesday night by the Cobb County Sheriff's Office.

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