On Congress. SCHIP and Immigration Reform

Ianus · 01-14-2009, 01:49 AM

Won't the real slim shady politician please stand up,please stand up.We're given so many dates on when comprehensive immigration reform could be taken up & here is another.

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But as our country's leaders are also finding out with SCHIP, passing comprehensive immigration reform will also be a key that unlocks progress on other critical domestic priorities. I hear talk in Washington that perhaps this issue will fall to 2011, or 2012. To me this makes no sense. Immigration Reform should be tackled this year. Our broken immigration system is a vexing national problem that the American people want solved. It is contributing to an increasingly dangerous border region, clogging our courts, tossing a federal problem back down to the states, and causing terrible harm to millions of families across the country. Not solving it - when manifestations of it dominate the local news every day - makes our leaders look weak, fearful, political. It will also slow down progress on lots of other issues, from housing and foreclosure reform, universal health care to putting laptops in the backpack of every child - these and other areas that will be subject to questions about whether the benefits confered may somehow be used by an undocumented immigrant or their children. Thus, the new Congress and the new Administration should be smart, pass comprehensive immigration reform this year, toughen up the border and the workplace, deal with the future flow of immigrants both at the high and low end more strategically, and legalize the status and offer a path to citizenship to those already here - and free up the nation from the debilitating proxy fights over immigration that will continue to plague so many legislative battles in the years ahead.

anitagreencard · 01-14-2009, 02:01 AM

if the mayan prophecies are true and reform is passed 2012, i'm gonna be pissed..

Ark · 01-14-2009, 02:04 AM

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Originally Posted by anitagreencard

if the mayan prophecies are true and reform is passed 2012, i'm gonna be pissed..

lmao -------

kenny1314 · 01-14-2009, 02:37 AM

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Originally Posted by anitagreencard

if the mayan prophecies are true and reform is passed 2012, i'm gonna be pissed..

ME TOO....2012 we cannot wait that long....if CIR still doesn't pass in 2012, and we have to wait until 2015? WTF~~~~~~~~that is forever~~~Hopefully we can pass AGJOB and Dream First~~~that is our hope

ECW · 01-14-2009, 02:46 AM

Let's all keep our focus on DREAM only right now, 09 is our year!!

lu001 · 01-14-2009, 03:46 AM

I agree that immigration reform cannot be postponed for that long. Immigrants are part of communities, we don't live in empty vacuums of time and space. Immigration will come up with every domestic issue, in this case with SCHIP. It would be more practical and efficient to pass an immigration reform plan sooner so that it won't have to be debated every single time a domestic bill comes up.

Then again, Congress isn't known for being efficient...

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