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Jeb Bush to push for immigration reform
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Wow, who would've thought? :?:
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very very very nice to hear
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Re: Jeb Bush to push for immigration reform
a bush supporting immigration. dope.
all this immigration talk makes me happy yet scares me at the same time. it seems that more people are on board with it, but theres always that ...what if.. (i dont even want to say it , as not to sound to negative) |
Re: Jeb Bush to push for immigration reform
yes!!!!
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alright so the steps needed tohelp all of us out are being set out.
i'm glad to hear this news. but as was said by a previous post in the back of my mind i alwas have a little devil going.. well what if??? hopefully something will be set in stone to fixx all of our immigration problems soon. |
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good bush
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Re: Jeb Bush to push for immigration reform
Sen. Charles E. Schumer, chairman of a Senate immigration subcommittee that is taking the lead on reform legislation, said the recommendations track his plans for the bill, particularly the "biometric" document verification system. "Their basic principles are similar to ours," Schumer said in a statement, ". . . but there are lots of details that must be filled in."
The report comes as President Obama and Congressional Democrats say they expect to begin debate on a comprehensive immigration plan within a year. But key Republicans -- including Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the 2008 Republican presidential nominee and co-sponsor of previous overhaul legislation -- have said a plan must include expanding temporary-worker programs. The panel did not recommend allow more guest workers, but threw its support to a 2006 recommendation by the Migration Policy Institute that was endorsed by labor union leaders to create a standing commission to establish future legal immigration levels based on economic conditions. It also called for strong border enforcement and a mandatory work document verification system based on fingerprints or eye scans. Edward Alden, the task force's director and a CFR fellow, said the involvement of Bush, a prominent national Republican and the brother of former president George W. Bush, and McLarty, a Democrat and senior international fellow at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, was intended to create political space for centrists in both parties. "Politically what this group shows is a consensus is possible on this issue," Alden said. "There is a commitment on all sides of the political debate to much tougher and more consistent enforcement . . . The trade-off on the other side is, you've got to have a flexible enough system in which it will be possible to adjust" employer-based immigration based on economic conditions, he said. Also serving on the 19-member panel were Eliseo Medina, international executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union; Raul H. Yzaguirre past president and chief executive officer of the National Council of La Raza; Robert C. Bonner, former head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Drug Enforcement Administration; and Richard D. Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's ethics and religious liberty commission. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...administration |
Re: Jeb Bush to push for immigration reform
A related article:
The changing demographics of the United States, with fewer workers and more retirees, should compel Washington to make comprehensive immigration reform a top policy priority, says former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, a cochair of the Council of Foreign Relations Task Force on U.S. immigration policy. As Congress begins to look again at reform, a number of significant hurdles will impede reform efforts, Bush says. But he adds that conditions for creating a legal and economic system to overhaul immigration policy are slightly more promising than past attempts. "We have to have a legal system of immigration that accounts for the fact that we have fewer workers that are producing the resources to take care of a growing number of people who aspire to be retired," the former governor says. "There's no possible way we can sustain our entitlement programs without having a strategy in place that recognizes that the legal flow of immigration matters." http://www.cfr.org/publication/19752...breadcrumb=%2F |
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"withing a year"
What happen to this year? |
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