Obama Likely to Scale Back Legislative Plans

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...491819348.html

A senior Democratic Senate aide said White House officials have indicated a willingness to push through piecemeal changes to immigration law, instead of a comprehensive bill that combines border controls and immigration law enforcement with a path to citizenship for many of the 11 million illegal immigrants already in the country.

Under the incremental scenario, the White House would embrace Republican proposals to step up immigration law enforcement and border and port security in exchange for measures such as the DREAM Act, which would give illegal immigrant children a path to citizenship through military or public service. White House officials could add an agricultural-workers program to that bill but put off dealing with the bulk of illegal immigrants until later.

Later= Never....

true. I don't see any CIR coming up soon until 2013 :// unfortunately... The soonest that CIR could come up, according several sources, is spring 2011. But don't put your bet on that.

But good news is that Dream Act will come up again very soon !!!

what about DA if it dont pass this year?

They've got to then reintroduce it in the new congressional session.

Let's get back to work, folks!

well... this is good news, pass what has the best chances of passing on the area of immigration, allow us to come out of anonymity and help strengthen the chant for something more comprehensive, that should have been the plan from the beginning, not joining two plans at once because of worries that passing one would cause a loss of support for the other.

well said. i completely agree.

Pass the DREAM Act, give us a voice and we will fight for the voiceless. We will not leave them behind.

I wish he would have scaled back his plans two years ago

I think we will get the bill back in the lame duck session. Its a matter of time.