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Majority Supports Path to Citizenship

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11-16-2012, 11:41 AM
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Most Americans support a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, an issue that may be high on the agenda of newly re-elected President Obama and the 113th Congress, given the increased importance of nonwhites – including Hispanic voters – in the nation’s political equation.
On two other prominent social issues in last week’s voting, a bare majority continues to support legalizing gay marriage, and this ABC News/Washington Post poll finds a new high, 48 percent, in support for legalizing small amounts of marijuana for personal use.


In this survey, support for a path to citizenship peaks at 82 percent among Hispanics, 71 percent among Democrats and liberals alike and 69 percent among young adults, all key Obama groups. Support’s at 68 percent among nonwhites overall, compared with 51 percent among non-Hispanic whites. Obama lost white voters by 20 points last week, but won nonwhites — who accounted for a record 28 percent of the electorate – by 61 points. It was a record racial gap.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics...social-issues/

Republicans and conservatives always seem to be stuck in the past. Giving us a simple path to citizenship is not as bad and complicated as they make it out to be.
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11-16-2012, 11:51 AM
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Its the wording that really puts us at a disadvantage and makes it seem like we're being given amnesty. Most people don't understand this "path to citizenship" is so freakin long. It would literally take years and years for this to happen but meanwhile we would be legal. That's all that matters. Looking at the demographic of this country, this is the best, in fact required option to solve the crisis. This must be made into our permanent home because not a single person is returning.
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11-16-2012, 12:41 PM
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If a bill that eventually leads to citizenship is bound to fail, then we need to create a new immigrant category.

I would support a category that allows us the same rights as those that hold permanent residency. However, this category would have the following differences:

(1) One cannot sponsor family.
(2) One will not automatically qualify for citizenship in five years as in the regular permanent residency. If one wants to be a citizenship, then they would have to use of the current available routes.

The 6 year W-1 visa, and the non-immigrant visa, as proposed by the GOP, are debilitating and discriminatory in too many ways. For one, we can't work in places where permanent residency or indefinite work authorization is required. This new category should make us eligible for those jobs. In other words, this would be very a DACA policy that grants legal status and indefinite work authorization (instead of the 2 year one).


...but I do wish that we would just be given green cards, but that would be engaging in wishful thinking.
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11-16-2012, 03:50 PM
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Tips I would give if they mattered but they dont:

Integrate DACA for those eligible, make us wait til daca "expires" then give a straight path to a conditional LPR for an extended amount of years then make us wait longer for USC.... Heavy fines. Educational/Skill requirement. Call it amnesty or whatever, who cares, just get it done within the next year.
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CIR is getting a lot of momentum.
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