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Reid cannot commit to doing immigration reform this year

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05-09-2010, 12:04 PM
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and here's the strategy.... Bastards.

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) could not commit on Sunday to moving immigration reform this year.

Reid said he would like to move comprehensive immigration reform, but stressed that some Republican support would be necessary, a difficult prospect in the current political environment.

"The Senate is not a body that is defined by time," Reid said on "Al Punto" on the Spanish-language network Univision. "I'm going to move immigration as quickly as I can."

Reid was among a group of Democrats to unveil an outline for immigration reform legislation in late April, though he backed off earlier indications that he might move immigration next after it drew Republican complaints, specifically from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).

"We are committed to do comprehensive immigration reform, the President supports us on that, but I tell everyone we can't do a bill unless we get some Republican," Reid stressed.

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the second-ranking Senate Democrat behind Reid, acknowledged this weekend that the busy Senate schedule ahead could put in doubt efforts to do immigration reform this year.

President Barack Obama has said he wants reform set in motion this year, and House leaders have said that immigration reform must begin in the Senate.

Reid rejected the notion, though, that Latinos would stay at home or vote for Republicans this fall -- especially in Nevada, where Reid is facing a tough reelection challenge -- if Democrats come up short on immigration.

"I believe, as has been indicating in all the polling, that even people who are Hispanics who identify as being Republicans, are walking away from the Republicans," Reid said. "This is an anti-immigrant party and is very clear."
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...form-this-year
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05-09-2010, 12:26 PM
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After hearing such upbeat stories about immigration reform, we start reading stories like this, they bring people's spirits down and at least to me makes me wonder how long can they go on like this?

Feenmi make a joke jajaja
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This was one of my fears, that CIR would not be taken up. Stupid Democrats they should have done CIR at the begginning of Obama's Presidency. Kinda wish Clinton would have been in office instead to keep her promise. I hope they decide to debate the DREAM Act though.
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Well we can't expect them to move the damn thing to the floor when they know the Republicans are just going to shit on it.
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Well we can't expect them to move the damn thing to the floor when they know the Republicans are just going to shit on it.
So what are we supposed to expect of them? Nothing? I just hate it when they use it as political leverage to get the latino community among other communities in order to receive political backing.
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After hearing such upbeat stories about immigration reform, we start reading stories like this, they bring people's spirits down and at least to me makes me wonder how long can they go on like this?

Feenmi make a joke jajaja
knock knock.... hahah

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Well we can't expect them to move the damn thing to the floor when they know the Republicans are just going to shit on it.
Why not? If it's a lose/lose situation, why not put it on the floor? Make those GOP senators publicly go on record saying that they don't want CIR. That they are anti-immigrant (anti-hispanic ). I'd love to see McCain win the primary and then vote NO on CIR. With all the crap he's been spewing lately + his NO vote...imagine the number of Latinos that would actually vote for him... Just a thought though...
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knock knock.... hahah
Whose there? lol.
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Whose there? lol.
Hahaha dude...I refuse to do a knock knock joke hah
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look like we are facing the tough situation again. i think after congress election, this issue will be more tougher to pass cause republican may gain more sits.
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This is a blog, I haven't seen an actual article confirming this yet.
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