“I smell the votes of 38 millions racist MEXICANS!” BARACK OBAMA, the La Raza Dems Party
REALTY: THERE ARE 40 MILLION ILLEGALS IN THIS COUNTRY, WITH MORE HOPING THE BORDERS AND INTO OUR JOBS DAILY!
NEW YORK TIMES
November 14, 2009
White House to Begin Push on Immigration Overhaul in 2010
By JULIA PRESTON
The Obama administration will insist on measures to give legal status to an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants as it pushes early next year for legislation to overhaul the immigration system, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Friday.
In an address at the Center for American Progress, a liberal policy group in Washington, Ms. Napolitano sought to dispel any notion that the administration — with health care, energy and other major issues crowding its agenda — might postpone the most contentious piece of an immigration overhaul until after midterm elections next November.
Laying out the administration’s bottom line, she said it will argue for a “three-legged stool” that includes enacting tougher enforcement laws against illegal immigrants and the people who hire them, and streamlining the system for legal immigration, but also what she called a “tough and fair pathway to earned legal status.”
With unemployment surging over 10 percent and Congress wrestling with health care, advocates on all sides of the immigration debate had started to doubt that President Obama would keep to his pledge to take on the divisive issue of illegal immigration in the first months of 2010.
Congress should be ready to move forward on immigration, Ms. Napolitano said, because the administration had made a “fundamental change” in security at the border and in cracking down on employers hiring illegal immigrants. She said that the Border Patrol had increased its forces by more than 20,000 officers, and that more than 600 miles of border fence had been completed, both milestones set by Congress.
“Let me emphasize this,” she said. “We will never have fully effective law enforcement or national security as long as so many millions remain in the shadows.”
Under the administration’s plan, illegal immigrants would have to register, pay fines and all taxes they owe, pass a criminal background check and learn English.
TELL ME, HOW CAN YOU BE A SO CALLED “HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY IF YOU THINK THE BORDERS SHOULD REMAIN WIDE OPEN FOR THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS AND MILLIONS OF LA RAZA VOTERS?
Ms. Napolitano has been leading the administration’s efforts to gather support for the immigration overhaul, meeting in recent weeks with business leaders, faith groups, law-enforcement officials and other groups to gauge their support for the effort.
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