In the past week about 600,000 or so Americans lost their jobs. That’s in addition to the millions who were already unemployed or underemployed. So it makes perfect sense that Barack Obama plans to push forward with immigration reform that won’t reform anything other than making it easy for illegal immigrants to remain in the United States.
While acknowledging that the recession makes the political battle more difficult, President Barack Obama plans to begin addressing America’s immigration system this year, including looking for a path for illegal immigrants to become legal, a senior administration official said Wednesday.
Obama will frame the new effort – likely to rouse passions on all sides of the highly divisive issue – as “policy reform that controls immigration and makes it an orderly system,” said the official, Cecilia Munoz, deputy assistant to the president and director of intergovernmental affairs in the White House.
Obama plans to speak publicly about the issue in May, administration officials said, and over the summer he will convene working groups, including lawmakers from both parties and a range of immigration organizations, to begin discussing possible legislation for as early as this fall.
Some White House officials said immigration would not take precedence over the health care and energy proposals that Obama has identified as priorities. But the timetable is consistent with pledges that Obama made to Latino groups in last year’s campaign.
He said then that comprehensive immigration legislation, including a plan to make legal status possible for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants, would be a priority in his first year in office. Latino voters turned out strongly for Obama in the election.
To clarify, this only makes perfect sense to Democrats. They are much more interested in increasing their voter base than they are in seeing Americans get back to work. Think about it, the more people they have competing for fewer and fewer jobs, the more people will be dependent on the government, ie: the Democrats, so the more votes they will receive in future elections.
This is just one more example of politicians putting a political agenda ahead of the interests of the American people.
Would you care for some tea?
Everything the O has done in the last few months is an affront to our country. His desire to push the immigration agenda is as transparent as his subservient bow! He’s counting on the illegal’s future votes!
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