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National Journal reports
President Obama renewed his call for comprehensive immigration reform in a major address at the U.S.-Mexico border on Tuesday and attempted to restart the debate on an issue he spoke passionately about as a candidate but has made little headway on during his presidency.
In a speech in El Paso, Texas, Obama argued that his administration has made significant progress on border security over the last two years, answering GOP opponents’ objections to tackling reform legislatively.
The Obama administration has doubled the number of agents patrolling the border and has deported nearly 400,000 illegal immigrants last year—facts that the president said underscore that the conditions are right for a serious debate on overhauling the nation’s immigration policy, administration officials said. The president also said that current immigration laws are keeping innovative thinkers and skilled workers from contributing to the U.S. economy.
But even in making his case to reopen the debate on immigration reform, Obama noted that it would be difficult to get comprehensive immigration reform through a divided Congress.
“We have gone above and beyond what was requested by the very Republicans who said they supported broader reform as long as we got serious about enforcement,” Obama said. ”All the stuff they asked for, we’ve done. But even though we’ve answered these concerns, I suspect there will be those who will try to move the goal posts one more time.”
In his address, Obama offered broad outlines of what he thought comprehensive reform should look like. He suggested that the U.S. government has to fulfill its responsibility of securing the nation’s borders. Businesses that exploit undocumented workers should be dealt with severely. Illegal workers currently in the country would have to pay fines, taxes, learn English and go to the back of line of those trying to immigrate legally. And the law needs to be reshaped so that it’s easier for foreigners who come to the U.S. for school to stay and work once they earn their degrees.
They have not “completed” the fence. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/01/obama-cancels-troubled-virtual-border-fence/1
They have increased the Border Patrol but they are not on the border patrolling.
They have ceased urban sweeps that actually captured hundreds of illegal laborers.
They are refusing to attend deportation hearings, scuttling the deportation of captured illegal aliens. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/immigration/7169978.html
They will not deport aliens who would have qualified for amnesty under the DREAM Act had it passed. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/1/dhs-illegal-immigrant-students-not-target-deportat/
Focusing on southbound traffic is not part of OUR “border security” and his Administration is botching that too. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/03/eveningnews/main20039031.shtml
Apart from that…nice suit.
But of course. More Democrat votes.
Im a Mexican American born and raised in America!!
i am pist, i dont give a damn about immigration law!!, they need to send them all back, there here illegal and they can go to the food stamps place,clinic and get everything for free?? wtf!!
if i go try to get foodstamps they want to see my S.S my paid stubs my licence where i live.?
and they go up there and they cant even speak english?? and they get 400+ $$$ for food??
not to mention tanf and getting checks.??
and they dont get taxed and everything there getting paid gets sent back to mexico are where ever they came from.
Were the ones struggling getting taxed and paying for there kids going to school there food there houses???
this whole aconomy going to shit.
VOTE NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
when they work they use fake names and get no money taken out of there check. hahahaha
HOW ARE THEY STILL GETTING THROUGH THE BORDER??
First of all u goober skank, they cant get food stamps for themselves its for their kids that are born here, second they get taxes taken out of their checks just like everyone else only they DONT GET IT BACK so they are paying for ur kids to go to school. No one pays anyones rent because u cant get housing assitants unless u have a social. clinics are open to everyone not just mexicans/illegals u dumb bi***. and no they dont all use fake names. So why dont u do more research on ur own culture before u start running ur mouth looking like a dumb whore!!! Maybe u should go back to where ur family came from that would be MEXICO u fucking cunt!!!. They are not taking anyones jobs, they are doing the work the the lazy ass americans refuse to do. I would love to see u out in the fields for 14 hrs come home play with ur kids, relax for an hour then get up and to it all over again for 6 days straight sometimes 14 days straight. BITCH!!!