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Our immigration system is broken.
Topic Started: Jan 31 2013, 10:09 AM (83 Views)
Copper
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From my friends at the white house.

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Dear friends --

Our immigration system is broken. It has been for some time.

Right now, there are 11 million people living in a shadow economy. There are Americans waiting in long lines to reunite with their families. There are employers who are exploiting the system by hiring undocumented workers, and that threatens the wages and working conditions of American workers. None of this is good for the economy, and it isn’t fair for the middle class.

So President Obama is determined to fix this broken system so that everyone plays by the same rules, and we wanted to make sure you get the details. Here's what he wants to do:

-- First, continue to improve the security on our borders;

-- Second, crack down on the companies that hire undocumented workers;

-- Third, provide undocumented immigrants the chance to earn their citizenship and hold them accountable by requiring that they learn English, pay taxes and a penalty, move to the back of the line, and pass background checks; and

-- Fourth, streamline the legal immigration system for families, workers, and businesses.

The good news is that lawmakers from both parties agree with that basic set of principles, and a bipartisan group of Senators is already working on a bill that's consistent with President Obama's proposal. That's big.



OK, so there is a basic set of principles that everyone can agree on. What could go wrong?
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Axtremus
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Jan 31 2013, 10:09 AM
OK, so there is a basic set of principles that everyone can agree on. What could go wrong?
Are you sure everyone can agree on all the four listed principles?

Rich Lowry and Rush Limbaugh, for examples, don't seem all that enthusiastic about #3, for instance:

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/marco-rubios-bad-deal-86965.html?hp=f1

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/339337/marco-rubio-rush-limbaugh-and-crux-matter-rich-lowry
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