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| Senate set to take up immigration reform bill |
| 2010-11-26 |
| [Washington Examiner] While politicians will be pressing the House to address expiring tax cuts and an arms treaty with Russia when Congress returns this week from its Thanksgiving break, Democratic leaders in the Senate plan to make one last effort to pass an immigration reform bill before their majority diminishes significantly in January. With just a few weeks left in the 112th Congress, it will be difficult for politicians to clear the DREAM Act in time for the president's signature this year, but it will nonetheless consume part of the shrinking lame-duck calendar. The DREAM Act would provide a path to citizenship for anyone under the age of 35 who came to the United States as a child and who enrolls in the military or college for two years. The proposal won its place on the agenda in part because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, ... the charismatic former Senate majority leader ... D-Nev., promised on the campaign trail that he would take it up this year, arguably helping to secure the Hispanic votes he needed to overcome Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle. Immigration reform advocates see the lame-duck session as perhaps the last chance to pass such reforms since Republicans will take control of the House and expand their minority in the Senate in January. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 (On Soap box, with megaphone) First, seal the borders. This is for the immigrants' sake as well as our own; too many of them are abandoned by the Coyotes, and too many people die in the desert. Remember that semi trailer full of people dying of heatstroke because the trucker abandoned them? The authorities find dead bodies in the desert with no ID, no way of notifying the relatives that their husband, son, sister, daughter died of dehydration out in the middle of nowhere. Also at the beginning of the list: Audit and overhaul the Immigration bureaucracy. I think Immigration has the most idiotic and crooked bureaucrats outside of Chicago City Hall. For Example: *the bureaucrat who tried to tell my friend that her Canadian husband and her daughters would need $10K in fees each to become citizens. She said "Nonsense" and went to his supervisor. Got that straightened out. But I can't imagine Juan and Maria from Honduras knowing how to deal with bureaucrats like that. *The sluggards in the nearest ICE office (an hour and a half from here) who let my South American friend's paperwork expire and told her she had to reapply. "But you've had that paperwork in your office for six months!" Too bad; she had to reapply several times because Immigration let the paperwork lapse. *Daughter gave up on waiting for fiance's visa to come through, went to his country and got married there. They bounced his visa the first time because, in the nine months between the time she filed and the time they got around to looking at the papers, they'd changed the rules. Any other govt dept would say, "Your paperwork was correct as of the filing date. Under the new rules we need Document X, so please send us Document X". Not Immigration. They bounced the entire application and ate the $600 fee. If you dot all your i's and cross all your t's and pony up $600 per application and also hire an immigration lawyer to help you navigate the system, it still takes as long as four years to get a fiance or spouse visa. Then your neighbors throw brickbats because your spouse belongs to That Group. Your neighbors think your spouse is illegal, even though you've busted your butt and your bank to do the right thing (see posting from a Rantburgundian a few months ago whose son-in-law, here legally, was being harassed in AZ). This is what happens to people who FOLLOW the rules. No wonder so many people come illegally; if you follow the rules, you still get screwed. |
| Posted by: mom 2010-11-26 17:25 |
| #3 No, Reid's still the Senate Majority Leader. I wouldn't say he's charismatic though. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2010-11-26 13:47 |
| #2 So, will those who take advantage of the "Dream Act" turn in their illegally obtained voter registration cards, drivers licenses, food stamps, wellfare payments and medicaid cards. Will the american public have a chance to read the fine print before a congressional vote or will we have to wait until it's passed to see the marvelous thing Harry has done. |
| Posted by: R.U. Cereus 2010-11-26 13:19 |
| #1 Rat ba$tard traitors. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2010-11-26 01:49 |