Will the President plan for immigration reform really help udocumented workers?

[helpmetohelpyou]

The president's plan will allow undocumented immigrants who are parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents, known as green card holders, to register with the federal government and, if approved, receive a three-year protection from any deportation.


I wish he would go further but I understand he can't but will people actually come out and do this?

Sounds more like a trap

[Cali_Democrat]

1. You think he's just trying to get them out of the shadows so he can eventually deport them?

[helpmetohelpyou]

3. No but what happens if a republican wins in 2016 , you don't think that's in their minds?

It would be in most people who are thinking about doing this.

I think undocumented workers will avoid this and not register

[Rex]

6. Both Reagan and Bush Sr. did the EXACT same thing as Obama and they survived

but that was different...because...you know...

[helpmetohelpyou]

10. No Reagan gave amnesty

There wasn't a 3 year limit

[Rex]

12. Did Dems threaten to impeach Reagan or Bush or did they shutdown the government?

Three years is a lot of time to get your house in order.

At least Dems acted like adults and didn't cost the taxpayers billions of dollars having a huge cry over their own incompetence. The GOP cannot say the same thing.

[helpmetohelpyou]

18. Why are you making this an argument about the GOP?

They don't care about immigration reform
If they did they had 8 years to do it with Bush

If you remember the congress and senate was pretty united during the first few years

Democrats and Republicans actually talked to one another in both houses.


This isn't about republicans this is about this plan for reform of immigration tonight.

Nothing will change because they won't register with this 3 year limit

[Rex]

19. Well Obama is helping people that would otherwise spend months in ICE

before being thrown back across the border, you really think this is a plan to blackmail these folks somewhere down the line? Good luck with that. Nobody is going to believe that garbage.

Does it bother you that Bush and Reagan did the exact same thing? Do you believe in amnesty?

[helpmetohelpyou]

21. They absolutley will think this could go very bad for them.

"Nobody is going to believe that garbage"


Talk to some and just ask them , that's all just ask them

That's what I did

[Rex]

23. Talk to some of them? I live in south Texas

in a rural town, my neighbors are them and you couldn't be more wrong even if you tried.

[helpmetohelpyou]

24. Did you ask them about it? the 3 year plan?

Then I disagree with you because I know many undocumented workers also
and call many of them my friends
and they feel this can go bad for the ones who register .

I work in the food service industry

[msanthrope]

27. You Better Believe It!!! nt

[arcane1]

2. A trap for what?

Who is doing the trapping, and what is the trap?

[helpmetohelpyou]

5. It has the sound of being told to register your gun but we promise

we will never use it against you.

[arcane1]

7. Use what against them? Their new legal status?

[helpmetohelpyou]

9. for 3 years

[1StrongBlackMan]

26. Wouldn't that mean ...

there will be 2 years (until the 2016 elections) of pressure on Republicans to get a law passed?

[helpmetohelpyou]

31. hope so

[stone space]

13. What is the problem with being told to register your gun? (nt)

[helpmetohelpyou]

15. It's never followed because of distrust of the goverment

Just like this

[stone space]

16. Do you feel that you need your guns to fight the government? (nt)

[Rex]

20. What caused your initial distrust of government?

[helpmetohelpyou]

22. Initial ?

Vietnam War

[Rex]

4. Everyone look out!

[helpmetohelpyou]

8. Dear Federal goverment , You promise you won't deport me for 3 years

All I have to do is register with you , tell you where I work , live

Hell yeah sign me up!

[Rex]

11. Dude, if that worries you I have some bad news...there is this group called the NSA

and they have gone far far beyond just holding some paperwork against you. Did you know they spy on all your calls and dig through your emails?

What you worry about is small potatoes to what has been going on for the last 30 years! Glad to see you waking up to the Big Brother state!

You don't even want to hear about this other group called the CIA.

[helpmetohelpyou]

14. It's not going to work

I would be surprised if even 1% of the 5 million register with this plan

I'll be curious to see the numbers if they are ever made public which they
probably won't be.

[Rex]

17. Time will tell.

I won't bet on all 5 million showing up, but I do bet on far more than 1%.

[ctaylors6]

25. I wonder if will be affected

by who they think will be president in 2 years?

[stone space]

28. Are you undocumented?

You promise you won't deport me for 3 years

[helpmetohelpyou]

30. no

[stone space]

32. Then you probably won't be deported.

Of course, there's no guarantee, since citizens do get deported from time to time, but if I were you, I'd register all of my guns (or better yet, have them all melted down), and stop worrying so much.

[yeoman6987]

29. How much do they have to pay for this to happen?

I heard fine in there somewhere. Will it be reasonable?