Also on Obama's plate: an immigration bill

[lovuian]

http://www.mercurynews.com/politics/ci_12102370?source=rss

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.

"He intends to start the debate
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I can't wait to see how they justify a 15% unemployment rate and the legalizing of 12 million ilegals

this I got to see

[Luciferous]

Why should we reward people for breaking the law? nt

[Political Heretic]

2. Ask that about Wall Street.

[virgogal]

1. Should be interesting.

[Double T]

3. I for one will fight like hell to see the illegal aliens are returned to their country of origin..

where they can straighten out their own country's messes. Be assured it isn't going to happen.

[goforit]

4. Another Bush policy supported by Obama. New World Order right on track.

[RB TexLa]

5. Good, we need to give them the opportunity to obtain legal status

And learning how to speak any particular language shouldn't be any part of it.

[depakid]

6. Nothing like immigration issues to get otherwise reasonable folks riled up