Eight year path to green cards for illegals in White House proposal

The story "Eight year path to green cards for illegals in White House proposal" by Naill O'Dowd is most welcome news. Cooincidently, i have started a petition on WhiteHouse.gov to ask President Obama to consider letting the time spent here illegally to be counted as "time served" as is the case with those charged with a crime and who have been held pending sentencing. Illegal immigrants are, in my opinion, in internal exile. They can't contract, buy insurance, buy homes or apartments, vote, or do such ordinary things that citizens can do. They are here but not here at the same time. I beleive immigrants who struggle to get here and who have struggled to stay here just simply want to be Americans. I also beleive these immigrants have benefited the American economy and would do more so after legalization. Please visit the WhiteHouse.gov web site or just click this link :https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/immigration-out-shadows/ZS09GFs4 , or : http://wh.gov/dG8l . If clicking on either of these two links, just copy and paste one of them to your browser. Please also copy these two links to your e-mail and pass them around to as many as you can. The petition needs 150 signers before the WhiteHouse will publish the petition. But using these two links will get you directly to the petition. Also, if you wish, i can e-mail the links directly. My e-mail is allerggatmsndotcom.

Nicomax: Very few Irish ever enter the U.S. illegally - and we all speak English. You seem to suggest that all Irish immigrants should be "shipped back to Ireland". Do you include those of us who have acquired U.S. citizenship after HONORABLY serving uin the U.S. military among those you want"shipped back"? During my 4 years in the Marine Corps I only met one marine who was Mexican and NONE from India.

We do not have enough jobs for our own citizens! How would you feel if immigrants sneaked into your country and took what jobs are left? Steal a Social Security # and used it to get on government perks, that are for poor citizens? I have read that many countries have this same problem, so why is the USA the country people bad mouth, when their citizens do not want amnesty?

No amnesty at all for illegals? Then why do we every now and then offer amnesty to tax evaders so they can pay just some of what they owe? If amnesty is bad then it should apply to all law breakers- thus for the off-shore money folks- JAIL, JAIL, JAIL!

illegals OUT OUT OUT

The underlying fact of the immigration issue, but seldom mentioned, is it's not the illegals people are concerned about, but the legals. Just note Rand Paul's diatribe this week about shipping "them back to Mexico"- no mention of Ireland, India, etc.

I've never heard of any Americans sneaking into Ireland to take jobs away from the ROI.

John McCain was asked if ANY bill that the President submitted would have a chance of passing regardless of what it contained. His answer was a simple NO!

I am afraid that immigration reform and gun control will have similar results. We will legalize the ones here now but others will continue to flow in. We will have restrictions on guns that will affect law abiding citizens but criminals will still have guns. Well intended laws that don't solve the problem.

Steven, reading of yet another highly publicized incident in Perth, I am not so sure the welcome mat will be out for Irish people planning on relocating there.

The above article does not memtion a word about sealing the Southern border through which the masjority of the 12 million 'indocumented' aliens ILLEGALLY entered.I don't clearly understand the meaning of "family-sponsored immigration system", but same-sex partners will benefit from the proposed reform. We know that the R.C. Church strongly supports amnesty for all ILLEGALS who crossed the Southern border, but will it now accord same-sex families the same recognization as it does to couples with their own bioligical children? Does this bill still allow future ILLEGALS to find safe havens in Sanctuary Cities?

There would be no illegal Irish in the USA, had it not been for your beloved Kennedys!

50,000 ILLIGAL IRISH IN AMERICA.. MY HEART GOES OUT TO YOU... IM SURE MOST WOULD LOVE TO GET OUT OF TERE COME AND AND MAYBE MOVE TO CANADA, ENGLAND OR AUSTRALIA AS YOU'LL BE MORE WELCOME THERE.. AND THATS WHY IN 2013 NO IRISH REALLY MOVE TO AMERICA ANYMORE..AND WHO CAN BLAME THEM.. !