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Immigration reformers will seek to pass Dream Act in lame duck session of congress

Posted on Friday, August 20, 2010 at 08:43 PM
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Immigration advocates are about to admit defeat on comprehensive reform and are looking at a much more incremental approach to immigration reform.

That comes after a soul searching analysis by many of the key figures and financial backers who now see that, given the country's mood, the prospect for comprehensive reform is pretty much non-existent.

The new plan that will likely emerge will take issues such as the Dream Act, which would legalize immigrants who were brought here as small children and seek to legalize them.

Immigrant rights campaigners desperately need a victory. The overall plan is not possible at this stage and they are right to focus on what is possible.

The current thinking is that a lame duck congress could pass the Dream Act which is supported by many moderate Republican senators.

Advocates for the Dream Act have stayed on board with the comprehensive effort to this point but are increasingly of the opinion that it is time to seek to pass their bill first.

It is hard to disagree with them. The worst cases of immigration law usually involve children and minors who have spent most of their lives in America and know no other home .

Through no fault of their own they were brought to this country at a young age and now are caught in a permanent limbo.

It makes perfect sense to try and pass that legislation first.

It is good to see that a long overdue sense of reality has finally seemed to enter the mindset of immigration campaigners.



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maloney | Sep 03, 2010, 12:43 PM EDT
I have lived in Brownsville Tx. & Scottsdale Az. Now NC. They don't do jobs Americans won't do, They do any job the crooked business man gives them for half of the minimum wage, working under the table, not paying taxes. They are enslaved by this situation. While the crooked polititions & employers get rich. At the same time the same illegals collect welfare, foodstamps & every other govt. handout available. You can't help them, they won't help themselves. Give them rubbers for birth control & the children use them as baloons. Give them seeds to plant & they eat the seeds. You stupid liberals are really the illegals worst enemies because all you do is throw them a bone so you can pat yourselves on the back & tell the world what wonderful people you are. You talk about something you know nothing about showing your stupidity every time you open your mouthes.

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blst4m4ev | Sep 03, 2010, 09:41 AM EDT
I agree with you, Maloney. the US can't support the world. Immigrants who come into the country should come in legally and follow the legal process. The thousands that come in illegally every year are eating the US from the inside. Our southern border IS starting to look like the poor, crime-ridden place they left.

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maireadinmelb | Sep 03, 2010, 05:26 AM EDT
BTW if we did not go following the US into stupid wars that are supposed to bring democracy (a democracy that cannot be guaranteed to your own people -see the patriot act) we would not have enemies!! Every western democracy has a responsibility to help those in the rest of the world who supply the OIL and GOLD our wealth is built on! So either help make their countries better ie irradicate diseases globally not just in western countries and you wont have to worry about the illness an immigrant will bring!!

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maireadinmelb | Sep 03, 2010, 05:23 AM EDT
Say that to those immigrants who work hard every day in teh jobs that americans dont want or want do!! Let them come earn a living and build a life and you will see they are people just like you who want nothing more than to build a life and a home!!

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maloney | Sep 02, 2010, 08:07 PM EDT
maireadinmelb...poor clueless dolt. They pour across the US border like cockroaches or rats, bringing sickness & disease, bedbugs & crime. They want to make America into the same hellhole they left behind. They don't want to learn the language or follow the laws. The biggest problem as I see it is they keep good people from other countries from coming here because of quotas, including the Irish so don't talk about what you don't know. The US has laws & they should be obeyed. This is not welfare for the world. If the US goes down who will bail out your arses when it hits the fan?

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Monsoonman | Aug 31, 2010, 11:11 PM EDT
What in the heck are they putting in the water in Melbourne....LAD!!!!!

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maireadinmelb | Aug 31, 2010, 06:16 AM EDT
Oh poor hard done by white middle class americans - off you go and have another tea party!! Could not dare celebrate the fact that your nation is built on the back of immigration!! (careful throwing around that free health cover I am sure you will take it back when you can)

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IrishAndProud | Aug 31, 2010, 12:00 AM EDT
One post I saw put it well (though I don't know where it originated). It says, thusly [BEGIN QUOTE]: If you cross the Chinese border illegally you may never be heard from again. If you cross the Venezuelan border illegally you will be branded a spy and your fate will be sealed. If you cross the Mexican borders illegally you will jailed for two years. If you cross the Cuban border illegally you will be thrown into political prison to rot. If you cross the United States border illegally you get: 1 - A job, 2 - A driver's license, 3 - A Social Security card, 4 - Welfare, 5 - Food stamps, 6 - Credit cards, 7 - Subsidized rent or a loan to buy a house, 8 - Free education, 9 - Free health care, 10 - A lobbyist in Washington, 11 - Billions of dollars in public documents printed in your language, 12 - Millions of servicemen and women who are willing to -and do - die for your right to the ways and means of our constitution, 13 - And the right to carry the flag of your country - the one you walked out on - while you call America racist and protest that you don't get enough respect.

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Monsoonman | Aug 29, 2010, 01:50 PM EDT
May I recommend an evelyn woods reading course for ya? It is the USA laws, not the WORLDS. Get over it.

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maireadinmelb | Aug 29, 2010, 06:28 AM EDT
THen prove it my putting those documents into practice! If you want to be treated in accordance to those rights you need to treat others, ALL OTHERS the same way! Otherwise those documents are worthless as is your idea of being a beacon for others to follow!!

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Monsoonman | Aug 28, 2010, 07:19 PM EDT
It is the US Constitution and the US Bill of Rights. Yes America wants to see other countries adopt its model so they can have some semblance of freedom too, but our country is a sovereign country and its laws are sovereign. Sorry but it is not the worlds country, we are just the shining beacon on the hill for others to aspire too.

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maireadinmelb | Aug 28, 2010, 06:41 PM EDT
If you are aware of any of Thomas Jefferson's writings and study he wrote not just for americans. THat is why he and Adams fell out. Further it is all based on the French document "The rights of man" Further supposedly the americans were so eager for the UN to promote this ideology the world over!! Either you believe the words "that all men are created equal" or you dont - there is no exemptions, just hypocrisy! And dont forget with rights comes responsibility ie protecting the rights of all not just yourself!!

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Monsoonman | Aug 28, 2010, 11:36 AM EDT
The US constitution and bill of rights were written for United States Citizens. Otherwise they would be called the World Constitution and the World Bill of Rights. This is the same type of attitude that doesn't think the US should protect its borders or citizens....Can't wait for the pendulum swing that is going to happen in November, the locusts will go back under their rocks for 17 years.

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maireadinmelb | Aug 28, 2010, 04:40 AM EDT
longislander1940 - "you have no rights unless you are an american citizen" Are you insane?? For aren't all people created equal?? Are not all people born from a woman's body?? What makes you better than any other human on this planet!!! READ the Declaration of Human Rights!! or even your own constitution!! That comment is terrible!

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Taylor55 | Aug 26, 2010, 05:51 PM EDT
Legalization Airlines: http://www.mojaveairport.com/aircraftstorage.htm "Your Existing Path to Citizenship!!. Enjoy your flight."

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