We Need A Middle Ground on Immigration Reform, NOW!
WASHINGTON, April 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/
-- House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi issued the following statement today in response to
President Bush's remarks on immigration reform:
"The President should work collaboratively and on a bipartisan basis to
pass comprehensive immigration reform. He should embrace proposals such as
the STRIVE Act by Congressmen Gutierrez and Flake, which provides an
excellent framework and reflects a strong commitment by a bipartisan group
of House Members toward realistic and comprehensive immigration reform.
"Our priorities on immigration reform are clear. Our first
responsibility to the American people is their safety. We must secure our
borders and enforce our laws, while also protecting against discrimination
and adhering faithfully to the rule of law. At the same time, we must enact
immigration reform that is humane and honors our American tradition of
being a nation of immigrants.
"By starting House Judiciary Committee hearings and introducing the
STRIVE Act last month, the House has already begun the hard work of
addressing immigration reform."
SOURCE Office of the Speaker of the House
WASHINGTON, April 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On the fourth
anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, President Bush decided his best PR
photo op would come on the Arizona border with Mexico, touting his
immigration proposal. The PR stunt, however, doesn't distract from Iraq so
much as it highlights another problem for Republicans, their failures on
border security and their internal strife on immigration reform.
He also failed to mention the fact that Republicans never actually funded
the 700-mile border fence they passed as a PR gimmick before the 2006
election. [Associated Press, 4/09/07; Washington Post, 10/12/06; Washington
Post, 10/6/06]
<--Lets change this
Immigration reform strategies are all over the place, it isabout time we start coming together and with a realistic view. It would be bothfinancially and physically impossible to accommodate the far right wing nuts anddeport all 12-20 million (estimated # of them) illegal immigrants, and it issimply ridiculous to let it continue the way it is as the far left nuts wouldhave it. I'm not against "loosening up" a bit, but I AM against anyoneand everyone coming and going as they please.
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