Immigration

[carson]

Not a troll thread, just a question. Why does Obama want to push this immigration bill..guest worker..so hard? I see the Republican side and comments, but I do not understand what the upside is. Opinion?

 

[Seaducer]

how many people do you hire on an annual basis?
I don't mean that to sound like a smartass comment but I always find a
breaking point among my Repub friends based on the amount of people they personally employ

 

[carson]

how many people do you hire on an annual basis?
I don't mean that to sound like a smartass comment but I always find a
breaking point among my Repub friends based on the amount of people they personally employ

Personally three but as a restaurant developer 100s.

 

[meggiemom]

I was watching a press conference with the president and one of the reporters asked him if he thought he had the authority to act as "emperor King" with regard to immigration. The reporters words not mine. I always thought the executive branch's function was to enforce laws, not circumvent them.

 

[poppy]

Two of the last three Republican presidents, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, did the same thing in extending amnesty to family members who were not covered by the last major overhaul of immigration law in 1986. Republicans didn't have a s**t fit back then.

In 1986, Congress and Reagan enacted a sweeping overhaul that gave legal status to up to 3 million immigrants without authorization to be in the country, if they had come to the U.S. before 1982. Spouses and children who could not meet that test did not qualify, which incited protests that the new law was breaking up families.
Early efforts in Congress to amend the law to cover family members failed. In 1987, Reagan's Immigration and Naturalization Service commissioner announced that minor children of parents granted amnesty by the law would get protection from deportation.

In a parallel to today, the Senate acted in 1989 to broaden legal status to families but the House never took up the bill. Through the INS, Bush advanced a new "family fairness" policy that put in place the Senate measure. Congress passed the policy into law by the end of the year as part of broader immigration legislation.
"It's a striking parallel," said Mark Noferi of the pro-immigration American Immigration Council. "Bush Sr. went big at the time. He protected about 40 percent of the unauthorized population. Back then that was up to 1.5 million. Today that

 

[meggiemom]

I believe presidents should follow and enforce the law regardless of party.

 

[ottomatik]

Not a troll thread, just a question. Why does Obama want to push this immigration bill..guest worker..so hard? I see the Republican side and comments, but I do not understand what the upside is. Opinion?

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