Obama to pitch immigration reform
By Ed Payne, CNNadministration officials said.
Under
the compromise plan by the senators, known as the "gang of eight,"
millions of undocumented immigrants would get immediate but provisional
status to live and work in the United States.
The
Democratic sources say the president will praise the Senate for the
bipartisan blueprint outlined Monday, while stressing that the issue
must not get bogged down in the kind of political fights that derailed
past bipartisan policy battles. According to sources, he will say there
have been bipartisan "gangs" before, and they don't always lead to
results.
The
senators' outline also called for strengthening border controls,
improved monitoring of visitors and cracking down on hiring undocumented
workers.
Only after
those steps occurred could the undocumented immigrants already in the
country begin the process of getting permanent residence -- green cards
-- as a step toward citizenship, the senators said at a news conference.
Conservatives split on reform
Florida
Sen. Marco Rubio, a tea party-backed conservative considered a rising
star in the Republican Party, said the goal was to create a "modern
immigration system" that treated everyone fairly, both the undocumented
and those waiting to come to America legally.
"None
of this is possible if we don't address the reality there are 11
million people in this country who are undocumented," Rubio said.
However,
another tea party-backed Republican, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, objected to
the framework by his colleagues, saying the guidelines "contemplate a
policy that will grant special benefits to undocumented immigrants based
on their unlawful presence in the country."
Other
conservatives immediately voiced their opposition to what they called
amnesty, a code word on the political right for providing undocumented
immigrants a path to legal status.
"When
you legalize those who are in the country illegally, it costs taxpayers
millions of dollars, costs American workers thousands of jobs and
encourages more illegal immigration," said Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas,
who serves on the immigration subcommittee in the House. "By granting
amnesty, the Senate proposal actually compounds the problem by
encouraging more illegal immigration."
A
litany of left-leaning advocacy groups spoke out on the senators' plan,
praising it as a good first step but cautioning against harming the
rights of workers.
"The
people of this country are ready for us to be one country again without
second-class people being mistreated simply because they lack paper,
even though they are already contributing to our economy and our tax
system," NAACP President Ben Jealous said.
Democratic
senators backing the plan include Chuck Schumer of New York, Dick
Durbin of Illinois, Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Michael Bennet of
Colorado. On the Republican side were Rubio, John McCain of Arizona,
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Jeff Flake of Arizona.
Durbin said Tuesday that immigration reform must have bipartisan support to work, so it won't include everything everyone wants.
"It's going to look different than what I might write, or the president might write," he said.http://www.coxbd2011,blogspot.com
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