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05-02-2010, 07:32 AM

The Senate Democrats released a proposal for comprehensive immigration reform a few days ago.

It includes increase ICE funding for border patrol and drug interdiction, a controversial national biometric ID card for all workers and a tough pathway to citizenship.

Full proposal

The Republicans have called it DOA and have made it clear they wont support a proposal that includes providing a process for citizenship to current illegal immigrants in the country and dismissed it as amnesty.

They also dont like the national ID card (neither does the ACLU ) but have no problem requiring Hispanices in AZ to carry their immigration papers.

The last attempt at comprehensive immigration reform, the 2007 Kennedy-McCain Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act was a pretty good bill. Unfortunately, once McCain got the Republican nomination, he had to demonstrate his conservative credentials and backed away from his own bill and would not endorse it because of strong conservative opposition to the citizenship component of the bill.

05-02-2010, 07:32 AM	#7
Redux Guest Posts: n/a	The Senate Democrats released a proposal for comprehensive immigration reform a few days ago. It includes increase ICE funding for border patrol and drug interdiction, a controversial national biometric ID card for all workers and a tough pathway to citizenship. Full proposal The Republicans have called it DOA and have made it clear they wont support a proposal that includes providing a process for citizenship to current illegal immigrants in the country and dismissed it as amnesty. They also dont like the national ID card (neither does the ACLU ) but have no problem requiring Hispanices in AZ to carry their immigration papers. The last attempt at comprehensive immigration reform, the 2007 Kennedy-McCain Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act was a pretty good bill. Unfortunately, once McCain got the Republican nomination, he had to demonstrate his conservative credentials and backed away from his own bill and would not endorse it because of strong conservative opposition to the citizenship component of the bill. Last edited by Redux; 05-02-2010 at 07:55 AM.