http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/24/politics/immigration-reform/index.html?hpt=po_c2
President Obama feels that the immigration issue has been put on the back burner for too long, and he is optimistic that an immigration reform will be resolved within the year. Other sources in Congress say that it doesn't look too promising to have something resolved that quickly because of the differing veiws and bad will between the House and the Senate.
The Senate tried passing a bill in June, but the House wanted a number of smaller bills instead of one big package. Since then the House has been frusterated with the unwilingness of the president and the Senate to work with them on revisions.
Another question is whether they deal with securing the borders or illegal immigrants already in the country first.
Though polls show that the public is eager for reform, as is Congress, it seems unlikely that anything will be resolved as quickly as this year.
I think this is a relativley important issue that should be dealt with sooner than later. I also think that they should first focus on securing the borders before they deal with illegal immigrants. But once they do secure the border I really just vote that every immigrant gets citizenship and a nice place to live and a good job and that everyone is just happy and well!! Although it isn't quite that easy, I think it should be relativley un-difficult to become a citizen of the United States. I feel really strongly that immigrants are what built this country and can continue to build it. It shouldn't be nearly impossible for them to be here legally, or else they're just gonna be here illegaly. So... they should work on that reform. But they should be nice to immigrants.
Immigration is a hard issue to juggle for me at least because I see reasonable benefits to different stances. You can be kind and accept illegals or you can be tough and send them back until they become citizens. I think they need to strengthen the borders, first off. Immigrants have built this country like you said and we still need to make easy to immigrate to out country.
ReplyDeleteI think that the only requisite to emigrating from a foreign country into our country ought to be lack of outstanding warrants for arrest. Hence, if someone is found to have immigrated to our country unofficially and alos committed a crime, then they would simply be deported (or possibly sentenced for their crime). However, if no crime was committed, then the immigrants should just be documented and eventually granted their citizenship.
ReplyDeleteI think what you're saying makes sense. If they want to secure the border then fine, but good, law-abiding people who are already living here should become citizens as soon as possible.
ReplyDeleteI'm not too big on the immigration issue, but I do think we need to secure our borders more efficiently. We can't have all of Mexico coming up here, so I think our government should help out Mexico's government so that they won't have a reason to come up here. This would be hard though considering it's more drug lords and poverty that cause the move.
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