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Obama Pushes Back Timeline on Amnesty push to early 2010!
Posted on Sunday, August 09 @ 16:33:18 EDT
Topic: Barack Obama Campaign for President
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 ALIPAC NOTE: This is good news! The further into 2010 we can get the less likely that DC politicians will push forward and vote for Obama's AMNESTY plan for illegal aliens since Americans oppose this legislation by over 66%!
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President
Barack Obama said on Friday he expects Congress to overhaul the
country's immigration system, an issue that fires up emotions on both
sides of the political divide, by "early next year."
Speaking
to Hispanic reporters at the White House, Obama said he hopes a bill
for comprehensive immigration reform will be drafted by the end of this
year.
Obama tapped Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on June 25 to
work with Congress to speed up immigration reform as senators warned
another failed effort could doom chances for a generation.
Fri Aug 7, 2009
Reuters Biased News Wire Service
Obama said he asked Napolitano to meet regularly
with lawmakers to systematically work through a number of controversial
issues, such as how to handle the 12 million illegal immigrants already
in the United States and how to prevent future illegal immigration.
"We have convened a meeting of all the relevant stakeholders, and
Secretary Napolitano is working with the group to start creating the
framework for a comprehensive immigration reform," the president said.
Congress failed in 2006 and 2007 to pass immigration reform despite a push by former Republican President George W. Bush.
Earlier this year, Vice President Joe Biden said the U.S. economic
slump and soaring unemployment made it a bad time to take on the issue.
Obama has been criticized for not following through on a campaign
pledge to tackle the issue this year. He has urged the
Democratic-controlled Congress to start pushing now to pass
legislation.
Asked if an immigration bill would have enough votes to pass
Congress, Obama said he did not know. He also noted as a further
complication that next year is an election year.
Obama
joked that his opponents had another reason to block his immigration
reform effort: "There are many members of the Republican Party who
think now that I am illegal immigrant," he said.
Anti-Obama activists have claimed that the president, the son of a
Kenyan man and a U.S. woman, was born in Kenya and ineligible to be
U.S. president.
(Reporting by Anthony Boadle, editing by Philip Barbara)
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