Passing Health Care and Energy Bills Part of Plan to Pass Amnesty for illegals!
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 Obama Official: Immigration Reform Will Be Introduced Once Votes to Pass It Are Assured
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor
October 31, 2009
The Obama administration will push for immigration reform in Congress
once Democrats are certain they have enough votes to pass it, Interior
Secretary Ken Salazar said Tuesday in Washington.
According to the Spanish-language newspaper La Opinión, Salazar
attended an event organized by the National Association of Hispanic
Publications, where he said the reform bill “will be introduced when
there is certainty as to the availability of the necessary votes for it
to be approved,” reporter Antonieta Cádiz wrote.
With immigration becoming an increasingly
controversial issue and the Democrats’ health care reform plan about to
reach the Senate floor for a contentious debate, the statement would
seem to place some doubt on when (or even whether) the
administration-backed bill being prepared by Sen. Charles Schumer will
actually be introduced.
At the same time, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D- Illinios), who’s
authoring a bill of his own to be introduced in the House, warned
Tuesday that there will be a short window for immigration reform to be
debated –and eventually passed– after the approval of the health care
bill and before the start of campaigning for the 2010 Congressional
election.
La Opinión reported that Salazar said he has participated in
meetings to analyze the political viability of the legislation,
together with Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and Homeland Security
Secretary Janet Napolitano, according to the report.
“We’ve worked really hard, but this is an issue that depends on
time and on how we deal with the important points in the agenda… It can
be expected that the administration will not withdraw its support from
reform”, he said, according to a quote in Spanish.
“But it is essential that we don’t fail this time, that we are sure that this will happen”, he added.
After a health care debate that promises to be highly fractious, it
remains to be seen how much political stamina the administration and
Democratic leaders in Congress have to push another highly
controversial issue — and one that has been manipulated by both parties
in previous elections. Some Democrats have been wary of even talking
about immigration reform while campaigning, although results from the
November 2008 vote showed that a great majority of hardliners on the
issue lost their races.
Gutierrez appeared Tuesday on the NPR show Tell Me More, where he
said the window to pass immigration reform next year “is very small.”
He explained,
“…you do health care, you get the energy bill passed in the House
and the Senate. Get both of those bills signed by the president. That
should bring us to about the beginning of February and that’s the
window, I think you have that window of February and March.
“And once you go into April, you really have a diminishing
opportunity because you do have the midterm elections getting closer
and closer.”
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