Thread: Immigration reform tough during crisis, Biden says

Immigration reform tough during crisis, Biden says
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1 of 1Full SizeSAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - The economic slump and soaring unemployment in the United States mean this is not a good time to push immigration reform, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told Central American leaders on Monday.

"It's difficult to tell a constituency while unemployment is rising, they're losing their jobs and their homes, that what we should do is in fact legalize (illegal immigrants) and stop all deportation," Biden told a news conference in the Costa Rican capital.

President Barack Obama said during his election campaign that he supported comprehensive immigration reform, as countries like Mexico have been urging for years.

Some 12 million illegal immigrants live in the United States, many from Mexico and Central America. The economic crisis has made many U.S. workers more hostile to legalizing those without papers.

"We believe, the president and I, that this problem can only be solved in the context of an overall immigration reform," Biden said, asked about the chances of extending temporary migrant protection programs.

"We need some forbearance as we try to put together a comprehensive approach to deal with this."

Biden was in Costa Rica to meet Central American leaders at an informal regional summit.

A comprehensive overhaul of immigration laws -- including plans for a guest worker program -- was killed off by Republicans in the U.S. Senate in 2007, although many Central Americans have been able to stay in the United States under the Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, system.

(Reporting by John McPhaul; Editing by Eric Beech)

http://www.reuters.com/article/politics ... SE20090330

NOT GOOD ENOUGH BIDEN!!!!


SEND THOSE PEOPLE PACKING AT THE BELLINGHAM WASHINGTON PLANT.


AND GET OF OF THE WAY OF SHERIFF JOE AND LET HIM DO HIS JOB!!

""We believe, the president and I, that this problem can only be solved in the context of an overall immigration reform," Biden said, asked about the chances of extending temporary migrant protection programs.

""We need some forbearance as we try to put together a comprehensive approach to deal with this."

"Biden was in Costa Rica to meet Central American leaders at an informal regional summit."

Forebear this, Biden, you need forbearance enforcing US Immigration, US Labor and US Civil Rights law for the people of the United States.

You need to have some "informal regional summits" in Harlem and Watts, Amigo, not Costa Rica. Get a map and famiiarize yourself with directions to the country you're paid to represent, then grab a King and I story written for the benefit of the American People.