Thread: Immigration Demands Heat Up Before Obama Takes Over

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Immigration Demands Heat Up Before Obama Takes Over

The New York Carib News, News Report, Tony Best, Posted: Jan 05, 2009

Weeks before President-elect Barack Obama officially takes office in Washington, calls for a comprehensive immigration reform package are getting louder.

And the calls are coming from lawmakers, academics, immigration advocates and newspaper editorials. What they are demanding is early attention to be paid to the immigration issue, which, understandably, was placed on the backburner during the two-year election campaign that culminated in the Obama victory over Senator John McCain on November 4th.

“There are myriad claims to Barack Obama’s attention and the list will only grow before January 20,â€

[quote]Dr. Mason couldn’t agree more. “President Obama would be telling the world that humanity has returned to U.S. immigration policies,â€

Obama's first focus is going to be the economy. And while he may multi-task, I pray he realizes that continual influxes of illegals is taking jobs from desperate Americans who need only to feed their families. I hope he realizes that the crush of illegals taking advantage of benefits American taxpayer subsidize is draining the coffers of states and the federal gov't. He should realize the elections are getting skewed as districts are redrawn due to the mass of illegals to one area, which means representation without taxation.

1. Even Blue Dog Democrats are with us on this one.. No Amnesty and

2. You think people want to cede from this corrupt country now.. wait till it is passed

3. At the very least expect tax revolts

[quote]“He can do all of this with just the stroke of a pen.â€

Mason, Marco
Associate Professor
Social & Behavioral Sciences
718-270-4850
marcomason@aol.com

Jorge Castañeda
jorge.castaneda@nyu.edu
Global Distinguished Professor, Politics and Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Ph.D., University of Paris, 1978
Specialties: Inter-American relations; Mexican politics; Latin American politics

BIO--

Jorge Castañeda, Global Distinguished Professor of Politics and Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Jorge Castañeda is a renowned public intellectual, political scientist, and prolific writer, with an interest in Latin American politics, comparative politics and U.S.-Latin American relations. He was Foreign Minister of Mexico from 2000 to 2003, and in that position he focused on diverse issues in U.S.-Mexican relations, including migration, trade, security, and narcotics control; joint diplomatic initiatives on the part of Latin American nations; and the promotion of Mexican economic and trade relations globally.

Born in Mexico City in 1953, Dr. Castañeda received undergraduate degrees from both Princeton University and Universite de Paris-I (Pantheon-Sorbonne), an M.A. from The Ecole Pratique de Hautes Etudes, Paris I, and his Ph.D. in Economic History from the University of Paris. He has taught at Mexico's National Autonomous University (UNAM), Princeton and U.C. Berkeley. Dr. Castañeda was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1985-87), and was a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant Recipient (1989-1991). He is a member of the Board of Human Rights Watch, and since 2003 has hosted “Voices of Latin American Leadersâ€

What a fool and idiot!!

[quote]he runs the risk of no longer possessing the leverage to convince his party’s legislators to brace the furies of the extreme right wing.â€

[quote]Prof. Castaneda, however, put it differently. “Immigration reform is the sort of complex and costly project that, as a rule, presidents accomplish only at the peak of their power –when their term begins,â€

AirborneSapper7 wrote:

1. Even Blue Dog Democrats are with us on this one.. No Amnesty and

Not all of them. Some of the Blue Dog Democrats support comprehensive immigration reform (amnesty).