Thread: National Hispanic Leadership Agenda List Their Demands For Immigration Reform

National Hispanic Leadership Agenda List Their Demands For Immigration Reform: Do You Agree?
Posted: 08/23/2012 2:06 pm



The 30-group coalition, the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda, has released a platform that they say political parties should adopt in order to woo the Latino vote. While calling for reform on a number of issues, it was their support for comprehensive immigration reform that may cause many on Capitol Hill to bristle.

We've listed their main points on immigration reform below. Read them over and let us know what you think. Do their demands fall in line with your own? Are their asks reasonable or has the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda gone too far?

• Enact comprehensive immigration reform that offers undocumented immigrants an earned path to legalization and citizenship, unites families, and allows workers to enter with the rights and protections that safeguard our workforce.
• Curtail the state and local enforcement of immigration laws, which inevitably lead to racial profiling and unnecessarily strained relations between police and local Latino communities.
• Enact the DREAM Act, in part, to give undocumented students a path to earned legalization and then citizenship, and in the interim, maintain a fair and orderly path to administrative relief (from removal) for DREAM Act-eligible individuals.
• Revisit per-country caps unfairly slowing down the orderly adjustment of Latino immigrants.
• Continue to reduce the average processing time for green card applicants and green card holders applying for naturalization.
• Recognize the important benefit that naturalization confers on our nation and the related critical significance of maintaining naturalization fees at an affordable level.
• Demilitarize the southwest border by replacing National Guard troops with civilian law enforcement officers and halting construction of walls and fences along the border.
• Invest in cost-effective alternatives to detention for those who do not pose a risk to public safety or are a flight risk.

National Hispanic Leadership Agenda List Their Demands For Immigration Reform: Do You Agree?

Are their asks reasonable or has the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda gone too far?

Of course they are going too far but then they feel empowered now under the current administration to 'demand' almost anything.

What other country allows such disrespect of immigration laws as ours?

I may have to get on blood pressure meds to help counter how upside down things are.

Every one of their demands imposes a hardship on American citizens.

First and foremost only citizens have a right to participate in gov't. If they attended school and paid attention, (doubtful) they know that they have no right to make demands or expect changes in our laws, and especially not to demand accomodations, Damn it, did not RR know this in '86 what he was doing to the country. Today, it is the damn democrats with Obama in the lead encouragaing and promoting them and thier casuses. Instead of spending money on this he should be repaying trillions of dollars to SSA, -gggrrrrr, - who am I to trust?

Hi
Im american Citizen & I Demands you all to go home . & tell your gov what you want not our Country
I Know for One is sick of all you BS Of Demands . you are not American Citizen at all
& yet you all want This & that well let me tell you something the party Is over sweet
as soon as Obama out of office . the party & the hand out over so wake up
so go & Demand what you want in your Country .
No amnesty Or Dream act

These people are just relentless in their demands. The more you give, the more they take. It's never enough. They don't deserve anything but to be deported back to where they come from. I'm sick of the whining and drama!

Originally Posted by Jean

Of course they are going too far but then they feel empowered now under the current administration to 'demand' almost anything.

What other country allows such disrespect of immigration laws as ours?

I may have to get on blood pressure meds to help counter how upside down things are.

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You won't recognize this country in another four years if Obama is reelected.

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Somewhere along the lines it seems that term Hispanic has become either a political party or a Union , it has never been a "race".