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    OREGON - Immigration: Oregon groups unite

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    Immigration has dwindled as an issue in our nation’s capital, as the economic crisis has top priority. Local groups in Oregon and other states are pushing for comprehensive immigration reform, hoping to jump-start the conversation.

    Despite of their differences, three groups have come together to discuss the situation - businesses, unions and faith leaders — are teaming up to lobby legislators, raise awareness and add economic arguments to an often emotional debate.

    The three groups are asking lawmakers to halt all immigration-related legislation on the state level and declare support for swift federal action. Along with their counterparts in other states, they are pushing Congress for a September vote on immigration, and they want local legislators to pass a nonbinding resolution supporting President Barack Obama’s reform agenda.

    On the agenda is securing borders, creating a system to regulate the flow of workers, and allowing undocumented immigrants in good standing to pay a fine, learn English, and go to the back of the line to become citizens.

    The three groups come to reform with different perspectives. Employers want access to a reliable, legal work force. Union leaders want workers to have legal status, so that they don’t have to hide in the shadows and are not taken advantage of. And faith leaders want to show how the immigration system affects individuals and their families.

    Francisco Lopez, coordinator of the immigrant-rights group CAUSA, said the groups wanted a more “holisticâ€

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    The economy has also eclipsed the conversation. Though the crisis and the plight of unemployed Americans may slow reform, proponents agree, it won’t stop it. Because for the most part, Stone said, laid-off American workers don’t want the jobs that immigrants held.
    Yeah yeah, keep telling yourself that Stone. No one wants to work for $1 an hour. Illegals won't either, especially once the welfare dries up. Greedy employers need to be put out of business.
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    "The Coalition for a Working Oregon says employers can’t afford to lose the workers — there aren’t enough native Oregonians to do the jobs — and they need a better mechanism to get a legal work force. "

    Really? I guess the 10 percent unemployment rate simply hasn't made anyone desperate.
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    Despite of their differences, three groups have come together to discuss the situation - businesses, unions and faith leaders — are teaming up to lobby legislators, raise awareness and add economic arguments to an often emotional debate
    Funny...I didn't need to read another word after this paragraph to know which direction this article was headed! As soon as I heard faith leaders, unions and businesses, I knew this article was headed south...literally!
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