Thread: Richardson on immigration bill: too tough on families

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Richardson says the immigration plan favored by President Bush and many Senate Democrats is not amnesty.

The New Mexico governor says the plan will allow illegal immigrants to come "out of the shadows" and work and pay their way to citizenship.

In an interview with The Associated Press in Sacramento, California, Richardson says it's not amnesty when the bill requires thousands of dollars in fines, nine years to get a green card and 13 years to become a citizen.

But like some others in his party, Richardson says the bill is too tough on families. It would limit preferential visas for families of immigrants already in the US. Richardson says considering job skills over family reunification would go against past immigration measures.

He also says the federal government should help states cover health care and incarceration costs for immigrants who enter the country illegally.

The New Mexico governor says the plan will allow illegal immigrants to come "out of the shadows" and work and pay their way to citizenship.

Out of the shadows?? I am sick and tired of hearing this crap. They are way out of the shadows. They get bank account and credit cards, they are driving illegaly on the streets, gang illegals kill innocent americans everyday across the country, they send their children to schools and they are causing a big burden in the hospitals... Out of the shadows?? Get real..maybe you want to play fool here.. We are not stupid..[/b]

I am so tired of hearing about the families being separated. THEY CHOOSE to leave family behind to come here and now that they miss them WE should pay for their reunification!
For people who just " stay in the shadows" and "just good hard working folks" they seem to always be able to find their way to public assistance offices.