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Lawmakers Headed to White House to Talk Immigration

By Jennifer Bendery
Roll Call Staff
June 25, 2010, 2:38 p.m.
President Barack Obama will sit down with lawmakers Tuesday to discuss immigration reform, a Hill source confirmed.

http://www.rollcall.com/news/47740-1.html?mostread=1

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Huff Po has a brief mention of this article too:

Obama will also huddle with congressional leadership on immigration. Roll Call: "President Barack Obama will sit down with lawmakers Tuesday to discuss immigration reform, a Hill source confirmed. The White House Office of Legislative Affairs on Friday e-mailed select lawmakers to invite them to attend the hourlong meeting at the White House, set to begin at 3:40 p.m." http://bit.ly/9wAJn6

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/2 ... 26286.html

Here's from Americas Voice:

Two Steps Forward for Immigration Reform

Cross-Posted from Standing FIRM:

Today, immigration reform saw a welcome two steps forward.

First, a press conference today marked over 100 co-sponsors for the CIR ASAP bill, introduced last fall by Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL).

At the press conference, members of Congress reaffirmed and intensified their commitment to passing immigration reform.

Much of the message was framed around the passage of SB 1070 in Arizona and the copycat laws that are springing up around the country.

Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Representative Barbara Lee spoke out against the racial profiling law:

We must act now. We cant afford to wait any longer. Arizona reminds us of that. We won’t let people divide us anymore. (via ClinicLegal)

Representative Luis Gutierrez, who introduced the legislation, drove home the urgency of the moment:

“The legislative clock is ticking,â€

Originally Posted by American-ized

Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL).

Representative Barbara Lee

CEO’s of major corporations:
Hewlett Packard
News Corp
Disney

York City mayor Michael Bloomberg

Walt Disney Co. Chairman and CEO Robert Iger

Now we know part of the big money people who have been fighting us, huh?

Others will expose themselves as time goes by, but for now we know at least one company not to buy movies and toys from.

I have enough PRO-AMERICAN memories to fill many lifetimes in Disneyland, so I can do without their chanting "it's a small world afterall" over and over.

These two are not a huge surprise - Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) and Representative Barbara Lee

Where's Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton (both so called reverends who show no reverence towards anyone, as they alienate a LARGE SEGMENT of God's children (whitie) with their racist lifestyles - two embarrassments to Martin Luther King's dreams?

Originally Posted by American-ized

Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Representative Barbara Lee spoke out against the racial profiling law:

We must act now. We cant afford to wait any longer. Arizona reminds us of that. We won’t let people divide us anymore.

In December, 2009, the Congressional Black Caucus sent a letter to Obama re diverting unused T.A.R.P. funds to job training, job creation, and new business formation. The first paragraph of that letter specifically calls for funds to go to American citizens.!

We won't let them divide us... Well, browns get jobs, blacks go to jail. What has happened to this woman? She knew that in Dec., 2009. Someone must have put spiked her tea.