Immigration Reform march

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Mr. Obama addressed the crowd via a videotaped message:

“I have always pledged to be your partner as we work to fix our broken immigration system, and that’s a commitment that I reaffirm today,” Mr. Obama said.

He expressed his support for the outline of an immigration bill presented last week by Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, and Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York. While pledging to help build bipartisan support, Mr. Obama warned, “You know as well as I do that this won’t be easy, and it won’t happen overnight.”

Source-New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html
 

This is the next big thing for President Obama. Awamu hii lazima tupate
uraia tu.
 

Demonstrators shout as they hold up crosses with names of immigrants who died crossing the US-Mexico border during a rally for immigration reform on the National Mall in Washington, Sunday.
Jose Luis Magana/AP
 
Ab-Titchaz said:
This is the next big thing for President Obama. Awamu hii lazima tupate
uraia tu.
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The Chief is very instrumental Mkuu.

Wakati ule, mtu akijaza uraia-upgrade ya Green Card to Citizenship ilikuwa inachukua miaka miwili, sasa only Four Month!!

Ukifile kwa parents only Six Month. Kuna mabadiliko makuwa yanatokea kimya kimya.
 
Ab-Titchaz said:
This is the next big thing for President Obama. Awamu hii lazima tupate
uraia tu.
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Kama kweli na yeye mwenyewe anataka kuwa one term presidaa basi a go ahead na hii kitu. I am telling he will awaken the sleeping giant. Put a sticky to my comments so we can refer to them later.....I can't wait for him to push for this. I want him to go ahead and start right away...just go 'head mr president...go 'head....
 

He will do it. Siasa haina fomula kama hisabati au fizikia. Hilo ndilo kosa la wengi.

Unakumbuka wakati wa Reagan?

Ngoja niweke bookmark hapa.
 
MaxShimba said:
He will do it. Siasa haina fomula kama hisabati au fizikia. Hilo ndilo kosa la wengi.

Unakumbuka wakati wa Reagan?

Ngoja niweke bookmark hapa.
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Kwanza, Reagan hakuwa polarizing kama alivyo Obama. Reagan alishinda majimbo 46 mara kwanza na mara ya pili akashinda majimbo 49 kati ya 50. Obama hakushinda majimbo mengi hivyo na kila kunapokucha inazidi kudhihirika kuwa atakuwa one term president.

Na rationale ya wakati ule ilikuwa wakitoa amnesty basi itapunguza tatizo la wahamiaji haramu. Guess what...hiyo haikutokea na wamejifunza kutokana na kosa hilo.

Pili, Reagan alifanya hivyo kwenye muhula wake wa pili, mwaka 1986 baada ya kushinda kwa kishindo cha kihistoria kwa kushinda majimbo 49 kati ya hamsini. Na unemployment haikuwa asilimia 9 au 10 ilivyo sasa. Sasa naona washabiki wa Dems mmebweteka na kudhani mna mandate ya kufanya mtakalo. I say let him do...he should start tomorrow. Please let him do it....
 
Time when you need opinion from Ng'waninyami........! wit dem democrats having the healthcare bill in dey hands.......next is dis biggity GoP wit da immigration...........
 

NN,

Immigration reform sio eti ni blank cheque for illegal immigrants.
That is suicidal bearing in mind the polarity that engulfs this country
in that respect.Jamaa anataka ku-streamline process na ku-secure
borders so to speak.

Meanwhile the bill has been sponsored/crafted by both a
republican and a democrat na to a larger extent Obama anaipigia
debe tu.

The right way to mend immigration

By Charles E. Schumer and LindseyO.Graham
Friday, March 19, 2010

Our immigration system is badly broken.

Although our borders have become far more secure in recent years, too many people seeking illegal entry get through. We have no way to track whether the millions who enter the United States on valid visas each year leave when they are supposed to. And employers are burdened by a complicated system for verifying workers' immigration status.

Last week we met with President Obama to discuss our draft framework for action on immigration. We expressed our belief that America's security and economic well-being depend on enacting sensible immigration policies.

The answer is simple: Americans overwhelmingly oppose illegal immigration and support legal immigration. Throughout our history, immigrants have contributed to making this country more vibrant and economically dynamic. Once it is clear that in 20 years our nation will not again confront the specter of another 11 million people coming here illegally, Americans will embrace more welcoming immigration policies.

Our plan has four pillars: requiring biometric Social Security cards to ensure that illegal workers cannot get jobs; fulfilling and strengthening our commitments on border security and interior enforcement; creating a process for admitting temporary workers; and implementing a tough but fair path to legalization for those already here.

Besides border security, ending illegal immigration will also require an effective employment verification system that holds employers accountable for hiring illegal workers. A tamper-proof ID system would dramatically decrease illegal immigration, experts have said, and would reduce the government revenue lost when employers and workers here illegally fail to pay taxes.

We would require all U.S. citizens and legal immigrants who want jobs to obtain a high-tech, fraud-proof Social Security card. Each card's unique biometric identifier would be stored only on the card; no government database would house everyone's information. The cards would not contain any private information, medical information or tracking devices. The card would be a high-tech version of the Social Security card that citizens already have.

Prospective employers would be responsible for swiping the cards through a machine to confirm a person's identity and immigration status. Employers who refused to swipe the card or who otherwise knowingly hired unauthorized workers would face stiff fines and, for repeat offenses, prison sentences.

We propose a zero-tolerance policy for gang members, smugglers, terrorists and those who commit other felonies after coming here illegally. We would bolster recent efforts to secure our borders by increasing the Border Patrol's staffing and funding for infrastructure and technology. More personnel would be deployed to the border immediately to fill gaps in apprehension capabilities.

Other steps include expanding domestic enforcement to better apprehend and deport those who commit crimes and completing an entry-exit system that tracks people who enter the United States on legal visas and reports those who overstay their visas to law enforcement databases.

Ending illegal immigration, however, cannot be the sole objective of reform. Developing a rational legal immigration system is essential to ensuring America's future economic prosperity.

Ensuring economic prosperity requires attracting the world's best and brightest. Our legislation would award green cards to immigrants who receive a PhD or master's degree in science, technology, engineering or math from a U.S. university. It makes no sense to educate the world's future inventors and entrepreneurs and then force them to leave when they are able to contribute to our economy.

Our blueprint also creates a rational system for admitting lower-skilled workers. Our current system prohibits lower-skilled immigrants from coming here to earn money and then returning home. Our framework would facilitate this desired circular migration by allowing employers to hire immigrants if they can show they were unsuccessful in recruiting an American to fill an open position; allowing more lower-skilled immigrants to come here when our economy is creating jobs and fewer in a recession; and permitting workers who have succeeded in the workplace, and contributed to their communities over many years, the chance to earn a green card.

For the 11 million immigrants already in this country illegally, we would provide a tough but fair path forward. They would be required to admit they broke the law and to pay their debt to society by performing community service and paying fines and back taxes. These people would be required to pass background checks and be proficient in English before going to the back of the line of prospective immigrants to earn the opportunity to work toward lawful permanent residence.

The American people deserve more than empty rhetoric and impractical calls for mass deportation. We urge the public and our colleagues to join our bipartisan efforts in enacting these reforms.

Charles E. Schumer is a Democratic senator from New York. Lindsey O. Graham is a Republican senator from South Carolina.
 
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