Following on the heels of my post about immigration a few weeks ago is actually a new development from Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. From the New York Times:
In her first major speech on the overhaul, Ms. Napolitano dispelled any suggestion that the administration — with health care, energy and other major issues crowding its agenda — would postpone the most contentious piece of immigration legislation until after midterm elections next November.
Laying out the administration’s bottom line, Ms. Napolitano said officials would argue for a “three-legged stool” that includes tougher enforcement laws against illegal immigrants and employers who hire them and a streamlined system for legal immigration, as well as a “tough and fair pathway to earned legal status.”
Seems to me to be more or less what George W. Bush proposed a few years back, which was quite possibly the only policy he proposed that I agreed with. So assuming health care ever gets taken care of maybe Congress might actually do something about this…
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