President to meet with key senators on immigration

[rs232c]

President to meet with key senators on immigration

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama plans to focus attention on immigration next week by meeting at the White House with two senators crafting a bill on the issue.

White House spokesman Nicholas Shapiro said Obama will meet with Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina on Monday.

The president is "looking forward to hearing more about their efforts toward producing a bipartisan bill," Shapiro said Friday.

The meeting will be the first Obama has had with Schumer and Graham on the proposal they are developing since they began focusing on it last year.

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[ilbegone]

A partial quote out of today's LA Times - same old tripe:

According to a person familiar with the meeting, the White House may ask Schumer and Graham to at least produce a blueprint that could be turned into legislative language.

The basis of a bill would include a path toward citizenship for the 10.8 million people living in the U.S. illegally. Citizenship would not be granted lightly [hah!], the White House said. Undocumented workers would need to register, pay taxes and pay a penalty for violating the law. Failure to comply might result in deportation.

[Mikell]

Keep it up Senators. It will be political suicide in a depression with 10% unemployment nation wide. Obama will be a one term President.
Everyone knows there will be no enforcement. Nothing has changed.

[Commander Bunny]

10.8 million...last week it was 12 million, and 5 years ago it was 37+ million....where'd They all run-off to?

[Rim05]

....where'd They all run-off to?


Someone will tell you they have all been deported. :rolleyes: