Obama's CIR proposals

[QuintonBermuda]

Take a look and particularly pages 23 - 26...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/defa..._blueprint.pdf

[ak_2006]

Making reforms to the existing employment- and family-based immigration system, including exempting immediate relatives of U.S. citizens from annual caps placed on legal immigration, and changing the categories and per country caps put in place to ensure successful high-skilled immigrants are able to remain in the U.S. permanently and U.S. citizens

[pnara2]

Thanks for sharing the link but honestly there is nothing new in this one. Immigration reform is being talked about since bush era and so far nothing has happened! Do not be surprised if you see an other version of this document in 2020 too!

[QuintonBermuda]

Originally Posted by pnara2

Thanks for sharing the link but honestly there is nothing new in this one. Immigration reform is being talked about since bush era and so far nothing has happened! Do not be surprised if you see an other version of this document in 2020 too!

That may be the case, but maybe we should use this time to step up our efforts in our own states and cities. If you just say, "Oh this is all rhetoric, and nothing will happen" and sit on your couch, aren't you contributing to inaction??

I say we have mini advocacy days in our own states...and I would be willing to be involved!!

[go_guy123]

Originally Posted by pnara2

Thanks for sharing the link but honestly there is nothing new in this one. Immigration reform is being talked about since bush era and so far nothing has happened! Do not be surprised if you see an other version of this document in 2020 too!

This one for courting Latino votes for 2012. Even latino groups now openly say it is a joke and all talk. CIR aka mass amnesty is an impossible fantasy.

[gk_2000]

In the meantime, some of them dirty people can use this:

Barack Obama Toilet Paper Roll

[forever_waiting]

The most irritating part of all this is that now we have to keep an eye out for real,meaningful legislation that would help high-skilled immigration but also keep tab on these fake legislative attempts by the administration whose main idea is to attract hispanic votes in 2012. Hope people call this bluff soon so that we do not have to waste time following such attempts.

[PrinceVA]

Originally Posted by gk_2000

In the meantime, some of them dirty people can use this:

Barack Obama Toilet Paper Roll

lol. will order 1. will use it when ever new VB will come out and it will be as usual disappointing.

[Honda]

Originally Posted by QuintonBermuda

Take a look and particularly pages 23 - 26...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/defa..._blueprint.pdf

Dont expect too much. Nothing will happend.

[looivy]

Fool me once shame on you
Fool me twice shame on me

He will likely lose 2012 to Romney.

[h1_b_visa_holder]

But we have to acknowledge they’ve broken the rules. They’ve cut in front of the line. And what is also true is that the presence of so many illegal immigrants makes a mockery of all those who are trying to immigrate legally.

[h1_b_visa_holder]

And reform will also help to make America more competitive in the global economy. Today, we provide students from around the world with visas to get engineering and computer science degrees at our top universities. (Applause.)

But then our laws discourage them from using those skills to start a business or a new industry here in the United States. Instead of training entrepreneurs to stay here, we train them to create jobs for our competition. That makes no sense. In a global marketplace, we need all the talent we can attract, all the talent we can get to stay here to start businesses -- not just to benefit those individuals, but because their contribution will benefit all Americans.

Look at Intel, look at Google, look at Yahoo, look at eBay. All those great American companies, all the jobs they’ve created, everything that has helped us take leadership in the high-tech industry, every one of those was founded by, guess who, an immigrant. (Applause.)

So we don’t want the next Intel or the next Google to be created in China or India. We want those companies and jobs to take root here. (Applause.) Bill Gates gets this. He knows a little something about the high-tech industry. He said, “The United States will find it far more difficult to maintain its competitive edge if it excludes those who are able and willing to help us compete.”

[QuintonBermuda]

I would like to become a US citizen one day. The US was built on the backs of people that against all odds, fought to make this the country the way it is, using every opportunity that was given to them. For some of the repliers on this tread, you don't deserve to be a US citizen.

[hello]

Dream Act Reintroduced Today

[smuggymba]

Originally Posted by hello

Dream Act Reintroduced Today

wow..no news yet on CNN. Is IV aware of this? Is the text same as before?