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Subscribe to RSSImmigration tops the list of issues in Washington as a group of bipartisan senators lay out their plan for comprehensive immigration reform ahead of President Obama's trip to Las Vegas this week. NBC's Mark Murray reports.
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It's been proven that nothing is doable in the DO NOTHING CONGRESS!
I think Congress may actually do something on this issue. There are those within the GOP who now see the pandering to white/male voter strategy as a losing one.
Congress doesn't seem to understand that we send them to Washington to get the job done----work out those devilish details in a bi-partisan manner that is fair to all.
What is this, the 2nd or 3rd time this issue has been brought up for discussion today? Can't you guys think of anything else to talk about?
I responded to the previous postings and this is all I'll say in this one.
It really appears that the left wing news media and the liberal Democrats are using immigration and gun control to deflect from their failure to address the issues that Americans are most concerned about, which is the economy, jobs and reducing the deficits. These 3 issues were the top concern of those polled in the latest Pew Poll. Illegal immigration and gun control were low on the list.
We crazy liberal Democrats feel the same way when the Republican House is voting for the up-teen time to de-fund planned parenthood, repeal Obama Care, and impose their social ideas on the American People.
sfcret - The economy is still gaining, GDP is positive, unemployment is down and more people are being hired month by month. Your point is taken on the deficit. As seen on Jan 1st when the Bush tax cuts were voted on for posterity no one, repeat no one cares about the deficit. If they care enough about the deficit they should allow the sequester to take place. How many not only liberal democrats, but conservative republican and fringe radical Tea Partiers will look to implement the sequester in totality? All of them will lobby for "their" sacred cow funding based on party affiliation and doctrine. On jobs, let's see what the job's report says come 1st week of Feb.
As I suspect Obama will say in his State of the Union - The State of our Union is strong.
I for one am glad that there is movement on immigration and gun control. The US and its elected officials can and should do more than one thing at a time. With the renewed debt ceiling manufactured crisis, I am just glad they are doing something. Worst case would have been them sitting around till end of March doing nothing but wringing their hands and resting their bottoms.
sfret: It's called multi-tasking. I am confident that while the top two issues that are gun safety and immigration reform are hogging the spotlight, there are plenty in the background who continue to work on the economy, jobs, health care, education. I would think it crazy to have elected officials who are only able to work on one thing at a time.
Steeler Fan, I just watched the bi-partisan Press conference and it's seems like some people are actually working on those details.
If we can manage to get people working again, the deficit will take care of itself. More revenue will come in as more people pay taxes. Less revenue will go out as fewer people need social services. People will spend money in the economy as they have wages to spend. If we then just eliminate a few instances of corporate welfare, and spending on weapons and military hardware we don't need, things should start to turn around.
The stuff you complain most about is the stuff that has been worked on. It is time to stop/slowdown the mass shootings, the deficit will take care of itself. The sequester is in place and that is going to cut the monkey off the bars. Maybe its time for republicans to get behind this president and get these other things done instead of obstructing as they have with the things you care about most.
Good comment job 1, probably too complicated for a republican, but a cave man would understand it.
Nice try from all the left wing nuts. Nothing of substance from the cool-aid drinkers. Deflection from the slowest recovery in American history. The tax and spend liberals at work.
SFcret. listen Rush it was also the worst recession since the great recession and your deflection about how slow we recover does nothing to aid your republican tea bags in congress did nothing to help and everything to obstruct. The borrow and spend republicans at work. Never, never pay your bills. Just run them up right, right wing wack job?
Johntho - Typical left wing response. Play the blame game. Poor Johntho another big tax and spend liberal with his head in the sand. Defending the most divisive President in history. Where is Obama's leadership, Oh, yea he doesn't have any idea of what leadership is. BTW Johntho you should be thanking the Republicans in Congress for putting a damper on Obama's spending spree. Think of how much deeper in debt we would be if Obama had gotten everything he and you liberals wanted.
Details are important! There was nothing wrong with the original Dream Act. Both parties had gotten their way in it. Now we have this group of eight re-writing it again. Democrats Charles Schumer, Dick Durbin, Robert Menendez and Michael Bennet have made agreements with John McCain and Jeff Flake of Arizona, Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio on yet another version of the Dream Act. Robert Menendez and Marco Rubio of Cuban immigrants and John McCain and Jeff Flake of Arizona, have no real world experience of the true Hispanic/Latino world of Mexican undocumented in America. Different news outlets along with the FOX-hole and talk shows on the radio say the preliminary writings are not complete. Why was there not an Antonio Villaraigosa or Julian Castro in these discussions to impart their input on this yet newer version? Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are poor examples of people who know the real dilemma and pains the Hispanic population go through in Western states. Michael Bennet of Colorado is the only one with western state experience and the rest are from eastern seaboard states. John McCain, Jeff Flake, Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio are all sworn TEA-types who have a history of bigotry and prejudice against people of color, any color except white. The TEA-Republican side of the equation are still too closely associated with the likes of every candidate in the TEA-Republican primary and would create enough resistance for immigrants to "Self-deport."
Rudy - I watched the news conference. This will be much more than the Dream act, it is an attempt to comprehensively address all the major issues of immigration reform. I understand your suspicion on the GOP on this, but I believe enough of them will come aboard.
Listened to Rubio and Menendez speaking in both English and Spanish. Despite my differences in much of Rubio's other positions, I think he is for this. He and McCain and the other Repubs should be credited with helping because they will be needed. During Bush's term, McCain and Graham and a few others joined dozens of Dems to support immigration reform before it ultimately failed.
Agree with you about Cruz, he is a total ________. You can fill in the blank. We will need J. Castro and others like him to garner support in the House. At this time the principles actually seem pretty fair and balanced. I hope they can stay that way in lieu of it morphing to a "just build a higher wall" bill.