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Subscribe to RSSRepublican Senator Marco Rubio and others in the GOP criticizing the president for crafting immigration plan with no bipartisan input, NBC's Kristen Welker reports.
The White House is not directly commenting on a newspaper report that the administration is considering a path for illegal immigrants to become legal permanent U.S. residents within eight years.
USA Today said it obtained a draft of a White House immigration plan that contained the proposal.
The White House wouldn’t comment Saturday night directly on the USA Today report but released this statement:
“The President has made clear the principles upon which he believes any commonsense immigration reform effort should be based. We continue to work in support of a bipartisan effort, and while the President has made clear he will move forward if Congress fails to act, progress continues to be made and the administration has not prepared a final bill to submit.”
Since his re-election – which got a boost from Hispanic voters -- President Barack Obama has renewed his push for an overhaul of the nation’s immigration policy, including the topic in his inaugural address and State of the Union speech and making a trip to Nevada last month to highlight the issue.
And there’s been some progress in the Senate: A bipartisan group of senators announced in late January that they had agreed on goals for a major rewrite of immigration laws. Those include creating a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who are here already and creating a system to ensure that employers don’t hire illegal immigrants.
But reaction to the USA Today report by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., points to the difficulty in passing any package. Rubio issued a statement Saturday saying that if the president's eventual proposal follows the draft described by USA Today, it "would be dead on arrival in Congress."
NBC News' Ali Weinberg contributed to this report.
Hidden cameras reveal Mexican drug and immigrant smugglers crossing the U.S. border and traveling miles north into the country, NBC's Mark Potter reports.
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Come on-The White House is full of DICK HEAD STUPID People. This includes the Clown Obama. Folks, with the help of congress, these idiots are going to make this a dictatorship goverment. I would like to set down face to face with OBAMA and tell him just how stupid I think he is. We need to ride him out of this country on a rail like the old days. O'yea a little tar and feathers would help. We have the most corrupt goverment that I've seen in a long time. I thought Jimmy Carter was bad, But this YO YO has got him beat. A lot of us need to go into politics and draw some of that easy money for 4 years and set back on our rear ends and watch the world go by. To be qualified, all you have to do is act like a dumb ass, look like a dumb ass and don't pay your income taxes. We would probally stand a good chance of winning.
nixon and reagan were both more corrupt than carter, despite carter's incompetence. And even then the McCarthy era was probably the most dictatorial and corrupt government EVER in the U.S.. Insider trading has always been there and the parties have been in bed with each other since the 30s. It hasn't gotten worse, you're just NOW starting to see the symptoms.
left, do you not remember the japanese internment and the complete subjugation of the media and hollywood by mcCarthy? Most corrupt, overreaching government EVER in U.S. history.
We need immigrants with skillsets that are in demand. If you don't have them, don't come. We already have a sub-culture of multi-generation welfare recipients and don't need any more. We cannot afford to feed, clothe, house, educate, medicate and provide for the general wefare of the world.
Then by the same token we do not have the funds to go around militantly policing the world. Regardless of which party has the honor of the next CiC, the troops come home, and we do not go to war unless an attack comes. DOD budget sliced in half (you can do this easily by reducing our nuclear arsenal to being capable of wiping out china and russia once each, instead of the 5 times-worth we have now).
no, but I'm saying you can't call for responsibility in one area of government and then not call for it across the board. That's hypocrisy and incompetence, as well as simple laziness.
@jz you do know that only legal residents and US citizens are elegible to get welfare right?
so what are you talking about? and do you truly believe you feed and clothe those people?
PLEASE...
Here, american citizen relatives of illegals can get it and give it by proxy, but even this number is near 1-2%.
that was F'n tremendous
well done
the GOV is not going to fix this. TOO MUCH MONEY ON THE TABLE. an illegel comes in for a job. He presents his bought SS#. Employer calls in to check number, but can't say the name on the card. GOV just says yes or no for hiring. GOV dosen't want to tell employer that Hose Cuervo's number is really Billy Bob Brown(whose been dead 15 yrs) . Illegal comes to work. Employer takes all the same taxes and sends to GOV. GOV gladly accepts them because no one will ever file a tax return claim on that number. FREE MONEY FOR THE GOV.
A lot of so-called statistics are being thrown around here, but I don't see one reference as to where these numbers are coming from. I wonder if these numbers are Hannity's, or Beck's, or are they government numbers? From my experience, I don't see a lot of "illegals" on welfare simply because you have to show some kind of identification to get it. I do see a lot of them standing on the street corner looking for work, labor intensive work, that most of you wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole. Try working out in the Arizona sun in the middle of summer and then come tell me how these people are sucking off the public dole. If you really want to get rid of the immigrant problem, punish the people who hire/exploit these people at near-slave wages.
left, care to prove that with a referencial source? According to the IRS it's less than 1% of illegals.
Left, Duke is not an idiot. If you forced out all illegals your food price would more than double due to minimum wage costs, or the government would have to more than double farm subsidies, something you're not in favor of. Pick your poison and live with it you ignorant clod.
looking for an answer and what i get another load of back ass bull@!$%# out of the white house
WTF!....the skunk thinks giving a bunch of illegals citizenship will improve america....get real...make em go through same sh_t as my grandparents did...if they can't learn to speak english send their a$$es back to wherever they came from....fricken illegals!..Just more drain on the people that work to pay for these lazy bast_rds...
Again the only reform I want to see is to have all the illegals "re-formed" back across the boarder where they belong. Then let them apply for citizenship. We are being invaded and our idiot president is giving them a hand.
that would cost the country another trillion AND force it into police-state status. Unless you're socially moderate and fiscally conservative, you're a political hack.
Lessthan99%,
Very informative and lengthy appeal. But you forgot or don’t know many facts of immigrant IT worker’s life. First of all there are only 65000-80000 H1bs and some 30K-50K L1 visas only allowed per year.
Do you know what are the requirements for these H1b or L1 visas?.. They are very stringent and many people who dream of getting a job in USA are not qualified. Whoever lucky enough to get a visa, they come here by leaving their families and relative in their homeland in search of better life.
Do you know once they come here…
1. They get lowest wage defined in labor condition approval.
2. They have to pay federal, state and local taxes.
3. They have to pay social security and medicare taxes.
4. They have to pay unemployment insurance.
Do you even know that these social security and medicare taxes are levied on all people working in H1B and L1b even though they don’t receive any medicare or social security benefits unless they are fortunate enough to get a green card and lives in US till their natural life.
If they are unfortunate and their project is over, they have to go back to their home country as they are not allowed any unemployment or other benefits.
Do you know the waiting time for greencard?..There is a per country limit and an immigrant worker has to wait for 8-10 years to get greencard. Then after that a citizenship wait time is for another 5 years.
Most of the H1bs and L1 workers are leaving country after their completion of Visa limit as they don’t get GC. They paid social security and medicare taxes their entire work life in USA and that 30% plus wages they receive are contribution to USA economy and welfare.
These so called immigrant workers are paying for your/our senior health care and social security without any benefits for them.
All of these so called immigrant legal workers are supporting USA economy by spending most of their earned money here. Whatever left after austerity measures, they get to send some money to their families left behind.
You are talking about low wages in USA. Who is to blame here?.. A typical American holds most of their 401K savings in the form of stocks.. YOU want your 401k to increase so that you can have a better retirement. How is that possible? Only if companies show profits every quarter then share price will increase and your 401K increase. How can companies increase their profits?. By lowering the cost either by cutting wages in USA or ship jobs to other low wage countries.
If you don’t want your salaries to be cut or jobs shipped to other countries, don’t expect your 401K increase exponentially.
There is more to this.. But I am getting sleep…
I completely agree with you in terms of illegal immigrants.
Legalized wetbacks means Democratic votes. What else would you expect from our jungle bunny President?
Ha ha you kkk kook you lost and will continue to lose.
I wonder why are the republicans are fighting for the same votes?
It's still about the economy and good jobs Congress. Americans for Americans. How many illegal immigrants are job creators? The Government will always have the support of "Paul".
Obama you are one stupid S.O.B. millions of AMERICANS out of work and you want to bring in more illeagles but then when you stop to think about all the stupid people who wanted you back for four more years of destroying our country you are on the right track
Obama for pope
I have good news and bad news for you burgereater, the good news is... the unemployed are unemployed because they DO NOT like being underemployed, the bad news are...some people are so stupid that they fail to see this, and they find it easier to blame the immigrants.
theQ5454,
You abandoned civilized discussion when you said and I quote "One thing butthead."
If any one of us citizens crossed national borders illegally, we'd be prosecuted. If any of us had fraudulant I.D.s, using someone else's SS number or defrauded the government of benefits, we'd be in jail. Why is it the illegals can commit crime after crime and be considered honorable immigrants? For all you liberal who want them here, why don't you take them into your house and let them live off of you? Why don't you pay their way? Every immigrant without properly going through the process of coming into this country the way they are suppose (following the laws), is a criminal. Their first act coming across the borders is a crime...let's call it what it is...they are criminals. Deport them and let the other governments pay for all their privileges and benefits.
Wars are not of God,that's why God will Rapture out/protect those he
loves,and those who love and obey Him (if you love me you'll obey me Jesus
said) during the coming Tribulation.And so laying down your life in wars while
killing people in wars is not of God,as wars also kill Christians.God ends all
wars says Isaiah 2:4,and God doesn't end what is Holy,so all wars are not
Holy,and so not of a Holy God,and so not of the Holy Bible,as God's word is
forever.Wars are of man's sinful nature,his flesh,ever since man sinned the sin
of pride at Eden and ate the Forbidden Fruit that looked and tasted good to his
flesh.Man must turn the will of his flesh,his sinful nature over to the will of
God,and repent of all his sins,even of wars,and be Born Again of Spirit,of God's
Holy Spirit.For as Jesus said,God is a Spirit,and must be worshiped in spirit
and truth,not in wars of the flesh man's sinful nature,of guns and bombs,even of
Nuclear Bombs.
burgereater2178640,
You abandoned civilized discussion when you said and I quote, "Obama you are one stupid S.O.B....."
masterq, how could he have abandoned civilized discussion by stating a fact? barack hussein is a stupid sob and a lying pos.
The US will be sent to the ash heap of history by legal and illegal immigration in the same way other empires that came before it died.
Do like the doormat says.....
GET LOST!
and take your spawn with you!
Johnsense,
I doubt whether your ancestors asked the American Indians for permission to live here.
Dev79,
History is not your strong suit.
Great post there chap, superlative, concise and of course the only way that this reality will play out.
The last amnesty produced a miserly 40 percent citizenship participation by the wiley interlopers.
I have no sympathy for the bastards, think they should be rounded up and made to drink from a lead cup
I totally disagree with this. What message does this send: BREAK THE LAW getting and be welcome with open arms. Reagrdless of the fact that they may bring business here, let those bring business here that enter LEGALLY. I have no faith in the so called leaders {Congress and Senate } what so ever, they are taking the easy way out, I suppose after letting these illegal immigrants in they will vote themselves another pay raise.
How about all the illegals having to speak/write English? There are some many job positions in my state that give preference to persons who speak/write Spanish. I'm tired of having to press 1 so I can hear a message in English. Why should we cater to people who don't speak our language?
Que?
That must be exHAUSting, pressing one.
The immigrants that voted for Obama are not illegal, they are citizens by choice. As someone that came to this country legally and became a citizen by choice I have to say that I don't like the idea of forgiving and forgetting so easily. I have a brother and sister in law that would like to come here and open a small business here, well it would take 10 years if they want me to sponsor them and a good lawyer to come here legally. They are both professionals and would bring money here to invest in a small scale, the only option they have now if they don't want to wait that long, they need 1 to 3 million dollars to invest. That is the irony of this whole system. Back one I came to this country over 40 years ago, you not only need it a sponsor but you also had to pay $2500, that was a lot of money back then.