Thursday, April 9, 2009

Obama to Push Immigration Bill as One Priority

by Julia Preston, New York Times
April 8, 2009


While acknowledging that the recession makes the political battle more difficult, President Obama plans to begin addressing the country’s immigration system this year, including looking for a path for illegal immigrants to become legal, a senior administration official said on Wednesday.

Mr. Obama will frame the new effort — likely to rouse passions on all sides of the highly divisive issue — as “policy reform that controls immigration and makes it an orderly system,” said the official, Cecilia Muñoz, deputy assistant to the president and director of intergovernmental affairs in the White House. [...]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/us/politics/09immig.html?_r=1

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