In an interview with North Carolina’s Fayetteville Observer, Hillary Clinton pledged that her immigration plan would help legal immigrants and also local governments:
“Local officials here do not set immigration policy, but they sure pay for it,” she said. She said more federal money should be allocated to offset the cost of providing health care and education to immigrants…
She wants all immigrants to register with the federal government. Those who have committed a serious crime would be deported.
Law-abiding immigrants would have to pay a fine for coming to the United States illegally, pay back taxes and try to learn English.
Meanwhile, Barack Obama touched on the need for immigration reform during a speech to union activists:
"We know that enforcement is not enough, that we need to fix our immigration system," Obama said, and he called the existing policy "nothing but scattershot immigration raids at meatpacking plants around the country."
"This election is our chance to finally stop playing politics with an issue as important as immigration reform," he said.
A poll released today showed that both Obama and Clinton are in a statistical tie in Indiana. Also, one pollster said that Clinton’s primary victory in Pennsylvania on Tuesday did little to sway public opinion in her favor.
Sources- South Bend Tribune, Associated Press, Xinhua, Fayetteville Observer, MarketWatch
Something for Señor Bush, Pelosi, and all three top Presidential candidates to ponder over:
ReplyDeleteVETERANS LAUNCH NATIONAL EDUCATION EFFORT ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
INDIANAPOLIS (April 28, 2008) – Crime, terrorism and dependency on scarce government dollars are some of the major reasons why the nation’s largest veterans organization is concerned about illegal immigration. So concerned, in fact, that The American Legion today began a nationwide outreach to alert Americans to the dangers posed by illegal aliens and the government’s reluctance to seriously address the issue.
“American Legion members have served in the U.S. Armed Forces throughout the world so that Americans can feel safe at home,” said Marty Conatser, national commander. “We have seen Third World countries. We have seen poverty, political instability, disease and war. Today we see the threat that open borders present to our homeland.
“With more than 14,000 posts and 2.7 million members, I am asking Legionnaires everywhere to start the national dialogue that needs to happen now,” Conatser said. “As a nation at war with operatives sworn to kill Americans, our government must shut down our open borders and take decisive action to address a crippling national problem.”
Unlike the "A" in ACLU, the "A" in American Legion actually stands for American!
Read the full story:
http://www.legion.org/vision/currentevents/2008/04/veterans_launch_national_educa.html