Obama's Plan for Immigration

Regan Shea

February 7, 2013

Obama's Plan for Immigrants

Most American families were immigrants to the United States at one time and today's lawmakers are in the process of changing these laws that are in many ways the foundation of our country. Immigration is an important topic today because of the high unemployment; most Americans are concerned immigrants will take their jobs. However, without the millions of illegal immigrants in our country today, our economy would not exist. If the government made laws that kept immigrants out of the U.S. for good, the American citizens would have to step up and do many of the jobs immigrants are doing everyday. When you escape your country to have a better life, you value your work place more then if it is just handed to you. With this being said, Immigrants appreciate what they have more then the average working American. Illegal immigrants can harm our country; let's help these illegal immigrants become citizens. It is about time that this country has bipartisan support for resolving the concerns with immigrations laws because these people are important to the success of our country.

A speech was held in Las Vegas, Nevada to discuss the laws on immigration. Although Obama disagrees with the views of the senators on some issues, "such as whether to make citizenship for undocumented immigrants acceptable or to further tighten the nations boarders" (Landler) they came to a conclusion on Tuesday. The officials stated, "the president's goal would be less to underline differences with the bipartisan plan then to marshal public support behind immigration reform" (Landler). Since Obama failed to achieve this goal in his first term as president, he has made this a top priority in his second term. Immigration has always been a problem in the United States but never looked at into detail. Over the past few years immigration has become an important issue to Americans.

According to officials, senators are pushing to have this law passed by the summer of 2013; the White House has deferred plans to introduce their own immigration bill (Landler). The public is curious after two years of nearly constant dispute with Congress; Obama finds himself in a rare alignment with Democratic and Republican lawmakers. The bipartisan proposal has four pillars: Border security, employer enforcement, provisions for granting entry to farm workers, highly skilled engineers, and the pathway to citizenship. These pillars resemble Obama's blueprint, which was wrote in May 2012 (Landler). These pillars have been discussed but have not been changed.

Officials say Obama would push for a "clear path to citizenship from the outset for the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States" (Landler). Obama stated he would "reject any attempts to link that to improved border security" (Landler). The article stated that the president is satisfied with the current border security. If Obama is satisfied and claims the borders are improved, one would have to ask how these 11 million undocumented immigrants got across the borders?

The key is to first secure the borders to prevent more illegal immigrants from entering the country. A plan