President Obama delivered his debut contention Tuesday in the cogitation over immigration reform, a altercation he opened by bringing it up. The public drift he made, before a chummy swarm in El Paso, Texas, was this: Border-security isn't such a big problem. "We've answered those concerns," Obama said, pointing out that barbarous lawlessness in touch towns has "dropped by a third." "We now have more boots on the prepare on the Southwest frontier than at any issue in our history," Obama said.
"Border watch over has 20,000 agents, more than twice as many as there were in 2004." Obama posed this as a effect to Republicans who have said that adjoin collateral should be the before and foremost priority of immigration policy. Just newest week, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner that chin-wag of wide improve can't begin until the border is made more secure.
It's a best-seller approach, politically. In new attempts at reform, added border-security measures have been offered in disagreement for a deal on citizenship. In 2007, before the matrix big immigration-reform foray knock apart, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) tried to appease skeptics of the bill, proposed by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and ancient senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), by throwing in an adding $4.4 billion for border-security funding.
Among hardliners and many Republicans, it seems there is nada move in full amelioration involving a pathway to citizenship for unauthorized aliens -- which is the cornerstone of what Democrats have sought. To many conservatives, immigration method only means securing the U.S.-Mexico border.
This time, Obama is saying border-security hawks have already gotten what they've great demanded. The president's up to date immigration prompt is curious, since inclusive immigration fix has been seen as a non-starter since the bankruptcy of the McCain-Kennedy bill. In 2008, President Obama pledged to decree immigration go straight during his triumph designate in the White House, but he lacks the votes in Congress to hand-off it.
He's said it himself: "I don't have 60 votes in the Senate. I've got to have some stomach from Republicans," Obama said in May 2010, during a common force colloquy at the White House with Mexican President Felipe Calderon. The White House released a Tuesday, and, while it offers some guidelines for stirring into view with dado security, the chronicle stresses the resources that are already in place. We can perhaps look forward to get wind of more statistics from Democrats on Department of Homeland Security manpower and falling violation rates along the Southwest border.
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