Pelosi Ready For Immigration Reform Debate
Thursday June 25, 2009
While President Obama and Congressional leaders come together today to talk about comprehensive immigration reform, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi discusses her commitment to bringing that debate to the floor.
From a transcript of Speaker Pelosi's weekly press conference held this morning:
Q: Madam Speaker, what do you think the chances are this year for comprehensive immigration reform? How do you see the road map from here?
Speaker Pelosi: Well, you know there is a meeting at the White House today on immigration, and I am very pleased that the White House is focusing on that. We had been ready for a long time, and we've had our principles established of securing our border, enforcing our laws, unifying families, and having a path to legalization for people who are in this country. The plan has always been for the Senate to go first, and Senator Reid has made positive statements about the prospect for that. So I am encouraged by that, but we are ready any time.
Q: Some, like Republican Lincoln Diaz Balart, said that he believes they can get a compromise in the House to get the votes into passage, but he says the issue is, will you commit on bringing the immigration reform to the floor for a debate, would you set a date?
Speaker Pelosi: Well, I said that the Senate will go first, and that's what we have done. We are ready to have this debate. We are interested in what will happen at the White House today. We think that this is important that the President has called this meeting. It is one in another series. He had the health summit, the economic summit, the auto summit, now we're having immigration. I don't know if we'll call this a summit, but a meeting at the White House. I don't know if he called all the others a summit either. But we are ready to go. I hope that Congressman Diaz Balart -- I don't know if you were talking about Lincoln or Mario?
Q: Lincoln.
Speaker Pelosi: Lincoln will encourage many Republicans to join him in his enthusiasm for immigration.
Q: How committed are you to allowing reform to be debated on the floor?
Speaker Pelosi: Oh, absolutely. This to me is who we are as a country. Immigration has been a constant reinvigoration of America. Every person who comes here with their aspirations for a better future for their family, that commitment of making the future better for the next generation is a very American idea. So all of them who come with their enthusiasm for the future make America more American. I'm very excited.
Source: PR Newswire
Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images
Not identifying E-Verify as the perfect tool to extract illegal immigrants from the workplace, doesn’t wash with the American worker anymore? The once great US Chamber of Commerce, compliant with the ACLU, and other anti-sovereignty factions, have pushed our soft politicians to null E-Verify. Sen. Harry Reid(D-NV), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) have lost a great deal of public loyalty, because between them, they manufactured excuses to undermine any new law that enforced our weak immigration laws? Chief of Homeland Security is Napolitano who joined the other pathetic Senators, to stealthily direct ICE not to implement large immigration raids anymore. This has also been noticed by the public audience in the months since inheriting the office from Chertoff. By no means are these the legislators who are stating they are supporting E-Verify, or any other immigration law, but in actual fact voting against it.
Their attitude shows up distinctly when they keep voting E-Verify being delayed for Federal contractors who of all people should be using it. It displays their complete apathetic when politicians allow 300.000 illegal workers, making use of Stimulus money in the construction industry. The 1986 Immigration Act has never been enforced, it has always been fully jeopardized and now the politicians want to replace it, by enacting another AMNESTY. Amendments to the 1986 Simpson/Mazzoli bill is all that’s required to add strength, to our border security and internal enforcement.
Even any new health care for the American people is compromised by the illegal alien pestilence, because a great portion of the uninsured in our nation are these people heading in large numbers to emergency hospitals. In the decades since Europe saw the ingress of illegal immigrants into their countries, they have seen medical care sink in the quality of service, including rationing. Here in America health care has also been disparaged by added forced mandated laws, that illegal people must be attended to, for even the common cold–which becomes yet another financial impediment to the legal population. It’s just sheer madness on the part of the open border globalists, to keep feeding the country with millions of cheap labor. The burden for these services has never been financially appropriated from the businesses that employ foreign labor, but–ALWAYS–from the US taxpayer.
We have been brain-washed by the media and government that there are only 11 million illegal people who have violated our laws, whoever this is far from the truth. We can not afford for another AMNESTY to succeed, and must fight back tooth and nail? It’s enactment would terrify the most conservative of financial analysts, of even larger obligation on every taxpayer. Of all the immigration tools at our disposal, we must not let our government exempt E-Verify from our ordinance. It should mandated in every human resources office that–ALL ERRORS– can be reconciled, after being hired at the Social Security agencies.
President Obama has adamantly promised illegal aliens who knew the consequences of violating our border, a path to citizenship. Sorry! But the costs of this travesty cannot be even imagined. This is absolutely “Taxation without Representation” for like many laws that quietly fall upon the American taxpayer it is ethically wrong. Just addressing the OVERPOPULATION concept should be enough for–THE PEOPLE–to bombard your Senators and Congressman. Facts, statistics at NUMBERSUSA.
Brittancus are you a native american???? only if you are you can said all the bulgar and words full of hate against inmigrants. USA is a nation of inmigrants and you are not the exception. As your great grandparents sacrifice themselves many years ago caming here to give you a better life the 12 millions illegal inmigrants are doing for their families what your great grant parents did for you. illegal alien pestilence is the phrase you use to descrived undocument people but you are so ingnorant that your predecesors were probably call the same thing many years ago, so you are olso part of the illegal alien pestilence and so are your great and grandparents for coming to this country illegaly.