Background post

Immigration reform has been a topic for many years, in a country made up of immigrants from every nations, this is no wonder. Elise Island was the hub for entering the country in the early 1900’s, now people can enter from every corner of the country and many come illegally. The illegal’s are causing the problem and also pushing for reform.  Where companies are all for immigration, the standard citizens struggle with it, we are a country in a recession and allowing reform brings in more immigrants to add to the unemployment lines, not to mention the wage cuts that immigrants will take because they are hungry for work and the wages in the United States are hugely better than that from which they came, or they wouldn’t have come. The land of opportunity is what it was called a hundred years ago, now it’s a land of unemployed. We are the richest but have more hunger and homeless than any other country but we still send more money overseas than we spend at home on these issues.

Many who oppose reform are unemployed and are leery of the broken promises that have already plagued our country.

President Obama made many promises to the Latino population while vying for votes in 2008, we have seen this happening all over again as he has been in Texas speaking this month.

According to one website the Spanish voters in America make up approximately 16%, this is a significant number for the upcoming 2012 elections, and President Obama is already retain and gain their votes.  

Unions have always pushed for reform in terms of organizing workers. Immigrants come to America to make a better life for themselves but cannot do that making minimum wage. With area standards in place and enforced then everyone lives better.

Some legislation that is still in process is the Dream Act; it was re-introduced on March 26, 2009 by Senator Richard Durbin and Representative Howard Berman. This Act is a bipartisan legislation that can possibly solve the injustice going on in our society today. Under the strong provisions of the Dream Act, qualifying undocumented youth would be eligible for a 6 year long conditional path to citizenship that requires completion of a college degree or two years of military service. There are approximately 65,000 youth illegal immigrants today that were born in the United States to illegal parents. Under this Act they would have the opportunity to become United States Citizens.

I’ve attached hyperlinks to many of the items I’ve talked about to give added information on immigration and immigration reform to anyone that is interested.