I just saw this and am very happy to hear that the dems are getting their heads in the game.
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The Dems are finally getting it together to move or Immigration Reform without the loser repubs.
Please see article and link below. If this was posted before I will delete do not have time to check rushing to write this from work.
Alternate Plan Devised for Immigration
April 29, 2010
By John Stanton and Kathleen Hunter
Roll Call Staff
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Senate Democrats appear dead set on moving comprehensive immigration reform this year even if it comes without GOP support, and they began laying the groundwork Wednesday for a Democrats-only alternative to a bipartisan deal.
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Conference Vice Chairman Charles Schumer (N.Y.) and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (N.J.) released a detailed summary of a comprehensive immigration reform bill. The outline — which is based on negotiations between Schumer and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) that collapsed earlier this month — would require a series of border security benchmarks to be met before broader reforms could be implemented.
The legislation includes tougher controls on the hiring of illegal immigrants, new work visa provisions and a pathway for citizenship.
Publicly, Democrats insisted Reid, Schumer and Menendez still are hoping to bring Republicans to the negotiating table this summer.
"This is a draft that reflects months of bipartisan work — it is not a Democrat-only bill but is intended to serve as an invitation to Republicans to look at it and sit down to solve problems with us," Reid spokesman Jim Manley said.
Indeed, the trio of Democratic leaders — along with Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) — met with the leaders of the nation’s largest Latino community groups and immigration reform organizations to discuss the plan. According to a leadership aide, during the meeting Reid and other leaders were expected to ask activists to take the summary to meetings with Republicans in hopes of coaxing them into backing the bill...
http://www.rollcall.com/...
This is the best thing to do for Dems.
It will be hard but it needs to be done right now.
If anybody can do this it is Obama. He needs to give a speech about immigration Reform and why it is necessary and the move on it.
Sorry guys but got to run now but will check back to delete if already posted.