The immigration marches and
vigils that took place across the country on Saturday, uniting tens of
thousands of people in more than 40 states, were a plaintive reminder that
immigration reform — remember immigration reform? — is among the many pieces of
business that remain unfinished while Congress is in lockdown.
Even though
the bill passed the Senate, 68 to 32, in June, then entered the abyss of the
Republican-controlled House. Last week, House Democrats offered their version
of the Senate bill, but House leadership refusals to allow a vote on any
measure that includes possible citizenship for 11 million undocumented
immigrants and their preference for piecemeal measures, dealing largely with
enforcement.
As this standoff continues, A Democratic governor in California,
Jerry Brown,
Signed the Trust Act, a law that will make it
harder for federal agents to detain and deport unauthorized Californians who
are non-criminals or minor offenders and pose no threat. “We’re not using our
jails as a holding vat for the immigration
service,” Mr. Brown said. That same day he signed a bill to allow
qualified undocumented immigrants to become licensed as lawyers.
On Thursday, he signed a bill to allow driver’s licenses for
undocumented immigrants, which advocates welcomed as a means to safer roads and
greater economic opportunity. This followed earlier bills allowing legal permanent
residents to work in
polling places for elections and granting new labor rights to domestic workers,
a largely immigrant work force whose members are often exploited and abused. A
measure that awaits his signature would allow legal permanent residents to
serve on juries. Together the bills put California far on the leading edge of
expanding immigrant rights while finding humane, sensible solutions to a problem
Washington refuses to solve.
This author was claiming that people in office have forgotten about
Immigration reform, except one person (democratic governor in
California, Jerry Brown). The governor have taken steps to insure the security
of the Californian residents and those steps have gotten the illegal immigrants
close to citizenship. The author has made it very clear that the House
leadership does not want to take a chance of giving citizenship to 11 million
undocumented immigrants. The conclusion
is valid. “President Obama is on the brink of setting an
ugly record — the deportation during his time in office of two million people,
of whom only a fraction are dangerous criminals. More than 100,000 people have
been deported since the Senate passed its bill in June.” The Obama
administration was supposed to deport less people.
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