Obama will push US immigration reform bill
April 09 2009 by Liam Clifford
After months of speculation, the White House has officially stated that Obama is looking at the matter of US immigration policy reform.
On Wednesday 8 April, Cecilia Munoz, deputy assistant to the president
and director of intergovernmental affairs, stated that President Obama
hopes to introduce a “policy reform that controls immigration and makes
it an orderly system.” The reform is also likely to involve measures to
allow some illegal immigrants to continue to live in the US legally.
President Obama is due to speak publically on the subject in May and
will hope to bring in new legislation as early as the Autumn, after
consulting with lawmakers and US immigration groups throughout the summer
months.
Although the plan is not going to take priority over energy and
healthcare issues that are at the forefront of his immediate plans, the
issue will be a priority during his first term in office, as promised
to the Hispanic community in his election manifesto.
Obama has stated that although the issue is an extremely contentious
one, he says that unregistered migrants who have been living and
working in the US for a long time “have to have some mechanism over
time to get out of the shadows.”
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