US immigration reform will have to be re-devised to reflect unemployment
November 24 2009 by Liam Clifford
Reform legislation for US immigration will have to take unemployment into consideration.
The new immigration reform, that is currently being mooted by the Democrat party and the Obama administration, may have to undergo major changes to the 2007 US immigration legislation sponsored by Senators Edward Kennedy and John McCain.
Representative Luis Gutierrez had hoped to keep the basic framework of the legislation, however because of the unemployment level currently being experienced by the US, there may have to be considerable amendments to the proposal to reflect this.
The US immigration reform was first attempted in 2007, when unemployment rates were at 4.5%, now two years later the US is seeing the national rate at 10.2%.
It would be common sense that if the bill failed to be passed then, with the current level of unemployment, if the same proposal was put forward it would fail again. Also the US immigration reform legislation is likely to be met with substantial Republican opposition, exasperated by the unemployment rate, when it is addressed in the House and Senate.
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