Immigration System is Broken and Needs Fixing: Obama
June 29, 2009 – 11:43 am
After concluding the discussion with members of Congress on immigration reforms, President Obama considered it to be a very productive meeting on one of the most critical issues that he think this nation faces, and that is an immigration system that is broken and needs fixing. Obama heard members of Congress from both chambers, parties, who have participated in the meeting and shared a range of ideas. After hearing them, Obama thinks the consensus is that despite our inability to get this passed over the last several years, the American people still want to see a solution in which we are tightening up our borders, or cracking down on employers who are using illegal workers in order to drive down wages – and oftentimes mistreat those workers. He stressed the need for an effective way to recognize and legalize the status of undocumented workers who are in U.S.
Obama asserted that his administration is fully behind an effort to achieve comprehensive immigration reform. He commended the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for making good progress in speeding up the processing of citizenship petitions, which has been far too slow for far too long. He also announced that in the next 90 days, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will launch a vastly improved Web site that will for the first time ever allow applicants to get updates on their status of their applications via e-mail and text message and online. He talked about the introduction of cutting-edge technology in immigration process, comprehensive immigration reforms, and the problem of 12 million undocumented workers. Finally, he ended his address with these remarks, “I am confident that if we enter into this with the notion that this is a nation of laws that have to be observed and this is a nation of immigrants, then we’re going to create a stronger nation for our children and our grandchildren.”
For complete Obama’s address, please click: President Obama’s Remarks Following June 25 Meeting on Immigration Reform with Congressional Leaders
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