The Immigration Mishmash
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 5th, 2009 4:37 am by HL
The Immigration Mishmash
SAN DIEGO — What a mishmash the Obama administration has made of its position on immigration reform. The president recently promised the Congressional Hispanic Caucus that he’d tackle immigration reform this year and argued that legalizing the undocumented improves the economic power of all workers. But more recently, Vice President Biden told a group of Central American leaders that the economic crisis makes this a bad time to push the subject. “It’s difficult to tell a constituency — while unemployment is rising, they’re losing their jobs and their homes — that what we should do is in fact legalize (illegal immigrants) and stop all deportation,” he said.
