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Wilcox sees new push for immigration reform

by Colton Shone/KTAR (November 19th, 2009 @ 5:40am)

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Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox expects immigration reform to return to the forefront in the coming months.

Wilcox said Wednesday that the recession and health care reform have put immigration on the back burner recently, but that supporters of reform are returning to the cause.

"What we're doing is strategizing how we move immigration reform forward," she said. "We know the system's broken."

Wilcox added, "We need to have programs where, if there's a shortage of labor, we have visas. But, you also have to fix the lives of 12-million people who are here, and many, many of them contributing to American society already."

She said leaders of the reform movement "would like to see a bill introduced in January and pushed to a vote by early spring."

Wilcox said a new national effort will be spearheaded by many political figures, including the former Arizona governor who is now the Department of Homeland Security director.

"Janet Napolitano has said this is a front-line issue, and she will be leading an effort by the president to make it front and center," said Wilcox.


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    Fair
    Jim Sanson
    It is fair, so just follow the lands of the law. Yes, the fair ones. The State of Arizona does not want Illegals. Then Illegals move to another State.
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    What Americans say they want:
    abogada987
    Americans Want To See The Number Of Illegal Immigrants Decrease, But Not Through Mass Deportation. A CNN poll found that 73% of Americans want illegal immigration reduced, while 3% want it increased and 22% want it to stay the same. But only half of those who want it reduced—37% of the entire sample—said mass deportation was the way to accomplish the goal.
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    Reform???
    Patrick H
    What they really want is non enforcement of the immigration laws so they will be able to overthrow this country!!! Wake Up!!! Drug Cartels RUN Mexico!!! They but politicians like we buy gas!!! Nobody has ANY Courage or Integrity!!! And it WILL destroy this country if we allow it!!! Now is the time to fight for OUR rights to Govern Ourselves!!! Our elected officials only care about themselves and will sacrifice EVERYTHING that our forefathers sacrificed for what we now have!!!
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    Wilcox is so Funny
    D M
    A. The only thing that needs to be "fixed" (because there's nothing at all wrong with the laws already in effect in this country) is the record that these people play over and over and over and over, and; B. There's WAY more than "12 million" illegals here, and THEY need to be "helped" by their own damned countries. Americans are NOT obligated to take care of any Tom, Dick, or Harry that slithers through our borders ILLEGALLY. You want help? GO HOME! The only thing these people ADD to our country is MORE PROBLEMS!
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    ABC Poll 4/24/09
    abogada987
    "Would you support or oppose a program giving illegal immigrants now living in the United States the right to live here legally if they pay a fine and meet other requirements?" Support61% Oppose35% Unsure3%. This poll, like most taken on the subject, show that substantial majorities of Americans support comprehensive immigration reform. So long as the terms of the reform force those affected by it to meet financial and process sanctions, Americans are willing to accept it. The strident, anti-reform fringe is the small minority in these polls.
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