It’s safe to say Barack Obama is the talk of the town, even the nation, but what will his new presidency usher in? Just Neighbors’ primary concern with the new administration is how immigration policy will be altered.
“I really think we can pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill,” said Obama repeatedly on the campaign trail. But what exactly is comprehensive immigration reform?
President Obama describes his plan in two folds.
First, the country needs to prevent more undocumented immigrants from coming across the borders. More vital to Just Neighbors and their cause is the second half of his plan. Obama is confident that decreasing the bureaucratic process associated with naturalization and helping current undocumented immigrants are both plausible goals.
Obama hopes to ‘bring people out of the shadows’, offering undocumented immigrants in good standing the opportunity to become citizens in a fair manner.
President Bush says one of his biggest regrets while in office was his inability to pass comprehensive immigration reform. If the Obama administration succeeds where Bush failed, Just Neighbors could become a driving force in
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