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Raids to become the focus of immigration policy push
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Jan 13, 2009 09:56pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, January 14, 2009 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Jared Allen
Posted: 01/13/09 07:31 PM [ET]
Hispanic Democrats are changing their strategy to get a sweeping rewrite of immigration laws passed, focusing attention on controversial workplace raids that have increased in the absence of a legislative fix.
A handful of House and Senate leaders are set to meet this week to lay out a new course, which participants said will be centered around a grassroots campaign designed to elicit a greater level of awareness over the ramifications of a “raids-first” immigration policy.
Participating in the strategy session will be the highest-ranking Hispanic in Congress, House Democratic Caucus Vice Chairman Xavier Becerra (Calif.), as well as Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chairwoman Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.), CHC Immigration Task Force Chairman Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), who after Sen. Ken Salazar’s (D-Colo.) imminent retirement will be the only remaining Hispanic Democrat in the Senate.
The group’s renewed effort will complement its ongoing push for so-called “Comprehensive Immigration Reform,” which failed to pass in both the 109th and 110th Congresses. A number of Republicans and some Democrats object to a provision in that proposal that would put more than 12 million illegal immigrants currently living in the United States on a path to citizenship. |
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