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PELOSI INDICATES DEMOCRATS WILL MOVE ON IMMIGRATION REFORM

By Greg Siskind

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From an interview in today's Los Angeles Times:

Pelosi also said Congress would have to tackle the politically sticky job of overhauling immigration laws in the new Congress, after a bipartisan measure collapsed last year.
The estimated 12 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally "are part of the U.S. economy. We cannot send them all home, and we cannot send them all to jail, so we have to address it," Pelosi said.
Any solution would have to be bipartisan, she said, so it may require sacrificing some of Democrats' past priorities, such as giving illegal immigrants a path to citizenship.
"Maybe there never is a path to citizenship if you came here illegally," Pelosi said. "I would hope that there could be, but maybe there isn't."

This is certainly an indication that if President McCain or Obama decide to push immigration reform in their 100 day agenda, they'll find a willing Congress. While some in the hard core pro-immigrant community will no doubt push to kill any bill that does not include a path to citizenship, hopefully they will realize after two prior failures that the only way we will improve the immigration system is to accept compromise. The perfect is the enemy of the good, folks.

Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on October 23, 2008 (boomark / email).