Obama and Immigration

    Today, it seem as though the immigration news are to: what, whos and whys are up in the air. According to Obama , on Thursday he said that he would proceed with an overhaul of the immigration system standards for this year. Now if he does, what will it entail? Could he attract a fair amount of Republican support or not? Many of the Republicans say that the immigrtion bill could not go forward due to the President using a legistaive shortcut to be sidestepping the repubilcans to pass his health care bill. As the White House continued to call meetings to show a continued interest in immigration reform and overhaul. This issued has been on the back burner, from last year no less. On March 21/ 2010, a rally of immigrant groups gathered at the Washingtion. These groups have been waiting and want to see the immigration legislation pass this year. A total of no less than 100,000 people max. turned out for this event. Several senators are sponsoring this issue, preparing for this bill to pass.
    According to Mr. Graham he stated " in no certaian terms that the immigration debate could come to a halt for the year if the president moved to pass health care legislation by a method known as a reconciliation, which requires a majority of 51 senators instead of 60 and would in practice require no Republican votes".
    Since the loss of its supermajority in January, the White House has been laying the groud work for a possible reconciliation. During which in Massachusetts Senate election had no found that they had no support from Republicans. Thursday show that Obama took effort the reconsider Mr. Graham's warning. The prsident had a separate meeting with immigrant advocate, labor leaders, Roman Chatholics, and evengelical Christian leaders for support of te overhaul so that this move will give millions of illegal immigrants legal staus.