White House Plan on Legal Immigration Included

Obama will be pressure to adopt measures to give legal status to approximately 12 million illegal immigrants and the push early next year for legislation to change the immigration system, said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Fridays. In his first major speech on the review, Mrs. Napolitano was no recommendation that the administration would - with health, energy and other important issues crowding the agenda - the most controversial piece of immigration legislation that postponed the election until after another month interim November.

Building bottom line on the administration, Mrs. Napolitano said the officials would call for three "-legged stool" that law enforcement against stricter illegal immigrants and employers who hire them and streamlined system for legal immigration, a "hard and treatment path includes earned legal status. "

And unemployment is rising more than 10 per cent and Congress still wrangling on health care, lawyers on each side of the immigration debate began to doubt that President Obama on his promise Divisive the illegal immigration problem in the first months of 2010 would be adopted.

Speaking at the Center for American Progress, the liberal policy group in Washington, Ms. Napolitano exposure to double-bairille argument for legalization program, said it would strengthen national security and as the economy climbs out of recession, American workers in against unfair competition from lower-paid, easily exploited illegal immigrants.

"Let me stress this: we will not be fully effective law enforcement or national security as long as many millions remain in the Shadows," she said, adding that the economy would strengthen back ", as taxpayers total immigrants to pay. "

Under the administration of the plan illegal immigrants would be expected to obtain legal status register, and pay any taxes they are indebted, pass a criminal background check and learn Español.

Drawing a comparison with 2007, when a bill with legalization provisions offered by President George W. Bush failed in Congress, Ms. Napolitano said Obama did the administration change "fundamental" in the border region security and enforcement against employers of illegal immigrants reached. She said that a sharp decline in the flow of illegal immigrants in the country created an opportunity to continue the program of legalization.

Some Republicans were quick to conclude that Ms. Napolitano was significantly improved border security or that have helped American workers with illegal immigrants in the challenge system.

"How can they claim that when making the maintenance of more than one thousand of 400 open border with Mexico?" Frequently Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, the senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee. He said the administration should "deport illegal immigrants, so that they continue to compete with the citizen and legal immigrant jobseekers."

But agreed by Texas Senator John Cornyn, the top Republican on the Judiciary subcommittee on immigration, it was time to open the immigration debate. "Not My commitment to changing immigration reform," he said in a statement Fri "I'm interested in looking at a proposal earlier rather than later by President Obama."

Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York and chairman of this subcommittee, has written an account review and consultation with the Republicans, notably Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. Mr. Schumer said that the agenda of the administration "ambitious," but that he can "we hope the bipartisan immigration bill ready to go to the extent appropriate with the president that has the best line."

Ms. Napolitano is leading efforts by the government for ideas and support on immigration overhaul, which collect together in recent weeks with business leaders, religious groups, law enforcement and other measurements that are willing to proceed with the debate in Congress.

Framing the proposals on the administrative law and order in stark terms, she said immigration laws must be stricter laws against migrant smugglers and stricter penalties for employers who hire unauthorized workers to adopt.

Ms. Napolitano was an increase in the Border Patrol from 20,000 officers and more than one thousand of 600 border fence was completed, meeting security benchmarks set by Congress in 2007. She echo argument adopted by Mr. Bush after the fall of 2007 bill, and Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, a race against Mr. Obama. She said that Americans wanted to see the document with the effective enforcement before they would agree to the legal status to millions of illegal immigrants.

Some immigrant advocates were dismayed by Ms. Napolitano approach. Benjamin E. Johnson, director of the American Immigration Council, the proposed package of recommendations, but she said some policies in place which set out "It was more harm than good."