President Obama
is expected to give his immigration reform address in Las Vegas at 1:55 p.m. CT
were released on the White House’s site yesterday. For those who have not read the document, they include border security, employer accountability, responsibility for people who are living here illegally and a pathway to citizenship.
Yesterday was marked by the bipartisan plan unveiled by five of the eight senators, four from each party, who had worked on the agreement.
The plan, crafted by four Republicans and four Democrats, is comprised of four elements: creating a pathway to citizenship for the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants (contingent upon securing the nation’s borders first), reforming the legal immigration system, establishing an effective employment verification system, and creating an improved process for admitting into the U.S. valuable workers,
.
The pathway to citizenship,
for conservative opponents, especially in the House of Representatives.
This was just one of many reactions to the senators’ plan.
about local immigration groups’ having a favorable response.
Gay activists responded favorably
, too, according to conservative blog Illinois Review.
of the Sun-Times
on the rare, and potentially temporary, senatorial cooperation.
of CNN
whether this was a function of a new spirit of bipartisanship or political necessity.
Illinois Review
of Florida Senator
advancing the plan on the
. Rubio
on Rush Limbaugh’s show.
Illinois Review also
critique of the plan.
For her part, Maureen Mackay of Business Insider
posted 21 surprising facts about illegal immigration
.
Obama will offer his own facts in his address, which is slated to begin in a little more than an hour.
