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Obama Immigration Reform Plan Met With Republican Backlash

Kiran Kazalbash |
February 17, 2013 | 9:50 a.m. PST

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President Barack Obama’s Immigration bill was met with much hostility in the Senate, Sunday morning, as some republican senators are saying it will be ‘dead on arrival.’

President Obama Drafts Immigration Reform Back-Up Plan. (Creative Commons)
President Obama Drafts Immigration Reform Back-Up Plan. (Creative Commons)

The drafted White House immigration plan will allow for the over 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country to obtain legal permanent residence within eight years by a "Lawful Prospective Immigrant" visa, according to a report by USA Today.

The bill, which White House staff says has not been officially proposed, is being scrutinized by the “gang of eight” bipartisan senators working on their own immigration reform.

One of the eight, Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida said, It would make immigration problems worse because, "It fails to follow through on previously broken promises to secure our borders, (and) creates a special pathway that puts those who broke our immigration laws at an advantage over those who chose to do things the right way and come here legally.” 

Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky told Fox News, the bill would not pass and that the president is “torpedoing his own plan.”

CNN Reports, Democratic Senator in the “gang of eight” Chuck Schumer was not troubled with the President’s back up plan but is optimistic that by March the senators will have created a bipartisan bill.

 

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