Meeting to help Central Indiana immigrants prepare for immigration reform
Meeting to help Central Indiana immigrants prepare for immigration reform.
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Obama to NPR: #39;We Have To Show Realism, Practicality #39; On Immigration
In a year-end interview with NPR #39;s Steve Inskeep, President Obama says there are many in the Republican Party who recognize the need for comprehensive immigration reform. Read the story: ...
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GWEN IFILL: A new Congress arrives in Washington after the new year, even as many veterans head out.
Tonight and tomorrow, we talk to two of them, one Democrat and one Republican, about what they found here and what they now leave behind.
We begin tonight with Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia.
Judy conducted this exit interview a few days ago.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Senator Chambliss, thank you for talking with us.
So, you
SEN. SAXBY CHAMBLISS, (R) Georgia: Sure. Good to be with you.
(LAUGHTER)
JUDY WOODRUFF: You are retiring just as your party is about to take over the majority in the Senate, a new opportunity to work on some of the issues you care the most about. No regrets?
SEN. SAXBY CHAMBLISS: No regrets whatsoever, Judy.
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Outgoing Sen. Chambliss talks debt, immigration reform and hard-headed partisanship
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Over the span of several U.S. election cycles, there have been calls for comprehensive immigration reform to fix a system that people on both sides of the political spectrum agree is broken. But some observers say President Barack Obamas recent executive action aimed at temporarily shielding some undocumented foreigners from being deported may have doomed his longer-term goal of forging a comprehensive agreement with Congress.
Obamas recent executive action allows some four million undocumented residents in the United States to seek temporary legal status. But without Congressional approval, he cannot achieve comprehensive immigration reform.
Republicans, who won majorities in both houses of Congress in Novembers midterm elections, replied through Speaker of the House, John Boehner. Instead of working together to fix our broken immigration system, the president says he is acting on his own," he said. "That is just not how our democracy works.
Tony Payan, Director of the Mexico Center at Rice Universitys Baker Institute, says Obama's action will help a lot of people come out of the shadows and "essentially, become a little more integrated, in a legal, formal sense, into the American economy and the American society.
"But it was also very counterproductive because I feel that it polarized many of the Republicans who might have been willing to do something on immigration, he added.
While some undocumented immigrants support the move, others have mixed feelings about what they see as a temporary fix.
Payan says there are concerns about applying for legal status under this temporary measure.
Once they surrender their personal information to the government, once the government knows who they are and where they are and if the next president is not willing to extend that temporary protected status, then they are going to be found very quickly and to be denied, he said.
Republicans say they want to secure the border with Mexico before approving other measures. The surge of Central American immigrants at the Texas border earlier this year underscored this concern.
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