“The time to fix our broken immigration system is now… We need stronger enforcement on the border and at the workplace… But for reform to work, we also must respond to what pulls people to America… Where we can reunite families, we should. Where we can bring in more foreign-born workers with the skills our economy needs, we should”
Barack Obama, Statement on U.S. Senate Floor, May 23, 2007ce
Obama makes several points on how he feels about immigration in this article. He takes into consideration both sides and points of view. He stresses the fact that the upper positions in the work world have to stop hiring illegal immigrants allowing immigrants to believe it will be okay to come over illegally. By making the process of coming over to the united states easier, Obama believes more people will go through the process after passing certain tasks such as, learning english, paying a fine and a few other personal questionnaires . This plan seems to lay out a good start as to an approach to clean up the systems in charge of immigration. Obama also brings in the fact, which is included in the quote, that he believes all people should be welcomed in America; however, he also knows that we cannot continue to allow everyone to stay here. In order to fix this issue, we, as America, can take on the role of helping other countries become financially stable. If people in other countries could find promising jobs and be granted more freedoms, perhaps they would have more motive to stay in their homeland. Although it seems farfetched, Obama has begun placing together bills, creating laws for the immigration systems and is looking into deeper relationships with countries. such as Mexico, who need our help.
Obama strongly recognizes the importance on a family staying together. He does not believe that even though someone in a family is here illegally that they should not be able to be reunited with the other members of their family. This is another reason, Obama claims, that we should make the immigration system smoother which would encourage all immigrants to move into our country legally when they want to.
Many people have a problem with immigration because they fear terrorists or other "dangerous" people will enter our country and try to attempt to do something that would harm us all. To lower the fear of this, Obama has also worked with the FBI on the background checks, promising that they will be more intent, resulting in a much lower possibility of someone harmful towards the US from coming in.
Overall, it seems as if Obama has fully thought out his point of view, and a law thats for the good of all the people and combined them to his best ability. I think all the attempts are excellent ideas and not matter what the US has a long path before we come to a complete solution but Obama is heading the right way and hopefully in not too many years to come we can see a change where all people are able to live and work where they please.
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