"This will be the year" Congress passes immigration reform, Schumer says

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Schumer: "This will be the year" Congress passes immigration reform

Democratic leadership in the Senate believes "strongly," Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters today, "that this will be the year that Congress finally gets some common-sense immigration reform across the finish line."

Two days after President Obama delivered a speech in Las Vegas outlining his proposals for comprehensive reform on immigration that includes a path to citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants currently living in the United States, Schumer, the third-ranking Senate Democrat, said Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., "has told us he'll do whatever it takes to get a good, strong, bipartisan bill through the Senate."

Schumer said the goal is for the Senate's bill to get through by "late spring or summer," giving the Republican-led House "ample time" to pass legislation before the end of 2013.

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Though "we have a long way to go," Schumer said, the blueprint put forward by a bipartisan group of eight senators that largely aligns with the president's plan, "was a major breakthrough."

Mr. Obama on Wednesday in an interview with the Spanish-language television network Telemundo said he's looking to get his immigration proposals into law within the next six months. He also said in another interview, with Spanish-language Univision, he had "no doubt" that gun control legislation, in addition to immigration reform, can make it through the hoops of Washington this year. Appearing with Schumer today, Reid echoed that confidence.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee that on Wednesday held a hearing on gun violence, "can do both issues, and he's going to do both issues," Reid said. The majority leader also praised his colleagues for "legislating the way we're supposed to legislate," in terms of ushering bills through the committee structure, and said they will "treat both issues the same way."

Walking out of a Democratic caucus meeting today, Vice President Joe Biden reiterated the urgency of legislation to help curb the escalating gun violence in the United States, arguing the American people "will not understand if we don't act."

"Look, nothing we're going to do is going to fundamentally alter or eliminate the possibility of another mass shooting or guarantee that we will bring gun deaths down to a thousand a year from what it is now," Biden said. "But, there are things that we can do - demonstrably can do - that have virtually zero impact on your second amendment right to own a weapon for both self-defense and recreation that can save some lives. And the point that I was making in [the policy lunch meeting] is not a difficult equation.

"If I can prove that there is no constitutional impact on your right to bear arms and the action I'm suggesting can in fact demonstrably show some people could be saved, he continued, "then it seems to be a no-brainer."

[minyerva]

The millions here...... need to go back to their homes! The Mexicans, have Mexico, the Africans have Africa, the Asians have Asia, but when you FLOOD ALL and ONLY White countries with millions of non-Whites, thats genocide for the White Race!

Massive non-White immigration into ALL and ONLY White Countries + Assimilation = White genocide.

Anti-Racist is a code word for anti-White!

[EuropeanAmericanRKZ]

Everybody says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY White country and ONLY into White countries.

The Netherlands and Belgium are just as crowded as Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.

Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY White country and ONLY White countries to "assimilate," i.e., intermarry, with all those non-Whites.

What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-Blacks were brought into EVERY Black country and ONLY into Black countries?

How long would it take anyone to realize I'm not talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem?

And how long would it take any sane Black man to notice this and what kind of psycho Black man wouldn't object to this?

But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the White race, Liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.

They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-White.

Anti-racist is a code word for anti-White.

[jgg000010]

the story, cbs, is that the illegal peasants we will be granting amnesty to will receive obamacare. These are predominantly low-wage earners who taxpayers are going to have to support. Write THAT story.