President Barack Obama has finally owned up to his promise that he'd seek to reform immigration laws in the United Sates. The White House has leaked details about President Barack Obama's immigration bill. The information reveals intimate details about President Obama's immigration bill reform will work. The leaked document reveals how undocumented immigrants may have better opportunities to become permanent residents within an eight-year span.
President Barack Obama is expected to propose a "Lawful Prospective Immigrant" visa that will give promise to the nearly 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the country. If the visa proposal is approved, it would allow non-citizen workers to also apply for their spouse or children living outside the country, which would ensure that families aren't broken apart during the legalization process. The bill also suggests greater funding to security and requires business owners to check the immigration status of people that are being hired.
"The president has made clear the principles upon which he believes any common-sense immigration reform effort should be based," Clark Stevens, a White House spokesman, said in a statement. "We continue to work in support of a bipartisan effort, and while the president has made clear he will move forward if Congress fails to act, progress continues to be made and the administration has not prepared a final bill to submit."
Although President Barack Obama has already written his immigration reform policy, both chambers of Congress are busy drafting their own immigration bills. USA Today reports that a bipartisan group of representatives has been working on an immigration policy for several years, and they're expected to finish writing their own version of the bill.
"The bill mirrors many provisions of the bipartisan 2007 bill that was spearheaded by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and ultimately failed," reported USA Today, which received the leaked document.
Obama has been criticized through most of his first presidency for not attempting to make an impact in immigration despite promising to do so during his campaign run. Obama was famously asked on Univision why he hadn't lived up to his promise. Finally, the nation is likely to see a concerted effort from Obama toward reforming our immigration policies.
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