<font size=”2″ style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;”>Senator Charles E. Schumer, <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Democrat</span> of New York and the chairman of
that subcommittee, has been writing an overhaul bill and consulting
with <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Republicans, </span>particularly Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.</font><p style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”><font size=”2″>The Obama administration will insist on measures to give legal
status to an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants <span style=”color: rgb(255, 0, 0);”>[It’s more like 30/40 million. — Ed</span> as it pushes early
next year for legislation to overhaul the immigration system, Homeland
Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Friday.</font></p>
<p style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”><font size=”2″>In her first major speech on the overhaul, Ms. Napolitano dispelled
any suggestion that the administration — with health care, energy and
other major issues crowding its agenda — would postpone the most
contentious piece of immigration legislation until after midterm
elections next November.</font></p>
<p style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”><font size=”2″>Laying out the administration’s bottom line, Ms. Napolitano said
officials would argue for a "three-legged stool" that includes tougher
enforcement laws against illegal immigrants and employers who hire them
and a streamlined system for legal immigration, as well as a "tough and
fair pathway to earned legal status."</font></p><font size=”2″ style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”>[snip<br /><br />"Let me emphasize this: we will never have fully effective law
enforcement or national security as long as so many millions remain in
the shadows," she said, adding that the recovering economy would be
strengthened "as these immigrants become full-paying taxpayers."<br /><br /></font><a href=”http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09318/1013585-84.stm”><font size=”2″ style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”>Continue…</font></a><br /><br /><font size=”2″ style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 255);”><span style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”>’They will bring with them the principles of the governments they
leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw them off, it
will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is
usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to
stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles,
with their language, they will transmit to their children. In
proportion to their numbers, they will share with us the legislation.
They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and
render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass. I may appeal to
experience, during the present contest, for a verification of these
conjectures.’ — Thomas Jefferson<br /></span></font><p style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);”><font size=”2″>
[From Notes on the State of Virginia, ed. William Peden (Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American
History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1954), 84-5.</font></p><br /><a href=”http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09318/1013585-84.stm”></a><div style=”border: medium none ; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;” id=”TixyyLink”><br /><br /></div>