{"id":313,"date":"2010-02-22T13:29:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T19:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=313"},"modified":"2010-02-22T15:56:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T21:56:15","slug":"president-obama-remains-firmly-comimtted-to-immigration-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"President Obama &#8220;Remains Firmly Committed to Immigration Reform&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 28, 2010, President Obama reconfirmed his commitment to comprehensive immigration reform through his spokesperson, Valerie Jarrett.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/epa\/article\/ALeqM5gwD_e-sfixViCLWwfaztDv2YgXaA\" target=\"_blank\">Jarrett asegur\u00f3 que la reforma migratoria es parte de la agenda de  Obama. &#8220;Por eso lo incluy\u00f3 en su discurso&#8221;, subray\u00f3. &#8220;Todo lo que estaba  incluido en ese discurso va a ser una prioridad&#8221;, con independencia del  espacio que se le dedicase, coment\u00f3.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In his State of the Union speech, Obama has spent little time discussing immigration reform but did state that &#8220;we should  continue work to fix our broken immigration system, to ensure border  security, enforce our laws and make sure every person who meets the  rules could help.&#8221;\u00a0 A senior official with the Obama administration later cautioned that any immigration reform would have to be done in a bipartisan manner.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007 when then President Bush proposed sweeping immigration reform, the democrats were mostly supportive and the bill was ultimately <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSN2742643820070629\" target=\"_blank\">defeated by Republicans in the Senate<\/a>.\u00a0 If Mr. Obama is waiting for Senate Republicans to join him in supporting immigration reform, it just isn&#8217;t going to happen.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll have to wait at least to 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 28, 2010, President Obama reconfirmed his commitment to comprehensive immigration reform through his spokesperson, Valerie Jarrett. Jarrett asegur\u00f3 que la reforma migratoria es parte de la agenda de Obama. &#8220;Por eso lo incluy\u00f3 en su discurso&#8221;, subray\u00f3. &#8220;Todo lo que estaba incluido en ese discurso va a ser una prioridad&#8221;, con independencia del &#8230; <a title=\"President Obama &#8220;Remains Firmly Committed to Immigration Reform&#8221;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=313\" aria-label=\"Read more about President Obama &#8220;Remains Firmly Committed to Immigration Reform&#8221;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comprehensive-immigration-reform","tag-comprehesive-immigration-reform"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}