Obama works to legalize current illegal immigrants

Jessie Thomas

Sleeplessness is very common for President Barack Obama and the House of Representatives after the battle with Syria and the government shut-down. Now, Obama wants to get involved and help illegal aliens, by proposing an act that provides freedom, something the U.S. promotes so well. This act is one that should have been enacted in years past.

Obama has set forth a motion to legalize the 11 million illegal immigrants currently living in the U.S. and to drastically reduce the number of deportations from 400,000. DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) was a bill passed in 2012 that Obama wants to expand in order to give immigrants a chance to fight for themselves and stay above water in the United States. It is called the Common Sense Reform.

If Common Sense is passed, the government will grant a two year work visa to immigrants, not amnesty in the U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is set to talk at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center in Atlanta to talk about the reform.

Posting on whitehouse.gov, “The event highlights the Administration’s celebration of citizenship and across-the-board commitment to passing Common Sense immigration reform that includes a pathway to earned citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living and working in the U.S. today.”

This act is tremendously more beneficial for immigrants than reformers who want full amnesty think, with anti immigration activist Mark Krikorian giving the statement to press, “No one who has ever been granted a visa through DACA has ever been sent home after their ‘temporary status has expired.’”

Once the bill has been passed, the immigrants who are illegal can take a route that can legally grant them citizenship, by paying taxes and a penalty, pass background checks and learn English.

Due to the amount of illegal immigrants, and efforts to help immigrants enter the country legally, our border security and our ability to remove criminals and threats to our national security will be strengthened. Passport and visa fraud will be lessened due to any migrant needing to have gone through a background check before being granted the legality of entering the U.S. on the pathway to citizenship.

An $800 billion deduction to the deficit of the U.S. and a $1.4 trillion increase in the GDP will be established in the next twenty years if this bill passes, says Obama on whitehouse.gov. This can cause people in the United States to believe that the government might be poisoned by the fact of a reduced deficit to vote yes solely on the reason of money, not taking into account the other terms.

Time is running out as Obama and the House try to get this bill passed, even after the government shutdown.