I was listening to a talk show station this morning, and the host stated that potentially it would mean that up to 12 million illegals would become legal citizens. His concern had to do with what the impact would be to the job market given the current employment slowdown taking place. This would also likely impact salaries driving them downward in the process. More voters for the Democratic party will probably come of this as well.
While acknowledging that the recession makes the political battle more difficult, President Obama plans to begin addressing the country's immigration system this year, including looking for a path for illegal immigrants to become legal, a senior administration official said on Wednesday.
Mr. Obama will frame the new effort -- likely to rouse passions on all sides of the highly divisive issue -- as "policy reform that controls immigration and makes it an orderly system," said the official, Cecilia Muñoz, deputy assistant to the president and director of intergovernmental affairs in the White House.
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