Homeland secretary pushes immigration reform ("border security goals have been met"- BARF)
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, the White House point person on immigration, said Friday that Congress must provide temporary worker programs and a path to citizenship for 12 million undocumented workers when it takes up reform legislation next year. Napolitano was optimistic a reform bill could pass in an election year because border security goals have been met and the economic downturn has decreased illegal immigration significantly since a bipartisan bill died in the Senate two years ago. "I know a major shift when I see one, and what I have seen makes reform far more attainable this time around,"...
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