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Immigration deal may help 240,000 illegal Indians in US
Thursday January 31, 2013 12:04:40 PM,
Arun Kumar, IANS
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Washington: President Barack Obama hopes to get a comprehensive immigration reform law
offering a "pathway to citizenship" to 11 million illegal
immigrants, including 240,000 from India, done by the end of this
year.
In interviews with Hispanic television networks, Obama said that
significant details of a bill still must be worked out by
lawmakers, but the progress made by a bipartisan group of senators
has given him hope that a deal can get done.
However, given the deep divisions on the issue, Obama said that's
contingent on bipartisan negotiations continuing to proceed well.
"The only way this is going to get done is if the Republicans
continue to work with Democrats in Congress, in both chambers, to
get a bill to my desk," he was quoted as saying by ABC News. "And
I'm going to keep on pushing as hard as I can. I believe that the
mood is right."
Unveiling his own plan at a campaign style event at a Hispanic
majority high school in Las Vegas, Nevada, Obama Tuesday warned
that if Congress does not act "in a timely fashion" he will
propose a bill "and insist that they vote on it right away".
But on Wednesday he said he was content to let lawmakers hash out
the details among themselves for the time being.
"If they are on a path as they have already said, where they want
to get a bill done by March, then I think that's a reasonable
timeline and I think we can get that done."
"I'm not going to lay down a particular date because I want to
give them a little room to debate," he said. "If it slips a week,
that's one thing. If it starts slipping three months, that's a
problem."
A broad consensus seems to be emerging over immigration reform
with Latinos seen as crucial vote banks as 6.8 million or 59
percent of the illegal immigrants are from Mexico. El Salvador was
a distant second with 660,000.
At 240,000, barely making two percent of the undocumented
immigrants, India ranked seventh after Guatemala, Honduras, China
and the Philippines in 2011, according to a March 2012 Department
of Homeland Security report.
But illegal immigrants from India were among the fastest growing
with their numbers nearly doubling since 2000. Indian immigrants
are also generally better educated with many students overstaying
their visas as they endlessly wait for green cards.
(Arun Kumar can
be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)
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