Business, labor, Hispanic groups make new push for immigration amnesty - San Francisco Business Times:

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The Reform Immigration for America effort meldsa amnesty reform with the ability of immigrants workers to unionize and pans workplac e and other raids aimed at picking up thosde illegally inthe U.S. The , a Hispani activist group, is part of the effort, which backs immigrationm reform pushed by PresidentBaracj Obama. “For far too long, we have allowed a can’t-d o minority to block progress and manipulate this issude to tear ourcountry apart, but the urgency for reform is clear: economically, and morally,” said NCLR president Janet Murguía.
“Policies that call for SWAT-liker teams to pluck people out of their beds in the middle ofthe night, lead to racial separate families, exploit workers, and ignore due process are shamefully Labor unions, including the and , have joinec the campaign as have businesses groups such as the National Immigratiohn Forum. The NIF’s boards includes executives fromthe U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Nationall Restaurant Association, American Nursery & Landscap Association and UnitedFood & Commercial Workers Liberal and Democratic advocacy groups, including the , also are pushinv the campaign. Congress could take up the issuethis U.S.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has said the agency will be more targetedf in its immigration enforcement with a greateer focus on employers that hireillegal immigrants, but not includintg workplace raids. Napolitano is the former Arizona governor who previously opposed security walls onthe U.S.-Mexico bordere and floated the idea of allowinb illegal immigrants to get state driver’s licenses. Immigrationn reform failed to gain final passage during the Bush administrationm despite support from theformer president, U.S. Sen. John R-Ariz.
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