President Obama Plans Major Push for Immigration Reform, With Amnesty Possible

Source: The Raw Story

President Barack Obama will announce Tuesday during a speech near the U.S. border that he plans a fresh push for immigration policy reform ahead of the 2012 election, calling for a legislative solution that comes from Congress instead of his desk alone.

The White House and other officials will promote the debate by staging a series of community town halls to raise the debate's profile in the media and bring in more voices than just the president's, Raw Story has learned.

The town halls will be modeled similarly to the community debates that took place during the president's push for health reform.

The president and supportive officials are expected to lean heavily on an economic argument for immigration reform: turning the earners of illegal incomes into law-abiding taxpayers, which is seen by some economists as a potentially powerful economic driver. Some critics call this approach to immigration reform "amnesty," but administration officials are likely to shy away from that term due to its political implications.

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how offering a way to make illegal immigrants into legal US citizens is "amnesty"? Amnesty, as I understand it, is essentially unilaterally absolving somebody for their misconduct.