Sunday, February 3, 2013
Immigration
Earlier this week a bipartisan group of Senators and President Obama each unveiled immigration reform plans. Each plan contains a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented workers living in the U.S. Both plans are attached to this post. The Senate plan, whose supporters include Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin and Florida Republican Marco Rubio, states that reform should include tougher border security, while also providing an opportunity for citizenship to those already living in the U.S. The plan states that undocumented workers would be "required to go to the back of the line of prospective immigrants, pass an additional background check, pay taxes, learn English and civics, demonstrate a history of work in the United …
Friday, November 16, 2012
Sheriff Mark Curran, who supports bill requiring all Illinois motorists be licensed and insured, explains he feels it's the right thing to do.
Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran is use to getting hate mail. His unorthodox approach and views, like spending a week in the county jail to bring attention to conditions, have garnered him plenty of hate mail. But Curran doesn’t care, he’s just trying to do the right thing, he said. And so, he’s backing a state bill that may not be wildly popular but a law that Curran feels would make roads safer. He has joined with the Highway Safety Coalition to lobby for a bill requiring all Illinois motorists be licensed and insured, including undocumented immigrants. One reason he wants to see the General Assembly pass a bill sponsored by Illinois Senate President John Cullerton and House Rep. Edward Acevedo, is there are 250,000 undocumented …
Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran Jr. joins a coalition along with other sheriffs to push bill through General Assembly.
Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran Jr. is backing a bill requiring all Illinois drivers be licensed and insured including undocumented immigrants. Curran joined with the Highway Safety Coalition Tuesday in a press conference Tuesday calling on the Illinois General Assembly to “have courage and put highway safety first by passing legislation in veto session 2012 to require all Illinois drivers to be licensed and insured.” “There are a lot of undocumented immigrants that need to get to work and by virtue of the way the system is set up, by having to have a social security number, are not eligible to get a driver’s license,” Curran said. “By making sure they get licenses, we can ensure that they are going through a process (to learn) the Rules …
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7:16 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013
Attitudes about immigration policy priorities: Among U.S. adults, 28% say the priority for dealing with illegal immigration should be given to tighter restrictions on illegal immigration while 27% say creating a path to citizenship should be the priority. A plurality (42%) says both tactics should be given equal priority. “Latinos” are more likely than the general public (42% versus 27%) to say … more ›