Obama addresses immigration reform demonstrators demanding legal status for illegals

Thousands of immigration activists demonstrated in Washington, D.C. Sunday, calling for legislation to give legal status to millions of illegal immigrants.

President Obama addressed the protesters via video and affirmed his support for the Schumer/Graham immigration legislation outline.

The Schumer/Graham plan has "four pillars":

• Biometric Social Security cards to ensure that illegal workers cannot get jobs;

• Border security and interior enforcement;

• A process for admitting temporary workers; and

• A path to legalization for those already here.

Each of those pillars is controversial in its own right. The biometric social security cards are seen as a national identification card face technical issues and are widely opposed because of privacy, security, and federalism concerns. Border security raises the never-ending fence debate and the failure of the virtual fence. Unions object to temporary workers. You can't discuss a path to legalization without addressing amnesty.

Obama ran for president promising secure borders, increased number of legal immigrants, to
remove incentives for illegal immigration, and to allow undocumented immigrants who are in good standing to pay a fine, learn English, and go to the back of the line for the opportunity to become citizens. President Obama promised to make immigration reform a top priority of the first year of his presidency. When Obama backed away from that promise, Politifact rated his promise stalled.

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