WABE – FM Atlanta

Renewed push for immigration reform
Charles Edwards

ATLANTA, GA
(2009-06-01) Next week, President Obama talks about immigration reform. Today, groups in Atlanta and across the country defined what it means to them.

WABE’s Charles Edwards reports
The national group, Reform Immigration for America, includes the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials. GALEO President Jerry Gonzales says doing something is better than nothing.

GONZALES: “If we don’t have a solution, essentially that’s a defacto amnesty and we want to make sure we move away from that situation to a workable, enforceable solution that keeps families together.”

Gonzales admits there are more than 10 million illegal immigrants in America. But he argues it should not take foreigners more than 10 years to immigrate legally. But opponents like D.A. King, who heads the Dustin Inman Society, don’t buy into such efforts.

KING: “Comprehensive immigration reform is code for amnesty again. It’s amnesty in ’86. It’s amnesty today. It’s amnesty tomorrow. It’s amnesty forever. The final goal is open borders.”

As for 1986, King is referring to the federal immigration reform act passed that year. King argues that law failed to curb illegal immigration.

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