Current Event : 'Now's the time' to move on immigration,

In a recent article by Corey Dade, A national correspondent for the NPR Digital News , entitled " Obama Lays Out Immigration Plan But Avoids Thorny Issues"   informs Obama finally giving "a route to citizenship for the more than 11 million illegal immigrants living in the U.S.


"The good news if for the first time in many years, Republicans and Democrats seem ready to tackle this problem together," Obama said in Las Vegas. "The question is do we have the resolve as a people, as a country, as a government, to finally put this issue behind us? I believe if we resolve as a people, as a country, as a government we can obtain something good of it and then put the issue behind us.


"Of course I wanted more," says Kica Matos, a spokeswoman for the pro-immigrant group Fair Immigration Reform Movement. "We want to hear, for those of us who have been working so hard for long time frames, specifics of the legislation, exactly how we're going to get at citizenship. But we're certainly heartened that the speech happened in the first place and that the president finally, in a very public way, is taking this on."  Illegal immigrants have been waiting for a opportunity to get citizenship so that we can work and drive with out fear. Some many illegal immigrants have been working so hard for a long time and have the hope that some day we will have the opportunity get citizenship.


"Obama did warn lawmakers, however, that he'd "send up my own proposal and insist that they vote on it right away" if they steer negotiations on a bill into partisan gridlock." I believe that its good that Obama is commited to obtain something that has always been promised by some president have left the issue behind.

As an Hispanic student I have been waiting for this opportunity to be able to get a good education, and job and be able to get citizeship.

If we resolve this issue as a country i believe we can obtain something good of it , it can be good for the economy and other things .