Wednesday, April 08, 2009

A Plan To Influence And Convince: Strategic Advice For The Legislative Passage Of CIR In 2009

This article gives lots of good reasons for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. - - Donna Poisl

by Robert Gittelson

The President has requested our council regarding strategies for successfully pursuing Comprehensive Immigration Reform, (CIR), this year through Congress. In a recent radio interview on Spanish language radio, he told the interviewer, "get the various immigrant rights groups together and have them start providing some advice in terms of what strategies we're going to pursue in Congress." I, for one, am taking this matter seriously, and taking President Obama at his word.

He has asked for advice, and I have advice, so here it goes. I have been suggesting for the past two years, that both the enforcement-leaning right and the human rights-leaning left, have many more reasons to pass CIR than to reject CIR.
Be sure to read the rest of this story! This is only a small part of it.

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