[ti:Obama Urges Congress Reform Immigration Rules]
[ar:Steve Ember]
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[00:03.00]This is IN THE NEWS
[00:04.31]in VOA Special English.
[00:07.52]One of Barack Obama's
[00:09.75]campaign promises was
[00:12.14]to reform immigration policies.
[00:15.13]On Thursday he gave his
[00:17.91]first major speech
[00:19.41]on the issue as president.
[00:21.85]BARACK OBAMA: "In sum,
[00:22.96]the system is broken.
[00:24.10]And everybody knows it."
[00:26.70]One reason for the speech
[00:28.34]was the state of Arizona's
[00:30.33]recent passage of its own law
[00:33.22]against illegal immigration.
[00:35.55]That law has led to protests
[00:38.79]around the country.
[00:40.03]However, in public opinion surveys
[00:43.01]a majority of Americans
[00:46.04]support it.
[00:47.29]Mr. Obama criticized the law,
[00:50.28]but said such laws
[00:52.31]are the understandable result
[00:54.90]of inaction at the federal level.
[00:58.00]After his speech,
[00:59.89]religious leaders demonstrated
[01:02.44]to call for Congress
[01:03.98]to act this year.
[01:05.63]Rabbi Michael Feingold works
[01:08.71]with immigrant and low-wage
[01:10.90]workers in New York.
[01:12.69]MICHAEL FEINGOLD: "The way the system
[01:13.89]is now works for no one.
[01:15.12]It doesn't work for
[01:15.92]the immigrants themselves,
[01:17.57]it doesn't work for the government
[01:19.14]and it doesn't even work
[01:20.83]for some employers."
[01:21.57]The president said reform
[01:23.57]must be comprehensive,
[01:25.56]dealing not just
[01:27.25]with future immigrants
[01:28.64]but also those here now.
[01:30.74]An estimated eleven million
[01:33.81]are undocumented.
[01:35.71]BARACK OBAMA: "They must be required
[01:37.36]to admit that they broke the law.
[01:39.99]They should be required to register,
[01:42.13]pay their taxes, pay a fine
[01:45.12]and learn English.
[01:46.81]They must get right
[01:49.46]with the law before they can get
[01:51.37]in line and earn their citizenship."
[01:53.39]In his speech the president
[01:55.03]did not announce any new proposals.
[01:57.92]Even after his appeal,
[02:00.37]Congress may consider the issue
[02:02.82]too divisive to deal with
[02:05.40]before the November elections.
[02:07.75]In Arizona, officers are now being
[02:11.78]trained in the new law set
[02:14.12]to take effect July twenty-ninth.
[02:16.91]It requires police to confirm
[02:19.84]the immigration status of a person
[02:22.88]they meet during a lawful stop.
[02:25.53]That is only if the police
[02:28.57]have "reasonable suspicion"
[02:31.29]that the person is
[02:32.43]in the country illegally.
[02:34.89]The law bars police
[02:36.94]from detaining anyone
[02:38.59]based on ethnic or racial appearance.
[02:41.72]But Hispanics and others say
[02:45.28]it could still lead
[02:47.19]to racial profiling.
[02:48.78]They say people, including
[02:51.74]legal residents and American citizens,
[02:55.09]could be unfairly targeted.
[02:58.29]Police say one thing that
[03:01.36]makes discussion of this law difficult
[03:03.81]is that many critics
[03:05.90]have not read the law.
[03:08.35]Tucson police Sergeant Fabian Pacheco
[03:12.23]also notes that forty percent of officers
[03:16.48]in his city are Hispanic.
[03:18.72]Still, he says he worries that
[03:22.24]more people will avoid
[03:24.29]cooperating with the police,
[03:25.92]and that officers will have less time
[03:29.27]to fight more serious crimes.
[03:32.51]Some also worry that officers
[03:36.21]could be sued under the law
[03:38.45]by people who accuse them of
[03:41.13]not doing enough enforcement.
[03:43.87]At the same time,
[03:45.31]civil rights activists
[03:47.41]could accuse them of
[03:49.11]being too aggressive.
[03:51.05]The Obama administration
[03:52.94]and some Arizona cities hope
[03:55.96]to persuade a judge
[03:57.46]to block the new law.
[03:59.87]Arizona has become the point
[04:03.15]of entry for more than
[04:05.04]forty percent of
[04:06.53]illegal entrants from Mexico.
[04:09.06]The numbers grew
[04:11.21]after the federal government
[04:13.20]increased border controls
[04:15.34]in California and Texas.
[04:18.63]Some Arizona officials
[04:21.26]blame smugglers for a serious problem
[04:24.80]with kidnappings in the Phoenix area.
[04:27.93]Drug groups control much
[04:31.07]of the human smuggling.
[04:32.61]Some border crossers
[04:34.86]are victims of violence.
[04:36.55]Others die crossing the desert.
[04:39.76]An Arizona rancher was
[04:42.99]also killed this year
[04:44.44]-- probably, officials say,
[04:46.87]by a Mexican drug smuggler.
[04:49.81]And that's IN THE NEWS
[04:51.90]in VOA Special English.
[04:55.08]I'm Steve Ember.
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