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"Policy Is Lazy": Immigration Reform Still In Suspense

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This week’s editorial was meant to address immigration reform since this issue, twice postponed due to “lack of time”, was finally going to be addressed in a meeting between President Obama and leaders of both parties in Congress.

On Thursday June 25 at two o’clock in the afternoon as a result of that much anticipated meeting, expectations were of jump starting a necessary and urgent immigration reform.

Obama’s credibility was at stake, more so after his delay in addressing the issue, he needed to face the immigrant community to whom he promised an integral immigration reform, which in his own words was “just around the corner” according to a statement he made during a Hispanic Prayer Breakfast.

During the week contradicting statements were circulated on whether there existed or not sufficient votes to ensure immigration reform, fomenting an ever-growing air of uncertainty.

For the Press Secretary and for the Chief of Cabinet, the votes were not there yet, while for Senator Charles Schummer the necessary votes did exist.  Thereafter the buck was passed to figure now whether the Senate or the House of Representatives should start discussing Immigration Reform.

Then the White House announced that the meeting would only last 40 minutes, no additional time was needed to state the now common knowledge that “Obama was committed to carry out an integral immigration reform”.

Neither the mainstream news media, nor the Hispanic advocacy organizations even bothered to mention this subject.

The ‘jump-starting’ of immigration reform is still pending, while in Los Angeles some immigrants gathered to pray for a reform.

That is why this editorial is rather dedicated to five ex convicts of Philadelphia who are now helping troubled teenagers.  “Policy is lazy, but here things are done at the moment” stated an anthropologist and member of the group.  These ex convicts know they are perceived with the sense of “awe” characteristic of the “bad guys in the ‘hood”, using that fame they persuade youngsters the leave behind bad habits.

Men In Motion for the Community (MIMIC) constitute old legends of drug sellers in the neighborhood and they want these children to learn from their bad experiences in jail and to desist from a life without a future.

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