The Obama administration will insist on measures to give legal status to an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants as it pushes early next year for legislation to overhaul the immigration system, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Friday.

In an address at the Center for American Progress, a liberal policy group in Washington, Ms. Napolitano sought to dispel any notion that the administration — with health care, energy and other major issues crowding its agenda — might postpone the most contentious piece of an immigration overhaul until after midterm elections next November.

Laying out the administration’s bottom line, she said it will argue for a “three-legged stool” that includes enacting tougher enforcement laws against illegal immigrants and the people who hire them, and streamlining the system for legal immigration, but also what she called a “tough and fair pathway to earned legal status.”

With unemployment surging over 10 percent and Congress wrestling with health care, advocates on all sides of the immigration debate had started to doubt that President Obama

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this is soo unfair...people who abide by the law and follow the immigration rules are the first to be sidetracked!!! go immigration law

more thane two yers in US thane  tax should be  file . must be illigal . they can file  green card ...

Wayat! Of course, Thapa Ta Ho, should gave gone to HK or UK, but end up in US. THE FACT YOU HAVE POSTED IS AN OLD NEWS OF NOVEMBER 2009.