Immigration reform just can’t wait till 2010

President of the United States, Barack Obama reiterated his support towards the establishment of a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants in the US while he was departing from a recent North American summit with Canadian and Mexican leaders. But his words sounded hollow for millions of Hispanic Americans who voted to elect him for a change.

The approach of the Obama administration towards immigration policy changes has been annoyingly slow, and the direction and pace of any probable transformation in the wrong-headed system is far from being satisfactory.

Taking all issues into consideration one can say that the attention of the administration is divided, as it is facing unexpected military, financial, political and diplomatic crisis both within the country and outside. But in spite of all this, immigration policy reform cannot be dragged till 2010.

As we wait for change, damage would be done to many more families of either side of the border, many more citizens of America would be improperly arrested and kept in detention, far too much money of taxpayers would be wasted on poor implementation of enforcement programs.

Not only this, even the police chiefs of the nation are shouting for change in policy which was evident in the month of July when over hundred of them gathered in Phoenix and shared their opinions with officials of Homeland Security.

Police Chief Steven Carl marked that his town is being torn apart due to bad policies and inconsistent enforcements and that immigrant population are bring hated more than ever.