Stanford professor leads Obama immigration team (illegals, law, spokeswoman, Mexican)

[JDubsMom]

Stanford law Professor Tino Cuéllar was named this week to lead President-elect Barack Obama's transition working group on immigration, putting him among the many scholars from the Bay Area who are helping shape the next administration.

The team is one of seven policy groups Obama has convened to develop priorities for the first months of his presidency on topics ranging from education to the economy to national security.

The task of overhauling the nation's immigration system stymied President Bush, who favored an approach combining tougher enforcement with legalization for the country's estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants and a guest worker program to allow low-skilled foreign workers to enter legally in the future. Congress twice hammered out "comprehensive" bills on the issue, but Bush lacked the political capital to get the measures passed.

Obama must not only navigate the choppy political waters surrounding an immigration reform bill, but also address many related issues - whether to back an electronic workplace verification system up for reauthorization, how to tackle the unwieldy bureaucracy at the citizenship agency and whether to continue the current immigration enforcement raids.

Through a law school spokeswoman, Cuéllar declined to be interviewed, but lawyers and immigration experts across the country praised him Friday for his intellect and his grasp of both regulatory minutiae and the big picture of American immigration policy.

"He's brilliant beyond his years," said John Trasviña, president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, who met Cuéllar when he was a law student at Yale and encouraged him to go to work in Washington.



http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/21/BA2I149R42.DTL

We can only hope that there is a racial/ethnic balance appointed to this "team" whose recommendations will either do what is best for this country or put the wheels of total demise in motion.

[tinman01]

From Stanford? From the Bay Area? My god could have chosen anyone worse?

[JDubsMom]

Originally Posted by tinman01

From Stanford? From the Bay Area? My god could have chosen anyone worse?

I'm sure LaRaza and the rest of the ethnocentric racists are thrilled with his choice.

[tinman01]

Originally Posted by JDubsMom

I'm sure LaRaza and the rest of the ethnocentric racists are thrilled with his choice.

Why didn't he just appoint the ambassador from Mexico? Same result. He just lost 5 more points with me.

[ArizonaBear]

Again guys: watch the economy..............

[camping!]

Gee, the guy has MALDEFs approval -- I wonder what else we need to know?

So much for Obama's immigration turn around during the election , eh?

[big mean bear]

That's it! We're done for! I knew Obama would bend like a lawn chair on immigration....

[blacknight04]

Wonderful news.

[High Springs Gator]

Originally Posted by blacknight04

Wonderful news.

Curious. How does amnesty benefit you.

[ArizonaBear]

As I have commented on in the past: if Obama panders to the illegals and their enablers---------there will be hell to pay.