Ideas for Change in Immigration Policy

by Dave Bennion · 2008-11-24 21:38:00 UTC
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As Harry Reid cracks open the door for immigration reform next year, the pro-migrant community is pondering ways to avoid two of the unacceptable outcomes that were on offer in 2007: no bill at all, which would leave millions of people in the cold ... again; or an enforcement-heavy bill laden with goodies for the Dick Cheneys and Joe Arpaios of the world, which would leave the problems of many thousands of families unresolved or even worse than they are now.

Do you have some ideas for positive change in mind?  An innovation that the opinion leaders have overlooked?  Or an urgent issue that the public has not yet come to understand?

You could send your ideas directly to President-elect Obama's transition team, but why not leverage the social networking, Idol-era power of the intertubes to shoot your idea straight to Obama's desk?

Submit your idea to change.org here, then push it out to your network, get your friends to vote for it, put it on your Facebook page-do whatever the kids are doing today that I'm too old to know about.

The top idea for each issue area, including Immigration, will be presented to President Obama for the administration's review.

DreamActivist's idea, just submitted earlier today, has already rocketed into the lead, bypassing mine-the challenge is on!  (This is a win-win situation, I think.)  Find out more here.

Dave Bennion
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