Obama's immigration plan would allow 8-year path to legal citizenship as well as increase in border security funding and requirement for employers to check immigration status
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The draft administration bill, which USA Today disclosed Saturday, adds several new details to what President Obama previously had said in public.
It would create a “lawful prospective immigrant” visa, for example, for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States, and establish a process to allow qualified applicants to become permanent residents within eight years.It would provide for an unspecified increase in funding for border security. It also would require employers to develop a system to check the immigration status of new hires within four years.
White House pushes back on GOP criticism of draft immigration bill - latimes.com