Sickening...
Posted on 08/10/2009 2:34:55 PM PDT by neverdem
GUADALAJARA, Mexico — President Obama said Monday that efforts to change the immigration system would be a major focus for his administration only next year, after other major priorities were accomplished, including passage of a new health care system.
“It’s very important for us to sequence these big initiatives in a way where they don’t all just crash at the same time,” he said, according to The Associated Press.
Mr. Obama, flanked by the leaders of Mexico and Canada, spoke here at a news conference after an annual trilateral summit meeting. Responding to a range of questions on domestic and international issues, he also said the United States was committed to the return of the ousted president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya.
Mr. Obama offered a spirited defense of Mexico’s fight against drug traffickers, brushing aside suggestions that some American financial assistance ought to be withheld because of human rights abuses by the army.
Repeating a line used often by President Felipe Calderón of Mexico, Mr. Obama labeled the drug traffickers causing so much violence in both Mexico and the United States as the biggest violators of human rights.
The American aid package for Mexico states that 15 percent of the funds — about $100 million — can be disbursed only if the State Department decides that the Mexican government meets certain human rights conditions. Reports that Mexico’s army has engaged in torture and other abuses while carrying out the drug war have prompted human rights groups and some American lawmakers to oppose releasing those funds.
Clearly pleased by the words of support, Mr. Calderón said his government had worked scrupulously to respect human rights. “We have an absolute, complete commitment to human rights,” he said. “Our fight against the cartels is about the human rights of the Mexican people.”
But...
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I'll bet.
"...after other major priorities were accomplished, including passage of a new health care system."
Pretty optimistic, aren'tcha ducky?
So, he'd prefer that they crash over a long, drawn-out period?
Translation, I don’t want to jeopardize Democrat congress re-election efforts. Vote for Dems if you want amnesty, but don’t hold it against Dems if I haven’t tackled illegal immigration yet...
Message translation: “You right-wing honkies ait seen nuten yet.”
Amnesty wouldn’t work in 2010, because not enough illegals would get ballots in time for the 2010 elections.
File under:
No Sh*t, Sherlock!
Oh sure, we believe him.
“Obama Says Immigration Changes Must Wait Till 2010”
Please wait ‘til we vote you out of office in 2012.
Then you can do whatever your Marxist heart desires.
from today’s presser:
Question from Ginger NYTimes: To President Obama, given the fight that you’re having to wage for health care, I wonder if you can tell us what you think the prospects are for immigration reform, for comprehensive immigration reform, which you’ve said is your goal; and whether you think that the blows you’re taking now on health care and that the Democrats are likely to take around the midterm elections will make it hard, if not impossible, to achieve comprehensive immigration reform in this term — and what you’ve told President Calderón about that?
President Calderón, I’d like to hear a little bit about your thoughts on Honduras. There have been some in Latin America who have said that the United States has not acted strongly enough to return President Zelaya to power. And I wonder if you could talk a little bit about how you feel about what the United States should be doing or could be doing to restore democratic order in Honduras.
And, Prime Minister Harper, a few months ago the Homeland Security Secretary of the United States went to Canada — or at least aggravated Canadian sensibilities when she compared the Canadian border to the Mexican border. And I wonder what you think about that and how you feel about the United States using some of the enforcement strategies adopted on the southern border in the north. Thank you.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: That’s all? (Laughter.)
Q That’s all, Mr. President.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, first of all, Ginger, I don’t know if you’re doing some prognosticating about the outcome of the midterm elections, which are over a year away. I anticipate we’ll do just fine. And I think when all is said on health care reform, the American people are going to be glad that we acted to change an unsustainable system so that more people have coverage, we’re bending the cost curve, and we’re getting insurance reforms so that people don’t get dropped because of preexisting conditions or other issues.
So understand, though, I’m not acting based on short-term political calculations. I’m looking at what’s best for the country long term. If I had been making short-term political calculations, I wouldn’t be standing here as President, because nobody calculated that I could win the presidency.
With respect to immigration reform, I continue to believe that is also in the long-term interests of the United States. We have a broken immigration system. Nobody denies it. And if we continue on a path we’re on, we will continue to have tensions with our Mexican neighbors; we will continue to have people crossing the borders in a way that is dangerous for them, unfair for those who are applying legally to immigrate; we’re going to continue to have employers who are exploiting workers because they’re not within a legal system, and so oftentimes are receiving less than minimum wage, or don’t have overtime, or being abused in other fashion. That’s going to depress U.S. wages. It’s causing ongoing tensions inside the United States. It’s not fair and it’s not right, and we’re going to change it.
Now, I’ve got a lot on my plate, and it’s very important for us to sequence these big initiatives in a way where they don’t all just crash at the same time. And what we’ve said is in the fall when we come back, we’re going to complete health care reform. We still have to act on energy legislation that has passed the House, but the Senate, I’m sure, is going to have its own ideas about how it wants to approach it. We still have financial regulatory reform that has to get done because we don’t want a situation in which irresponsible actions in the global financial markets can precipitate another crisis. That’s a pretty big stack of bills.
Fortunately, what we’ve been able to do is to begin meeting with both Democrats and Republicans from the House and the Senate. Secretary Napolitano is coordinating these discussions, and I would anticipate that before the year is out we will have draft legislation along with sponsors potentially in the House and the Senate who are ready to move this forward, and when we come back next year, that we should be in a position to start acting.
Now, am I going to be able to snap my fingers and get this done? No. This is going to be difficult; it’s going to require bipartisan cooperation. There are going to be demagogues out there who try to suggest that any form of pathway for legalization for those who are already in the United States is unacceptable. And those are fights that I’d have to have if my poll numbers are at 70 or if my poll numbers are at 40. That’s just the nature of the U.S. immigration debate.
But ultimately, I think the American people want fairness. And we can create a system in which you have strong border security, we have an orderly process for people to come in, but we’re also giving an opportunity for those who are already in the United States to be able to achieve a pathway to citizenship so that they don’t have to live in the shadows, and their children and their grandchildren can have a full participation in the United States. So I’m confident we can get it done.
Oh, excuse me — I know this wasn’t directed at me, but I just want to make one quick point on Honduras, because you repeated something that I’ve heard before. The same critics who say that the United States has not intervened enough in Honduras are the same people who say that we’re always intervening, and the Yankees need to get out of Latin America. You can’t have it both ways.
We have been very clear in our belief that President Zelaya was removed from office illegally, that it was a coup, and that he should return. We have cooperated with all the international bodies in sending that message. Now, if these critics think that it’s appropriate for us to suddenly act in ways that in every other context they consider inappropriate, then I think what that indicates is, is that maybe there’s some hypocrisy involved in their approach to U.S.-Latin America relations that certainly is not going to guide my administration policies.
“Obama Says Immigration Changes Must Wait Till 2010”
Please wait ‘til we vote you out of office in 2012.
Then you can do whatever your Marxist heart desires.
We might not have until 2012, if Obama is able to do what he wants to do, we are all screwed. His DeathCare, Amnesty for illegals, he is piece by piece destroying this country
Obama Says Immigration Changes Must Wait Till 2010
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Wise Latina nominations don’t count?
Yeah, right.
By the time ACORN is done with the Census, and all the ACORN vote campaigns/State Run Media propoganda is done, 2012 or ANY election in the next 10 years won't fix what is being destroyed (maybe NEVER until a Revolution)
Translation: I am going to try to sneak this in while you are distracted by health care.
Never trust him. Never.
No , he’s just stupid enough to try to push that through next summer , just in time for elections to be the final nail in Pelosi’s coffin , Maybe Reid too if it’s a really big landslide which is completely possible right now.
Seems as if all energy, healthcare, immigration and climate change legislation is being prepared in anticipation of including ALL of Canada and Mexico, too...now, to just integrate the militaries, the borders and laws, and finances and currency for all three countries with Obamaism as the central driving force (deadly farce)is all that there must be left to do except, of course, the depopulation efforts starting with increased abortions and demise of the elderly prematurely as representing major ‘cost saving’ initiatives of the ‘deathcare’ plan.
“We might not have until 2012, if Obama is able to do what he wants to do, we are all screwed. His DeathCare, Amnesty for illegals, he is piece by piece destroying this country.”
I’m with you on that....it could take 4 decades to undo what these clowns are doing to us right now.
But it took 4 years of Carter to get us Reagan.
Sickening...
What the heck, that’s only a few months away...
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