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Obama’s speech on immigration
The Constitution Club ^ | 07-01-10 | Anthony Rogers

Posted on 07/01/2010 9:40:12 PM PDT by TheConservativeCitizen

Obama just gave a speech on immigration. I was told it was coming. He had totally lost the leadership role on the issue and needed to get it back. So, expect a speech. Well, we just got it. He spoke at length on the merits of legal immigrants. People who moved to the US and made the US a better place, their lives better, and the entire world. He spoke of the huddled masses who work their fingers to the bone 20 hours every day so their poor but honest children can have a better life. He spoke of the horrible people trying to take all that away.

What he never mentioned was the drug trafficking, the human trafficking, the murders, the violence, and other stuff that’s gotten so bad his own Homeland Security people decided to put up signs:

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: aliens; democrats; illegalimmigration; illegals; immigration; impeachobama; obama; usborders

1 posted on 07/01/2010 9:40:17 PM PDT by TheConservativeCitizen
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To: TheConservativeCitizen
He spoke of the horrible people trying to take all that away.

It is essentially the Obama administration.

2 posted on 07/01/2010 9:43:54 PM PDT by oyez (The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has it limits.)
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To: TheConservativeCitizen
He had totally lost the leadership role on the issue and needed to get it back.

If that was the function of the speech it was an epic failure of Biblical proportions because Obama admitted he couldn't enforce the border...not exactly what one wants to hear from the person tasked with protecting our nation.

3 posted on 07/01/2010 9:45:52 PM PDT by highlander_UW (Education is too important to leave in the hands of the government.)
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To: TheConservativeCitizen

From Obama’s speech today

That’s why businesses must be held accountable if they break the law by deliberately hiring and exploiting undocumented workers. We’ve already begun to step up enforcement against the worst workplace offenders. And we’re implementing and improving a system to give employers a reliable way to verify that their employees are here legally. But we need to do more. We cannot continue just to look the other way as a significant portion of our economy operates outside the law. It breeds abuse and bad practices. It punishes employers who act responsibly and undercuts American workers. And ultimately, if the demand for undocumented workers falls, the incentive for people to come here illegally will decline as well.

From Arizona’s SB 1070

A. An employer shall not knowingly employ an unauthorized alien. If, in the case when an employer uses a contract, subcontract or other independent contractor agreement to obtain the labor of an alien in this state, the employer knowingly contracts with an unauthorized alien or with a person who employs or contracts with an unauthorized alien to perform the labor, the employer violates this subsection


4 posted on 07/01/2010 9:48:48 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: TheConservativeCitizen

"the border is more secure now than it has been in 20 years, .."
5 posted on 07/01/2010 9:49:21 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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worse than Jimmy Carter


6 posted on 07/01/2010 10:01:54 PM PDT by screaming eagle2 (no matter what you call it...a pre-owned vehicle IS STILL A USED CAR!)
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To: TheConservativeCitizen

worse than Jimmy Carter


7 posted on 07/01/2010 10:01:57 PM PDT by screaming eagle2 (no matter what you call it...a pre-owned vehicle IS STILL A USED CAR!)
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To: artichokegrower

Great juxtaposition!! Brilliant.


8 posted on 07/01/2010 10:08:11 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: TheConservativeCitizen
How about this. We have imported 40-70 million people in the last 44 years. We have over 10% unemployment, perhaps double that with underemployed. We don't need 12-30 million illegals and we don't need 1,000,000 legal immigrants for year. Get rid of the criminals and reduce legal immigration to 300,000 per year. We shouldn't even be talking about amnesty, because we must remember our heritage, culture and future. We should not debate amnesty, we should debate the proper means to AMERICANIZE the millions of legal immigrants who are here. We should debate whether we as a nation can survive if we do not change our trajectory. We have a president, though descended on his mother's side from colonists who came before the nation existed, does not see himself as one of us and who has defined himself in opposition to us.

We are not a locale. Your heritage and location and means of birth matter. We are a people, not an interchangeable collection or consumers. We have distinct heritage, polity, and culture and if you don't like it, get the hell out. And I mean illegals, the President, and half of congress too.

9 posted on 07/01/2010 11:38:41 PM PDT by rmlew (There is no such thing as a Blue Dog Democrat; just a liberals who lies.)
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CNS NEWS.com: "OBAMA: U.S. BORDERS CANNOT BE SECURED WITH FENCES AND BORDER PATROLS" by Edwin Mora (SNIPPET: "Obama made the statement in a speech at American University in Washington, D.C. in which he called on Congress to enact a "comprehensive immigration reform" law that would include a "pathway for legal status" for illegal immigrants - or what critics call amnesty.") (Note: Video included.) (June 1, 2010) (Read More...)

10 posted on 07/02/2010 3:01:34 AM PDT by Cindy
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Obama is one sick puppy.

Better off that he and his ENTIRE ENTOURAGE were all GONE. Out of Office. Not a day too soon.

11 posted on 07/02/2010 3:07:56 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Enemy sighted. Fix electoral bayonets. Powder dry. On my command. Ready. CHARGE! (2010 is upon us))
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To: artichokegrower

ping


12 posted on 07/02/2010 5:46:18 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (drain the swamp! ( then napalm it and pave it over ))
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