Posted on 07/16/2013 5:19:02 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
July 16th, 2013 07:51 PM ET 5 minutes ago Obama says no to immigration without citizenship path Posted by CNN White House Producer Gabriella Schwarz
Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama said Tuesday an immigration reform bill without a path to citizenship for those in the United States illegally "does not make sense."
"It does not make sense to me, if we're gonna make this once-in-a-generation effort to finally fix the system, to leave the status of 11 million people or so unresolved," Obama said in an interview with a Telemundo-owned TV station in Denver.
Such a plan, he said, would run counter to American values.
"It's not who we are as Americans," Obama said, according to a transcript of the interview. "That's never been our tradition."
The president conducted interviews with four Spanish-language television stations Tuesday as part of the White House's push for immigration. While a comprehensive plan passed in the Senate in June, it has yet to be considered in the House, where leaders have advocated a piecemeal approach to reform of late. But the president warned against tackling the effort in stages, where there could be a "tendency I think to put off the hard stuff until the end."
"If you've eaten your dessert before you've eaten your meal, at least with my children, sometimes they don't end up eating their vegetables," Obama told a Telemundo-owned station in Dallas, according to the transcript. "We need to, I think, do this as a complete package."
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And the GOP/RNC is complacent. They would be emphasizing :
- The promises in the ‘86 bill
- That the border fence is still MIA ($$ went where?)
- Dumbo’s non-enforcement of current Law
But, when you yourself have a hand in the cookie-jar when the lights come on, it’s tough to push the blame.
We have a citizenship path now:
The illegal alien returns to their home country where they are citizens.
What tradition does he speak of? He is no more American than the people he is trying to slip in under the rug.
"It does not make sense to me, if we're gonna make this once-in-a-generation effort to finally fix the system, to leave the status of 11 million people or so unresolved," Obama said in an interview with a Telemundo-owned TV station in Denver.
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