Obama says no to immigration without citizenship path

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[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."

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

See related thread which makes the argument that the House bill, if any, should not legalize anybody, not even a legailization-without-citizenship. If the House does not pass any immigration bill at all that is even better IMO. However, the GOP seems determined to pass something.

The Non-Citizenship Trap

[AmericanInTokyo]

House: "BLUE SLIP" THE SONOFABITCH and send it back packing to the Senate where it unconstitutionally came from. Done. Gone. Finished. Time for supper.

[i_robot73]

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.

[Cheerio]

It is all about 30 million undocumented RAT voters - everything else is just a distraction. ENFORCE THE LAWS ON THE BOOKS AND THEN WE CAN TALK ABOUT WHAT TO DO WITH THE LAW BREAKERS.

NO NEW LAWS NEEDED. BUT you can rest assured the stupid party will commit suicide over this because the Won has called upon his propaganda machine to whip up support for handing out citizenship to law breakers.

[donmeaker]

We have a citizenship path now:

The illegal alien returns to their home country where they are citizens.

[Resolute Conservative]

What tradition does he speak of? He is no more American than the people he is trying to slip in under the rug.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Sub-Driver.

"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.