This whining is entertaining but after the election Obama will do his order and these lib whiners will forget about this delay.
This year, Obama promised us action on immigration at the end of spring. Then he promised movement after the summer recess, when federal lawmakers returned to Washington. Now, he promises to take up the issue after the November elections.
Lie to me once, shame on you. Lie to me five times, what do you expect us to do? Obama and the Democrats who supported and encouraged him have little credibility among Latino voters. Obama may have done more to suppress the Latino vote through broken promises than any hostile action taken by the Republicans.
Last weekend, Obama backed off his most recent promise to push immigration reform through executive action to protect vulnerable Senate Democrats who would otherwise come under fire during the upcoming midterms. But by trying to shield those lawmakers, he may have harmed others.
Colorado Sen. Mark Udall, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, Illinois Reps. Brad Schneider and Bill Foster — all Democrats who have kept their promises to the Latino community and consistently supported reform — will face reelection and risk losing if disaffected Latinos refuse to show up at the polls. Between now and the midterms, more than 60,000 Latinos and immigrants will very likely be separated from their loved ones and thousands of U.S. citizen children will be left without a mother or a father before the president acts. Most of these human beings have lived in the United States for more than a decade and do backbreaking work that Americans do not want to do, contributing to and growing industries that Americans cannot do without. All they ask is for a chance to get right with the law, legally enter the workforce and stay together with their families. Obama’s broken promise and delayed action will mean many of them will be deported.
Their suffering and that of their families, friends and children should weigh on the consciences of the president and the Democrats who encouraged Obama to put off — again and again and again and again and again — the push for immigration reform.
As for our own plan of action? It’s hard for me to imagine many of us voting for Republicans, who have at times been downright hostile to immigrant communities. But maybe Latinos in places like Colorado, Florida, Arkansas and North Carolina — states with closely contested Senate or governor’s races — should sit this election out. Maybe only by paying a price at the polls will Democrats finally stop throwing us under the bus.
He broke his promise to break the law to help a particular political group advance their racial politics.
How am I supposed to feel about this?
So, he feels like they have been used like a cheap whore? The Dems have been doing it to blacks for decades...................
The chagrin is strong in this one. That’s too bad.
I’m glad to hear this idiot whine about how “Latinos were there for Obama” but then Obama screwed them over. Good. Any Latino who thinks that building a fence is “stabbing Latinos in the back” and is OK with a dictatorial power grab like “Executive Amnesty”, deserves to be screwed over by their Dear Leader Obama.
If Obama had told the truth about Obamacare, he wouldn't have been re-elected. But he lied through his teeth to us about it, and you were fine with that.
This is all Kabuki to garner sympathy for illegals....
They are fine with waiting a few months in order to get the WHOLE ENCHILADA....
He broke his promise to Latinos? Welcome to the party, amigos.
But, amigos, you should realize, it’s a promise he had no right to make, and if your are angry about it, you are an enemy of the country’s best interests.
Which Latinos? A majority of American Latinos probably don’t care.
Screw Both of You.
We delivered for Obama, with 71 percent of us supporting the president. Only 27 percent favored Mitt Romney
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Ya shoulda voted for Willard...
he woulda given ya AMNESTY right after the swearing in...
Hey Carmen, if there arent enough hispanics, latinos etc in this country to suit your taste I know where you can find countries that are full of them.
Seriously, this tells us more about Velasquez than it does 0bama. Smart lobbyists play both sides of the street - Romney might have delivered more than 0bama did, after all - and stupid ones go tribal and vote Democrat despite the daggers already sticking out of their backs. I have less than zero sympathy. Actually, I think it's funny as hell.
I wish just once I’d hear one of these “Latino activists” say, “Gee, whites are people, too. And Americans and legal immigrants of all races, well, they matter, too. I can understand why they might want their immigration laws enforced. We ARE taking their jobs. And those who work ARE paying to educate our kids, give us food stamps, etc., etc. Maybe we’ve been just a teensy bit selfish in demanding Obama do what WE want, while not considering all the other people with whom we share this country. We demand the right to come here and stay here, yet we don’t care about the rights and wishes of others who were here before us. Maybe we should say ‘thank you’ now and then.”
Yeah, right. When pigs fly.
Why do Latinos here want Latinos there to come here? It will only depress their wages further. Are they that clueless on basic economics?