Posted on 11/23/2014 4:28:02 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
* Obama made the remarks during an interview with This Week host George Stephanopolous that was broadcast Sunday
* 'We are not even close to being able to deal with the folks who have been here a long time,' he said
* 'It is a stunning and sad display of a president declining to honor his constitutional obligation,' GOP Sen. Ted Cruz said in response
* The president declined to if he was worried about outbursts of violence in Ferguson if police officer Darren Wilson is not indicted
* He also wouldn't endorse Hillary Clinton for president but said she'd be 'a great president' and gave her his blessing to depart from his positions
* Americans 'want that new car smell,' he said. 'They want to drive something off the lot that doesn't have as much mileage as me'
President Barack Obama brushed off complaints levied by the GOP that his immigration actions are illegal in an ABC News interview that aired today, saying that the U.S. has 'limited resources' and it only makes sense for the government to prioritize the removal of 'felons, criminals and recent arrivals' over longtime residents and families.
'Everybody knows, including Republicans, that we're not going to deport 11 million people,' Obama told George Stephanopolous during a Friday interview for his Sunday morning program This Week.
'The reason that we have to do prosecutorial discretion in immigration is that we know that we are not even close to being able to deal with the folks who have been here a long time,' he said.
In the extended interview Obama and Stephanoplous also discussed the grand jury investigation into Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson and the 2016 presidential race....
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So if 300 million of us refuse to pay our taxes next year you will leave us alone? Cool
Now there’s a plan.
Not if we won’t even try.
Obama is full of it.
He says you can’t deport 11 million illegals, but if he could get away with it, he would try to round up 300 million firearms.
> We have been severely-betrayed by our so-called leaders and representatives.
And we should make a scorecard of those who betrayed us and return the favor with prejudice when the time comes. They need to know we will not forget and that there will be consequences.
No, you need to deport 40 million.
It can be done. Take away their ability to rent houses, own homes, work, collect welfare, and the anchor baby loophole and we would not need to deport them. They will self deport leaving behind a lot of jobs needed by American citizens.
So simple even a politician can do it.
Why not?
I think it's perfectly possible, and working, net-taxpayers would overwhelmingly support the expense.
Take it out of the 300+ welfare programs and Medicaid.
I'd chip in $100 a month for however long it takes.
During the 1950s, however, this "Good Old Boy" system changed under Eisenhower - if only for about 10 years.
In 1954, Ike appointed retired Gen. Joseph "Jumpin' Joe" Swing, a former West Point classmate and veteran of the 101st Airborne, as the new INS commissioner.
Influential politicians, including Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D) of Texas and Sen. Pat McCarran (D) of Nevada, favored open borders, and were dead set against strong border enforcement, Brownell said. But General Swing's close connections to the president shielded him - and the Border Patrol - from meddling by powerful political and corporate interests.
One of Swing's first decisive acts was to transfer certain entrenched immigration officials out of the border area to other regions of the country where their political connections with people such as Senator Johnson would have no effect.
Then on June 17, 1954, what was called "Operation Wetback" began. Because political resistance was lower in California and Arizona, the roundup of aliens began there. Some 750 agents swept northward through agricultural areas with a goal of 1,000 apprehensions a day.
By the end of July, over 50,000 aliens were caught in the two states. Another 488,000, fearing arrest, had fled the country.
By mid-July, the crackdown extended northward into Utah, Nevada, and Idaho, and eastward to Texas.
By September, 80,000 had been taken into custody in Texas, and an estimated 500,000 to 700,000 illegals had left the Lone Star State voluntarily.
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Why not?
We can begin by deporting the illegals from California and Texas. That should be less than 11,000,000.
Then we could do the same for Southern states Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Again, why can't we deport 11,000,000 illegals? If we start small and deport a little bit here and a little bit there, we should be able to do it.
Precisely.
Along with a nice multi-level jobs program: identify and round up the trespassers, report the companies employing them, ship the trespassers back, give their jobs to legal workers, significantly increase the border guard, and build the complete fence.
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