Posted on 05/04/2016 7:30:57 PM PDT by jazusamo
President Obama on Wednesday took a jab at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trumpover his harsh rhetoric about immigrants.
Speaking at an event honoring Asian-American and Pacific Islander students and leaders, Obama called on them to vote to push back against a “rising tide of bigotry” against immigrants.
“If you doubt what’s at stake, you obviously haven’t been reading the papers,” Obama said at the Asian Pacific American Institute of Congressional Studies gala in Washington.
The president said if Asian-Americans exercise their political power, they can help the country “move beyond today’s anti-immigrant sentiment” just like past generations did.
“We’ve got to push back against anti-immigrant sentiment in all of its forms,” he said. “Especially by those who are trying to stoke it just to seek political gain and just to try to get headlines.”
The president’s line about headline seekers, a clear shot at Trump, drew a raucous ovation from the crowd gathered at the Washington Hilton.
Obama’s comments came one day after Trump won the Indiana primary, becoming the presumptive GOP nominee.
His victory chased his two remaining rivals, Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, out of the race.
The president has become an outspoken critic of Trump, repeatedly bashing his proposals on immigration. Obama is expected to wield an even larger megaphone against Trump when he begins campaigning for the Democratic presidential nominee.
Obama told the Asian-American leaders they have the power to push Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform if they vote in greater numbers, not only in presidential elections, but also in midterms and state and local races.
Trump won over Republican primary voters in part because of his blunt talk about cracking down on illegal immigration. He’s pledged to build a wall along the U.S.’ southern border and have Mexico pay for it. He’s referred to undocumented Latino immigrants as “rapists” and “criminals.”
He also had an awkward moment last October when he asked an American-born student of Korean heritage if he was “from South Korea."
“crisis’”
Uh, no. Crises
Plural-—”crises”
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Trump is going to be looking at going all Gestapo on the traitor HUSSEIN BARAKA and his fellow travelers.
It’s funny that these COMMUNISTS think that they are going to slink off unscathed.
HELL NO!
MARXISTS OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pansy O’s mosquito jabs to Trump will be met with a haymaker that will leave the glib queer toothless and gasping for breath.
Ears apparently does not ken that statements such as these, serve only to harden the will of Trump voters.
You’d almost think he was trying to subconsciously help Trump.
The last time a Democrat President was so concerned about Asian Americans he sent hundreds of thousands of them to internment camps...
But what if Obama retrieves his Indonesian passport from his sealed documents???
Unfortunately, our President does not appear to know the difference between legal immigration and illegal immigration. His failure to note the difference is picked up by the media who magnify such disinformation.
This Democrat tactic will not work anymore.
The liberal media has been calling illegal aliens "undocumented immigrants" for years, trying to blur the line between those who have applied for legal status and those who sneak in across the border.
I fail to see how immigration of any kind helps the average American.
Bring it on Dumbo, don’t let voters forget we have lost control of our borders and sovereignty. Yeah THAT will help the felon a whole lot.
obama thinks he is relevant to ANYTHING....
he is a BAD JOKE PERPETRATED BY THE MEDIA PAID BY SCHWARTZ/SOROS
he is a silly limp wristed idiot child who is worthless
the world laughs and mocks him and he is oblivious... bubble boy in for a rude awakening.... will wind up squeegeeing windows and hustling with the beast ourside the Lincoln tunnel....
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To Obama it’s future rat voters, whom he will dole out to each more than our poor seniors make in a year.
“To Obama it’s future rat voters, whom he will dole out to each more than our poor seniors make in a year.”
I know. It’s disgusting, but I think President Trump will do a lot to correct that travesty.
I certainly hope so, Windflier.
My poor grandfather worked like a dog and paid into SS all his working life. He makes about $16,800 a year back.
If we didn’t help him out, he couldn’t survive.
Yet Obama doles out more than this to each invader.
Makes me furious.
Obama: Americans last!
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