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Obama told Trump NOT to deport 'dreamers' – illegals who were brought here as children
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 1/4/17 | Geoff Earle

Posted on 01/04/2017 5:29:50 PM PST by ColdOne

President Obama has made an emotional pitch to President-elect Donald Trump not to reverse his executive actions that have shielded immigrants brought here illegally as children from deportation.

He told Democrats in a closed door meeting he felt strongly about the issue in personal terms, and apparently has made a similar appeal to his successor.

The issue is politically fraught and was central to Democratic appeals to Hispanic voters in their opposition to Trump's election.

'He said ... he felt very strongly about this and he understood former presidents are supposed to step back from the field, but he said this one means so much to him personally that he would not step away from the responsibility of saying something if necessary,' Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois told NBC.

Durbin said he asked Obama about the issue during a caucus meeting where Democrats strategized about how to protect Obamacare from Republican repeal.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bho44; dreamers; illegals; trumptransition
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
“Obama: ‘This is going to be a browner country’ “

And that's been one of Obama's primary goals since he took office. And if they are also Moslem, that's just several times better.

61 posted on 01/04/2017 8:09:36 PM PST by Will88
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Here are two more items that receive very little air time.
1. No more anchor baby program.
2. Get rid of dual citizenship.


62 posted on 01/04/2017 8:18:13 PM PST by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its egg roll.)
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To: ridesthemiles

I would like to see the practice ended but with a change in the law it is almost a sure thing that those already “anchored” will be allowed to be citizens and, of course, socialists. You left out the “anonymously.” That is the important part. The society does need more children but only if they are raised as Americans. There should be no possibility of allowing wetback parents to stay with their citizen children. There is no reason that Guatemalan parents cannot take their “American” children with them when they go. Or they can leave them without hope of locating them and using them as magnets.


63 posted on 01/04/2017 8:22:54 PM PST by arthurus
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To: ColdOne

BURN THEIR IMMIGRATION PAPERS! Deport them immediately after January 20!


64 posted on 01/04/2017 9:08:04 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Trump won; I celebrated; I'm good. Let's get on with the civil war now.)
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To: ColdOne

I have much sympathy for the “dreamers”.
My kids had school friends who came as babies and have known no other home. In some cases they had younger siblings born here who are thus citizens.

The priority should be the clear-cut cases of deporting criminals and enforcing existing border law.


65 posted on 01/04/2017 11:19:41 PM PST by 1066AD
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To: ameribbean expat

Two words. Elian. Gonzales

Bill Clinton will burn in Hell for what he did to Elian Gonzales.


66 posted on 01/05/2017 2:45:16 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: ColdOne
he felt very strongly about this and he understood former presidents are supposed to step back from the field, but

But me no buts, and get the hell out of town.

67 posted on 01/05/2017 3:33:26 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: dandiegirl

Agree. That would be very c/w Trump. He will also do this with the Klintoon foundation.


68 posted on 01/05/2017 4:53:05 AM PST by grumpygresh (We don't have Democrats and Republicans, we have the Faustian uni-party)
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To: proust

He told Time, we will work something out... regarding dreamers., how is that not amnesty? I can’t decide whether he has been negotiating with GOP since his 2000 campaign or whether he is a billionaire NY lib. I guess there aren’t many differences. He is stimulus, jobs created or saved(using taxpayer money).. he might build a wall.. but he believes govt has a role in healthcare. He sounds a lot more like Obama or Jeb. I didn’t trust him in 2000 and I can now see why I was right them. He certainly isn’t a Constitutional conservative, because that means you can’t run a country like a business by acting unilaterally.


69 posted on 01/05/2017 5:37:10 AM PST by momincombatboots (Pray for Sky, 20, two gunshots to abdomen, college student, hostess, easy prey n transformed US)
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To: ColdOne

Just follow the law!


70 posted on 01/05/2017 7:40:06 AM PST by jch10 (President Trump, President Trump, President Trump! I just love saying that!)
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To: Rebelbase

We agree, it seems, that the parents should have thought about that in the first place. Deport those who are here illegally. Encourage them to take their American born kids with them.


71 posted on 01/05/2017 6:06:52 PM PST by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: TheNext; A CA Guy
Not to mention, THEY ARE ILLEGAL!!!
72 posted on 01/06/2017 11:29:37 AM PST by houeto
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