Posted on 09/28/2011 11:35:15 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama tells Hispanic roundtable he can’t fix immigration alone
By: Julie Mason September 28, 2011 01:36 PM EDT
President Barack Obama showed some frustration Wednesday as he responded to questions about stalled immigration reform, chiding a Hispanic roundtable that “we live in a democracy.”
“This notion that somehow I can just change the laws unilaterally is not true,” Obama told Hispanic journalists at an “Open for Questions” White House roundtable. “The fact of the matter is there are laws on the books I have to enforce. And there is a great disservice done to the cause of getting the DREAM Act passed and comprehensive immigration reform passed by perpetuating the notion that somehow by myself I can just go and do these things.”
Obama’s brief moment of pique highlights his struggle to maintain Hispanic support amid disappointment over his failure to push immigration reform aggressively and the inability of Democratic lawmakers to pass the DREAM Act through Congress. The act would offer a path to citizenship for some young illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children.
Just 48 percent of Hispanics approve of the job Obama is doing, down from 60 percent in January, according to Gallup. Hispanics, meanwhile, comprise potentially decisive voting blocks in key 2012 states including Colorado, Florida, Nevada and New Mexico.
The president on Wednesday sat down with journalists from Yahoo!, MSN Latino and AOL Latino/Huffington Post Latino Voices, who asked questions posed by readers and viewers on topics including unemployment, drug cartels, immigration and education.
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He lives in a Platonic Republic of his own imagining and thinks its a democracy. He’ll never learn and it’s probably fruitless to say so, but this is not a democracy, it is a mixed-government republic.
I so wish it was just mendacity that drives the public discourse so firmly into the ditch and ruins this once-great language.
I wouldn’t trust Barry to fix me a bowl of cereal! The man is useless.....
He sure knows how to build houses of straw...whoever said he could do immigration reform unilaterally??? He’s his own strawman.
Ditto’s to that.That’s all the lying SOB has to do is enforce the damn law.
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language ... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
-Teddy Roosevelt
Why do that when he can sue an entire state for doing just that?
enforce the law, sue states and cities which ignore the law and deport while fining employers.
Really is that simple, so yes he can fix it over night.
I can’t fix it alone...so put on your marching sombreros!
Hispanics know 0bama had 2 years of majority rule in both houses and could have pass just about anything ,, like healthcare and immigration . They got a back seat on 0bama’s 2 year bus tour and now he’s lost his majority in the house . So now the bamster needs them to get re-elected with an almost certain republican majority in both houses in 2012 .
,,,, now that’s what I call a real DREAM ACT !!!
hahahahaha!
“Obama tells Hispanic roundtable he can’t fix immigration alone”
I thought he did, partly.
Defense of Marriage Act (cough, cough)
Ping!
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