Posted on 11/20/2014 6:48:35 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
President Obama met with more than a dozen prominent civil and immigration rights activists Thursday ahead of his speech debuting a series of new steps that will extend deportation relief and work permits to as many as 5 million illegal immigrants.
Attendees at the meeting included AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, NAACP president Cornell Brooks and Al Sharpton. The MSNBC host has come under fire in recent days after The New York Times reported he and his companies were at one point subject to $4.5 million in state and federal tax liens.
Also in attendance was Janet Murguía, the head of the National Council of La Raza. Murguía made waves earlier this year when she blasted Obama as the “deported in chief” during a speech at her organization’s annual convention, ratcheting up pressure on the president to act.
She struck a different tone Thursday during an appearance on MSNBC following the address.
“I thought it was very compelling, very powerful and very reaffirming,” Murguía said. “For us, this moment is a milestone moment I think for so many. It’s a victory for so many American families who have lived in the shadows with the burden of what that means in this country.”
The meeting also comes as a Missouri grand jury appears poised to reach a decision as early as Friday on whether a white police officer will face criminal charges in the shooting death of an unarmed black Ferguson teenager. Lawmakers and activists have warned that violence could follow the announcement, and Sharpton told the Times that he and Obama had discussed the possibility of unrest earlier this month.
The White House, for its part, said the meeting was to discuss the immigration actions Obama unveiled Thursday night.
“The president thanked the leaders for their dedication to immigration reform and looks forward to working together in the future to fully implement his actions as well as passing commonsense immigration reform,” a White House official said. “The leaders praised the president’s bold and decisive executive actions that will uphold our values as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.”
Lock & load, whitey.
In what way does pissing on the Constitution and the backs of every single LEGAL immigrant does the residents illegal actions uphold a single American value?
The thieves meet to divide the spoils.
Inasmuch as an increasingly popular American value is lostness, it does thus reflect.
I wonder if the low skilled Obama voting blacks realize how badly they are screwed yet?
The NAACP are a bunch of chicken$hit sellouts to blacks.
This is what happens when you Elect Criminals
That ain’t a “huddle”. It’s a commie ‘RAT jercle cirk
Sell-out, sell-out, and sell-out.
The union guy - well, let’s face it, they are just by their very nature easily corrupted - but the “minority leaders” are traitors to the people that they pretend to defend.
I don’t understand why legal, first, second and third generation Latin Americans aren’t up in arms over this. They had to jump through hoops to get here. I am also “ethnically pure”...at least since the ice sheet pulled back...but other than having some genetic commonality with them, my interests lie with America, not them.
Doubt it. So long as a black man rules them, they’re content. Doesn’t matter how evil the man is, just so long as their “own” rules them.
They get exactly what they deserve for supporting this monstrosity. No tears from me.
Sharpton doesn’t care if the voting blacks are “screwed” as long as money is to be made.
Wonder if Zero asked Al when he intends to pay his $ 4 1/2 million dollar back tax bill?
Something big and is going to happen before Jan 21.
The Plan might be to have the inevitable grand jury decision distract black people from “that sucking sound”. That’s why this was done on a Thursday. Tomorrow, the decision. That should be good for a few weeks.
It’s a clever plan, really. Evil, but clever.
“Wonder if Zero asked Al when he intends to pay his $ 4 1/2 million dollar back tax bill?”
Those records were lost on the same hard disk that contained all of that hag’s emails.
Failing to uphold the Constitution and refusing to faithfully execute the laws of the country is a HIGH CRIME and not a “civil right”
Al “the Snitch” Sharpton would sell his Mama if the money were right.
Planning Executive Order on Reperations.
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