Posted on 06/23/2016 10:54:47 AM PDT by Olog-hai
President Barack Obama sought to reassure millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally that he has no plans to deport them, while acknowledging that the Supreme Court’s deadlock Thursday marks the end of the road for his push to reform the U.S. immigration system.
Though Obama predicted an immigration overhaul is inevitable, he conceded it won’t happen while he’s president due to opposition from the current Congress. Working to lay the groundwork for the next president to pick up the effort, he cast the election in November as a referendum on how the country would treat its immigrants.
“We’re going to have to make a decision about whether we are a people who tolerate the hypocrisy of a system where the workers who pick our fruit or make our beds never have the chance to get right with the law,” Obama said. “Or whether we’re going to give them a chance, just like our forebears had a chance, to take responsibility and give their kids a better future.” …
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Boy, do I agree!! The Democrat Party is responsible for everything, and I MEAN EVERYTHING going wrong in this country. Americans are world class, the best, and America without a doubt, solidly the finest country in the world. We have our problems, and we can, and usually do, solve them. We will do so now. We have had enough of this Obama Presidency to last forever, for most, and for a long time for others. All Americans need to know the Constitution is where our questions are answered.
Working to lay the groundwork for the next president to pick up the effort, he cast the election in November as a referendum on how the country would treat its immigrants.
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Treat them like taxpayers when it comes time to pay up.
What difference does it make if he just continues to ignore the law and directs the Border Patrol to release them.
He should focus on LEGAL IMMIGRATION NOT ILLEGAL
Maybe someone should remind him of a place that not long ago the American people refurbished in New York Harbor to honor all the Legal immigrants who came through,they were checked for among other things,diseases,it is called Ellis Island.
Those folks came here to be Americans not subversives
Nah, when he’s dead & 6 feet under ...
Nilbama always starts his horse hockey with a phony straw man argument or false dichotomy: “We’re going to have to choose between (X malarkey) and (Y bushwa).”
No, we’re not. We reject the premise of your argument.
“Working to lay the groundwork for the next president to pick up the effort, he cast the election in November as a referendum on how the country would treat its immigrants. “
I believe that they spelled “intended Democrat voter registration fraud” incorrectly there.
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