Posted on 10/09/2015 6:06:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“There’s nowhere they want to go further backwards than on immigration”, said the president, who noted his administration’s progress on reducing the Latino unemployment rate and providing more health care to the minority group.
Obama is using the speech to highlight differences with several of the Republican presidential candidates on the issue. Like Rubio, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has said he does not support a path to citizenship, and stirred controversy for using the term “anchor babies”.
Thats not leadership, turning against whats right the moment the politics of your base gets tough.
President Barack Obama promised Hispanic leaders on Thursday he’ll continue to champion a comprehensive change to the nation’s immigration laws and said America’s greatness comes from building opportunities, not walls.
Leadership is not fanning the flames of intolerance and acting all surprised when a fire breaks out.
“We’re going to help more husbands and wives of American citizens get their green cards without separating them from their families”, he said. “Saying clearly inflammatory things and then saying, ‘Well, that’s not what I meant, ‘ until you do it again, and again, and again”.
Clinton’s invoking of Trump at a Washington event hosted by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus elicited loud boos from the audience.
With immigration a major issue in the Republican presidential race, Obama referred at one point to GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump and his call for a wall along the entire U.S.-Mexican border.
A statement from United We Dream following the incident said that the group was protesting Clinton taking campaign donations from private prisons, adding that half of detained immigrants are placed in private prisons.
“Think how much better our economy would be if the rest of his party got the message”, Obama told about 2,000 people during an awards dinner for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, which seeks to open the halls of Congress to more Latinos.
A few Republican presidential hopefuls, including Trump and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, say they want to revoke so-called “birthright citizenship”, which automatically grants citizenship to anyone born in the USA, including the children of undocumented immigrants.
“We need people who will stand up to this ugly rhetoric and extreme thinking, who will say with our words and our actions, basta, enough”, Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton said.
Liberals are terrified that someone would get in the presidency who would actually enforce our immigration laws and undo 25 years of loading the country with millions of illegal alien freeloaders.
Zer0 is so confused. Americans are not angry about legal immigration. It is illegal border crossers that is the problem. And, their lawlessness at crossing our border illegally does not stop at the border. They also break other laws with illegal drug trafficking, prostitution, rape, murder, bank robbery and vehicular manslaughter. If we want to keep from being called bigots by the Zer0 Regime, we should also look away from all the other laws they break.
I am, and have been a NATIVIST, for over 50 years, and I see no sense in changing, due to the midnight one-handed-jack dreams of a Communist mulatto queer, that was NOT born in the Continental 48.
I'm more concerned that the voters, who twice a domestic enemy as president, are still here and will vote again.
The left (DNC/RNC included) are stealing the country from the citizens and using fraudulently documented foreigners to do it.
Once they have electoral supremacy, it’s all over.
No, 0dinga, it’s ‘ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT’ you dumbchit. Too bad we don’t have a president who CONDEMNS illegal activity.
Um, he does know he’s not running right? So what’s with the campaign speeches.
Idiot prez, warning people about going backwards while his immigration moving forward walks the nation off the plank.
How ‘bout Obama’s anti-Christian bigotry? You mean he still doesn’t understand why we don’t want the ISIS soldiers in our country after they’ve beheaded, raped, and stoned people or why I don’t want to pay higher taxes while they pay none, take our jobs, overcrowd us, bankrupt us, etc...?
What??! Is he stupid?
I stand up against Obama’s bigoted destruction of the American way of life etc.
Sorry Barry. We know that people like you from little sewer countries don’t mind being invaded. We Americans AREN’T like that.
And burn in the same place.
FUBO
You too do not come from an appropriate values background and those of us who truly understand your nature and the vacuum of values it represents absolutely, totally despise you. So, arrest me. I really don't care anymore. The ONLY honorable thing left for you to do is resign.
Let me tell you something you representative of Satan, I mean every word I have EVER typed in this forum and the ones the mods saw fit to delete. I have no apologies for anything said and lay my head on the block. Send your brainwashed goons to talk to me. You are becoming more and more UNWORTHY of any response to the Godless drivel that comes out of your mouth.
IMMIGRANTS CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING!!
Spread the word.
The Presidents tribe is not of this nation. He has no fidelity to us, so there’s no reason for us to have any to him. The fact that he’s a megalomaniac bastard is merely a collateral issue.
He thinks he’s the godfather. Just call him Obama Corleone.
They’re not “immigrants.” They’re invaders. Criminals. Illegals. Immigrants obey laws. Enforcing a country’s laws doesn’t make one a bigot or a xenophobe.
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