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.
At least Carter will go to his grave knowing he wasnt the worst
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