Posted on 04/28/2010 6:10:05 PM PDT by tobyhill
President Obama on Wednesday dismissed Arizona's tough new anti-immigration law as a "shortcut'' that will merely inflame the immigration debate "instead of solving the problem.''
In an impromptu session in the back of his plane with reporters, Obama described the Arizona law as a product of "people's frustrations about the border.''
Though the president sympathized in part, saying we now have "hundreds of thousands of people coming in'' who are "not playing by the rules,'' he said Arizona has chosen the wrong approach.
The law, signed last week by Gov. Jan Brewer, makes it a state crime to be in Arizona illegally and requires police to check suspects for immigration paperwork. It also bars people from soliciting work or hiring day laborers off the street.
"What I think is a mistake is when we start having local law enforcement officials empowered to stop people on the suspicion that they may be undocumented workers '' the president said. Such hard-line remedies are an affront to the nation's values, he said.
Asked if his Administration might try to mitigate the Arizona law in some way, Obama said: "We're examining it now.''
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It will be interesting to see what happens to border jumpers who are handed over to ICE.
So you’ve decided to re-write the story?
I want to see him go after Texas too! GL
He’ll staw away from Dallas, for sure.
“He said its all Republicans fault for not passing amnesty.”
Not for lack of trying. I can think of more than a few Republicans who tried forcing amnesty on us.
But as Peter Schiff said over a year ago. Republicans out of power ACT like republicans talk during elections, against all the bad things, as now.
Republicans in power act like Democrats
I think it's pretty obvious that they aren't enforcing the law. Isn't Obama’s aunt, who is a illegal alien, still mooching off taxpayers over there in Boston? If he was enforcing the law then she would have been gone 2 years ago.
Has everybody forgotten what just recently happened in New York City? Had it NOT BEEN FOR NYPD, Zazi would still be on the loose. And WHO was it that got downright upset at NYPD for stopping a terrorist act ALREADY IN MOTION? The feds. And why didn’t the feds act when they should have?
MUSLIMS. And how many MUSLIMS are streaming in here every damn day? ILLEGALLY and running their drugs to finance terrorist activity here and elsewhere that the feds won’t stop? Some of them getting OUR tax money?
It’s crap. The worst sort of crap. Not to mention treason.
ping to post #42
My bad. Post #47
Did any of the press lickspittles in the back of the plane happen to ask WHY the Obambi regime REFUSES to provide real border security?
That might have been amusing.
As for the states exerting their sovereignty and providing security for their own people ... that is EXACTLY that the states are supposed to do. Keep it up.
Truer words were never spoken.
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