Posted on 01/18/2017 2:00:16 PM PST by drewh
President Obama said he would regard any effort to round up and deport Dreamers as an attack on American "core values" that would cause him to speak out publicly.
The so-called Dreamers, young people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, "for all practical purposes are American kids," Obama said at what is expected to be the final news conference of his tenure.
"The notion that we would just arbitrarily or because of politics punish those kids, when they didn't do something themselves ... would merit my speaking out," he said.
Obama's administration has protected more than 700,000 such young people from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. Under the terms of that policy, Dreamers are allowed temporarily to live and work legally in the U.S.
President-elect Donald Trump has said that he plans to cancel the DACA program after he takes office on Friday, but he has not said what he would do with the Dreamers. His pick to head the Department of Homeland Security, retired Gen. John Kelly, said last week that he did not know what the administration would decide.
Obama said that he did not plan to comment on most political issues, at least for the next year, saying he wanted to "be quiet a little bit" and "not hear myself talk so darn much."
But, he said, he would make an exception for "certain issues or certain moments where I think our core values may be at stake."
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Who cares.
On Saturday, his opinion will count exactly as much as mine, or any other private citizen. One Vote.
I think that he doesn't understand that after Friday, he's not in charge any more.
he’s so brave. what a man.
Elections have consequences. We won. So Obama’s opinion matters to me about as much as Miley Cyrus’.
Wow. Really Jug Ears. Get in the Long Line. Dumbass.
Welcome to the Party Pal.
He is now working to be the worst past president since Jimmy Carter.
Obama: How we talk to our daughters about Trump’s election
https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-how-we-talk-to-our-daughters-about-trumps-election-212332322.html
And if Obummer does “speak out”, Trump should send FBI agents to the Hawaii birth certificate office and get to the bottom of the skullduggery in that office. Perhaps Barry will have to be shipped out with the “Dreamers” (at long last).
“practical purposes” means “United States Citizens”?
Why is my problem that the Parent’s of these Kids committed a Crime? American Citizens and the Rule of Law are the Victims, not their Kids.
Turn on HGTV, everybody is moving to Mexico and buying Houses. Mexico is America, only cheaper, especially when watching Beachfront Bargain Hunt.
I’m sick of this bastard child telling us what “out values” are.
May we never again elect a person who was rejected by BOTH parents.
Why should Trump care if Obama speaks? Geez...the guy thinks he is some kind of god
So what. I’ll speak out if he doesn’t target illegals.
“out values”
damn. shoulda listened to my eye Dr. about those new glasses.
The former Bastard-in-Chief will speak anyway.
President Obama said he would regard any effort to round up and deport Dreamers as an attack on American “core values” that would cause him to speak out publicly.
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Precedent Obama is an attack on the Constitution as was his unconstitutional action of legalizing illegal aliens which he had no authority to do.
If we had an opposition party they would have sued to stop him like the states did with his second attempt top legalize even more illegal aliens.
Didn’t the WH just tell us few weeks ago that, “we only have one president at a time?” Buck Ofama
“The notion that we would just arbitrarily or because of politics punish those kids, when they didn’t do something themselves ... would merit my speaking out,” he said.
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Their situation is the fault of their parents.
They should return home with their parents.
We wouldn’t want to separate families.
He will draw a red line in the sand.
Nobody gives a fig about anything this idiot has to say.....least of all about border-jumpers sucking up our tax-dollars under multiple identities and killing Americans w/ impunity
What a turd.
Obama Whining is the only reason he rents the Mansion in DC
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