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Obama Says He Would Speak Out If Trump Targets 'Dreamers'
Los Angeles Times ^ | JAN. 18, 2017, 12:01 P.M. | David Lauter and Christi Parsons

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; obama
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1 posted on 01/18/2017 2:00:16 PM PST by drewh
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To: drewh

Seems to have a soft spot for those who call themselves Americans, but aren’t. Huh. Wonder why that is.


2 posted on 01/18/2017 2:01:28 PM PST by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: drewh

He misspelled illegals.

They can be as practical as they like. They’re still Mexican nationals.


3 posted on 01/18/2017 2:02:11 PM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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To: drewh

If I that kind of input, I’ll walk into a public restroom and take a big whiff.

Ah, no thanks.


4 posted on 01/18/2017 2:04:01 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Obama, Clinton, McStain, and Graham, with people like this, who needs enemies?)
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To: drewh
Obama speak out? Too little too late.

Why didn't he solve the problem during his 8-years as president of the United States?

5 posted on 01/18/2017 2:04:13 PM PST by donna ('God's standards, like it or not, are the basis for the laws that led to western civilization.)
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To: drewh

Obama, micro manages from the brown house!


6 posted on 01/18/2017 2:04:40 PM PST by agincourt1415 (Obama GONE!)
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To: relictele

In less than 43 hours he will be unemployed. That makes me smile.


7 posted on 01/18/2017 2:04:57 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: relictele

Will he ever go away, doesn’t he get it that he is no longer wanted?


8 posted on 01/18/2017 2:05:09 PM PST by saintgermaine (The Time Traveler)
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So, speak out...means nothing...


9 posted on 01/18/2017 2:05:15 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: workerbee
Seems to have a soft spot for those who call themselves Americans, but aren’t. Huh. Wonder why that is.

Because they don't have American Birth Certificates, either................

10 posted on 01/18/2017 2:05:17 PM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?............)
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To: drewh

“Obama Says He Would Speak Out If Trump Targets ‘Dreamers’”

YAWN.

Trump will publicly b*tch-slap the Fraud as usual if he “speaks out” against Trump.


11 posted on 01/18/2017 2:05:23 PM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: drewh

Why is this news? He is entitled to his opinion, just like everyone else. And it matters just as much as every other private citizen. I couldn’t care less if he opens his pie-hole seven times a day or not at all. “I’m going to speak out!!”

Yeah, and so is my German Shepherd. Blah, blah, blah.


12 posted on 01/18/2017 2:05:23 PM PST by VideoPaul
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To: drewh

If my parents refused to pay income taxes when i was growing up....

Obama would show me no mercy....

Screw him!


13 posted on 01/18/2017 2:05:45 PM PST by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: drewh

“...Who for all practical purposes are American kids”.

All practical purposes, perhaps- but no legal ones.

CC


14 posted on 01/18/2017 2:06:03 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: saintgermaine

Bill Clinton did the same thing.................It takes a while for Dems to figure out that nobody cares what they think after they have no power.................


15 posted on 01/18/2017 2:06:24 PM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?............)
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To: drewh

>>”for all practical purposes are American kids,”

American kids don’t wave the Mexican flag, shouting Aztlan slogans.

Besides, Mexico is “America” too. They can be Americans there.


16 posted on 01/18/2017 2:06:49 PM PST by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: drewh

The way Liberals carry on, you would think “Mexico” was Spanish for “Auschwitz”.


17 posted on 01/18/2017 2:07:15 PM PST by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: drewh

I really despise OBambie...He is going to be nothing but trouble. He already has an army of nut-jobs at his fingertips...What garbage he is!


18 posted on 01/18/2017 2:07:44 PM PST by virginia9000
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To: drewh

Depends, if they have a degree and will work in the private sector without a family of 6 on entitlements, maybe some are OK.


19 posted on 01/18/2017 2:07:47 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: drewh
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."

Apparently even the Narcissist In Chief gets tired of talking about himself all the time.

20 posted on 01/18/2017 2:07:47 PM PST by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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