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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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To: drewh

F*ck the Big Eared One!


61 posted on 01/18/2017 3:43:10 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: drewh

Why does he have such a low opinion of Mexico?

It’s kind of like the way Hollywood libs always promise to move to Canada. Ever notice they never promise to move to Mexico?

What do libs have against Mexico? Racist much?


62 posted on 01/18/2017 3:48:59 PM PST by AC86UT89
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To: drewh

63 posted on 01/18/2017 3:59:43 PM PST by Proyecto Anonimo
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To: drewh
Scumbag alert!

Two days and counting...

64 posted on 01/18/2017 4:00:00 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: drewh

Enforcing the people’s laws, passed by their representatives, is not “targeting” anybody.


65 posted on 01/18/2017 4:04:11 PM PST by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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To: drewh
"for all practical purposes are American kids,"
For all legal purposes they're illegal aliens.
66 posted on 01/18/2017 4:04:24 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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To: drewh
Dreamer.
67 posted on 01/18/2017 4:13:02 PM PST by Proyecto Anonimo
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To: drewh

Obama will never shut up. He’ll be on the news more when he’s out of power than we do now.


68 posted on 01/18/2017 4:23:51 PM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: drewh

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

uh, but otherwise, obama, you keep quiet, right? ROTFLOL!


69 posted on 01/18/2017 5:00:35 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: drewh

Obama doesn’t know squat about our core values.


70 posted on 01/18/2017 5:27:55 PM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: drewh

Calling illegal invaders “Dreamers” is akin to calling rapists “Lovers.”


71 posted on 01/18/2017 6:17:46 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Well done

That has tagline material right there...

Do you mind if I use that?


72 posted on 01/18/2017 6:23:48 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Ouderkirk

I’m an Open Source Poster. Mi Comment es su Comment. LOL


73 posted on 01/18/2017 6:26:13 PM PST by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: drewh

I hope to hear Obama “speaking out” soon. The yapping of that obnoxious poodle, as he watches his pet criminals finally get deported, would be music to my ears.


74 posted on 01/18/2017 6:43:21 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: drewh
"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.

Keep talking all the way to prison, Obama--you can't pardon yourself for crimes committed after January 20.

75 posted on 01/18/2017 7:13:47 PM PST by Fedora
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To: saintgermaine

0vomti will speak out if the sun rises in the east. He is in love with the sound of his own stuttering, stammering voice. He will be a thorn in the side of Trump for the next 8 years.

Unless he is indicted and imprisoned.


76 posted on 01/18/2017 7:24:53 PM PST by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: donna

I’m starting to see reports of his failures in the last 8 years. Even Front Line did a piece on it.


77 posted on 01/18/2017 9:02:11 PM PST by Terry Mross (I'm trying to be more tolerant of everyone. Including ignorant people.)
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To: drewh

Didn’t Obama get financial aids based on him being a Dreamer, er, foreign student. Unfortunately, his visa has been lost, so no way to prove he overstayed.


78 posted on 01/18/2017 9:26:23 PM PST by bIlluminati (Balance the budget. Defund the Left!)
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