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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F*ck the Big Eared One!
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?
Two days and counting...
Enforcing the people’s laws, passed by their representatives, is not “targeting” anybody.
Obama will never shut up. He’ll be on the news more when he’s out of power than we do now.
“Obama Says He Would Speak Out If Trump Targets ‘Dreamers’”
uh, but otherwise, obama, you keep quiet, right? ROTFLOL!
Obama doesn’t know squat about our core values.
Calling illegal invaders “Dreamers” is akin to calling rapists “Lovers.”
Well done
That has tagline material right there...
Do you mind if I use that?
I’m an Open Source Poster. Mi Comment es su Comment. LOL
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.
Keep talking all the way to prison, Obama--you can't pardon yourself for crimes committed after January 20.
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.
I’m starting to see reports of his failures in the last 8 years. Even Front Line did a piece on it.
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.
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