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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Seems to have a soft spot for those who call themselves Americans, but aren’t. Huh. Wonder why that is.
He misspelled illegals.
They can be as practical as they like. They’re still Mexican nationals.
If I that kind of input, I’ll walk into a public restroom and take a big whiff.
Ah, no thanks.
Why didn't he solve the problem during his 8-years as president of the United States?
Obama, micro manages from the brown house!
In less than 43 hours he will be unemployed. That makes me smile.
Will he ever go away, doesn’t he get it that he is no longer wanted?
So, speak out...means nothing...
Because they don't have American Birth Certificates, either................
“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.
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.
If my parents refused to pay income taxes when i was growing up....
Obama would show me no mercy....
Screw him!
“...Who for all practical purposes are American kids”.
All practical purposes, perhaps- but no legal ones.
CC
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.................
>>”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.
The way Liberals carry on, you would think “Mexico” was Spanish for “Auschwitz”.
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!
Depends, if they have a degree and will work in the private sector without a family of 6 on entitlements, maybe some are OK.
Apparently even the Narcissist In Chief gets tired of talking about himself all the time.
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