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    Obama Pushes Congress To Make DREAM Act Priority in 2012

    foxnews.com/latino
    Published February 23, 2012
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    Sept. 26: College student Jasmine Oliver, of Warwick, R.I., top left, and Javier Gonzalez, of Pawtucket, R.I., top right, display a banner and shout their support for allowing undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition rates while attending public colleges in the state, during a Board of Governors of Higher Education meeting on the campus of the Community College of Rhode Island, in Warwick, R.I.

    President Barack Obama said Congress should take one step toward overhauling the country's immigration system by passing the DREAM Act, a bill that would provide a path to citizenship for some children of undocumented migrants.

    In an interview with Oakland, California-based Radio Bilingue that was rebroadcast Wednesday via Internet, Obama said his administration prioritizes the deportation of undocumented immigrants with criminal records and tries to avoid separating families.

    The president said his administration is doing all it can to make the immigration system more humane, but that the most important priority is to fix the country's immigration laws.

    He noted that during his State of the Union address last month he urged lawmakers to approve the DREAM Act, which passed the House of Representatives in December 2010 but has stalled in the Senate.

    That bill would offer permanent residence to undocumented high school graduates who enlist in the U.S. Armed Forces or attend college.

    Obama said that legislation should be a priority this year, although he lamented that hard-line Republicans were refusing to work in a bipartisan fashion on the issue.

    According to the president, it is important that Congress listen to the Hispanic community and other communities affected by the country's broken immigration system.

    An estimated 5,000 U.S. children whose parents have been deported or detained because of their immigration status have been placed in state foster care nationwide, according to an investigation made public late last year by the Applied Research Center.

    Obama has acknowledged that his administration's enforcement policies have caused the break-up of families in some instances and pledged to ensure that children are not separated from their parents without due process.

    The president, who will seek re-election in November, supports a "comprehensive" immigration overhaul that would strengthen border security while simultaneously putting many of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States on a path to citizenship.

    By contrast, most of the candidates vying for the Republican presidential nomination, who on Wednesday squared off in a debate in Arizona, oppose such a plan because they say it would provide amnesty for lawbreakers.

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    Apparently, Obama and friends didn't hear us the first time, the second time, etc, that Americans said "NO!!!!" Still pushing undocumented Hispanic voters act.

    The nightmare to come would be a second term for Obama when he would feel no pressures of re-election to do anything he wants that he deems "can't wait."
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    I don't think it should even be discussed until 2014. The economy and the unrest in the Middle East should take priority, not the legalizing of a voting block for the current administration.
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