Thread: Obama Rips Alabama Immigration Law

Obama Rips Alabama Immigration Law

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Reported by: CBS 42 News
Published: 11/11 5:28 pm

President Obama speaks out on Alabama's tough immigration for the first time since it went into effect last month. He called it a bad law. The interview was printed in La Opinion, the nation's largest Spanish-language daily newspaper. The president went on to say the law is already having an impact on school districts.


"The idea that we have children afraid to go to school because they feel afraid that their immigration status will lead to being detained...It's wrong."

The president slammed the law further pointing out the ability of law enforcement to stop people in the streets and check their citizenship status.

"All this makes the law not just anti-immigrant, but I believe it doesn't match our essential values as a country."

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Hey, Obama, remember when you took the oath of office and promised to protect our wonderful country against all invaders. Well, these people are invaders and you owe us, the citizens, protection from this massive invasion.

The president slammed the law further pointing out the ability of law enforcement to stop people in the streets and check their citizenship status.

Hasn't this been proven to be an out right lie?

President Obama critical of Alabama immigration law, Spanish-language newspaper reports

Updated: Friday, November 11, 2011, 6:51 PM

President Barack Obama has used an interview with a US Spanish-language newspaper to say he thinks Alabama's new immigration law is bad law, the newspaper La Opinion reports.

The president cited reports of children afraid to attend classes and church workers potentially facing arrest, according to La Opinion. "All this makes the law, not just anti-immigrant, but I believe it doesn't match our essential values as a country," the newspaper quoted Obama as saying according to a translation provided by the immigration group Americasvoiceonline.

Obama's comments in the interview brought him censure from an Alabama politician Friday. The Montgomery Advertiser reported that House Speaker Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn, rapped the president's remarks, saying the state's law was an attempt to correct the failures of federal law.

He also was critical of the president making the comments in a Spanish-language newspaper, according to the newspaper.

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