Thread: Obama to Latinos: Press GOP on immigration

Obama to Latinos: Press GOP on immigration
August 12, 2011
Josh Gerstein

President Barack Obama is urging Latino voters to spend less time pressing him to ease the enforcement of immigration laws and more time pressing Republican lawmakers to get behind immigration reform legislation.

"The problem right now is not on the Democratic side....Everybody for some reason is letting the Republican Party off the hook on this issue, either by hoping that I can take a unilateral action or that somehow Democrats can change the way Congress works," Obama said during a roundtable Monday with journalists for American Spanish-language newspapers. "The fact is, is if Latinos all across the country said, 'Until the Republican Party is willing to cooperate on bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform, we can’t support the Republican Party,â€

"We’re going to keep on trying to improve our administrative functions so that we’re minimizing the separation of families, so that people who are basically decent hardworking people don't get caught up in the system..."

Those decent illegals have stolen identities and use false documents or over stay visas or whatever other decietful thing they do.

Those hard working people are replacing hardworking citizens by stealing their jobs.

No need to seperate families, deport them all together.

Problems solved.

Originally Posted by Kiara

No need to seperate families, deport them all together.

Problems solved.

The whole system from the Obama administration to the whole immigration system, judges, courts.. The whole system needs a huge treatment of RID X. Because it is FULL OF @%#& and has been STINKING up the U.S.A for far to long!

During secret meeting, Obama to Latinos: I can't help you
August 13, 2011

President Obama, obviously knowing the topic of immigration is readioactive, had an unannounced meeting with Latino journalists where he said that "isn't where the energy is" - and told them to press the GOP. Basically, he was telling them he and the Democrats couldn't or wouldn't do anything for them - and to go bother the GOP, which he knows will go nowhere.

Of course, Obama didn't push immigration reform when he had both houses of Congress during the first two years of his administration when he had political capital - but wasn't going to spend it on immigration.

"The problem right now is not on the Democratic side....Everybody for some reason is letting the Republican Party off the hook on this issue, either by hoping that I can take a unilateral action or that somehow Democrats can change the way Congress works," Obama said during a roundtable Monday with journalists for American Spanish-language newspapers. "The fact is, is if Latinos all across the country said, 'Until the Republican Party is willing to cooperate on bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform, we can’t support the Republican Party,â€

Obama is just trying to make excuses for a promise that he should never have made in the first place. He said that CIR would occur during his first 3 months in office. At that time the Democrats controlled both the House and the Senate so what was his excuse back then? Now he wants to blame the Republicans years later just because they have control of the House now?

Here are links to other Spanish-language accounts of the president's roundtable, which did not appear on his public schedule but was featured briefly in a video the White House released Friday: El Nuevo Herald, Washington Hispanic and El Tiempo Latino.

If you have to read a spanish newspaper to know what the hell is going on in this country, you should have no say at all as to how it is run.

Originally Posted by airdale

The whole system from the Obama administration to the whole immigration system, judges, courts.. The whole system needs a huge treatment of RID X. Because it is FULL OF @%#& and has been STINKING up the U.S.A for far to long!

I looked all over for that brief White House video!

Originally Posted by pattyk

If you have to read a spanish newspaper to know what the hell is going on in this country!

Goggle translator!

Originally Posted by Oldglory

Obama is just trying to make excuses for a promise that he should never have made in the first place.

Damn straight, and now the latino/hispanic/la raza chickens are coming home to roost.

While there in the coop, round up and deport!