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12-22-2010, 09:00 PM #31
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Related : Disappointed Obama vows to pass immigration bill
(AFP) – 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama vowed Wednesday to push immigration reform through a divided Congress, calling lawmakers' failure to pass a White House-backed bill his "biggest disappointment" yet.
The so-called DREAM Act would have offered a path to citizenship to young undocumented immigrants who attend college or join the military, but the measure fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance through the Senate on Saturday.
But Obama insisted he was "persistent" and "determined" to secure passage of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act in the new Congress, which will see Republicans gain control of the House of Representatives and his fellow Democrats face shrinking Senate numbers in January.
"My biggest disappointment was this DREAM Act vote... I want to do right by those kids," Obama told a year-end press conference.
He called it "heartbreaking" that some of these children, brought illegally into the country by their parents through no fault of their own, live under a "shadow of fear."
"I'm very disappointed Congress wasn't able to pass the DREAM Act so we can stop punishing kids for the actions of their parents and allow them to serve in the military or earn an education and contribute their talents to the country where they grew up," the president said.
After repeated efforts failed to secure a comprehensive overhaul of the tattered immigration system in the United States -- where some 11 million undocumented people reside -- the bipartisan bill had sought to better integrate children brought illegally to the country by their parents.
But Republicans criticized it as "amnesty" for illegal immigrants.
Obama insisted, however, that his administration has "done more" to secure the US borders with Mexico and Canada than ever before. He welcomed Republican ideas on border security.
The measure would have offered legal residency to undocumented immigrants under 30 who arrived in the United States before they were 16, have lived on US soil for five years and have not committed serious crimes.
Eligible immigrants would have also had to have graduated from high school and either attended college or served in the US armed forces.
Obama has said the legislation was key to US economic competitiveness and military readiness, and that the act would have slashed the ballooning deficit by 2.2 billion dollars over 10 years.
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12-22-2010, 09:08 PM #32Originally Posted by topsecret10
Heck, just the money saved on benefits from deporting all illegals (not even including the job/unemployment part) would probably put California in the black, lmao.
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12-23-2010, 02:27 AM #33Obama has said the legislation was key to US economic competitiveness and military readiness, and that the act would have slashed the ballooning deficit by 2.2 billion dollars over 10 years.
Actually, I think the CBO estimate was 1.4 billion, not the 2.2 billion that Obama said. And the 1.4 billion depends on the amnestied illegals graduating with high paying job skills that are actually needed, the jobs being available, that nobody else is displaced by the illegals, and some other really iffy stuff. The CBO probably does the best that it can, but if Congress tells the CBO to put suspect data in, then suspect results come out. But, the pro-amnesty folks have no problem repeating what may be an essentially contrived fabrication as fact.
Closing/sealing the borders and deporting 10% of the current illegal population over each of the next 10 years would solve most current problems and more importantly prevent new ones -- unlike Obama's plan.
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12-23-2010, 10:44 AM #34Originally Posted by topsecret10
They're going to drain our economy into a 3rd world shit hole and we're going to wind up being the "SLUMDOGS!"Support our FIGHT AGAINST illegal immigration & Amnesty by joining our E-mail Alerts at http://eepurl.com/cktGTn
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12-24-2010, 01:02 PM #35
"How did this guy get into college cause his math really sucks!
They're going to drain our economy into a 3rd world V****V hole and we're going to wind up being the "SLUMDOGS!" "
I think we would all like to know what his education records really are......including his ability as a U.S. citizen to get a Fulbright scholarship on U.S. soil. Unfortunately, to date, he has spent over a million bucks to his goon attorneys who have been able to keep all of his college records sealed..... all of them
Laura Loomer - Woke up this morning to a @nytimes article...
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