Obama Promises Immigration Reform in First Year of Second Term
Below is a transcripts on Obama’s comments on immigration reform and the Trayvon Martin case.
Enrique Acevedo: Mr. President, excuse the personal note, but I grew up in a generation that has lived with the unfulfilled promise of immigration reform, and I’m not that young. And do you think if you are reelected you will be the President that gets it done? And can you promise you’ll do it within the first year of your second term?
President Barack Obama: I can promise that I will try to do it in the first year of my second term. I want to try this year. The challenge we’ve got on immigration reform is very simple. I’ve got a majority of Democrats who are prepared to vote for it, and I’ve got no Republicans who are prepared to vote for it. It’s worse than that. We now have a Republican nominee who said that the Arizona laws are a model for the country; that — and these are laws that potentially would allow someone to be stopped and picked up and asked where their citizenship papers are based on an assumption.
EA: Racial profiling.
PBO: Very troublesome, and this is something that the Republican nominee has said should be a model for the country. So what we need is a change either of Congress or we need Republicans to change their mind, and I think this has to be an important debate during — throughout the country. What I’ve said to Latinos across the United States is that my passion for this issue is undiminished; that when it comes to, for example, the Dream Kids who have been raised as Americans and see themselves as Americans and want to serve their country or are willing to work hard in school and start businesses or work in our laboratories and in our businesses, it is shameful that we cannot get that done. And so I’m just going to keep on pushing as hard as I can, and what I’m going to be encouraging is the Latino community continue to ask every member of Congress where they stand on these issues, but the one thing that I think everybody needs to understand is that this is something I care deeply about. It’s personal to me, and I will do everything that I can to try to get it done. But ultimately I’m going to need Congress to help me.
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Posted Apr 16 2012
Let's hope that Obama keeps his promise this time, but if the GOP blocks legalization of the 11 million undocumented immigrants who are here, Obama must reject any piecemeal reform such as high-tech visa reform or farm labor reform.
Piecemeal reform would make it impossible to pass other pieces of leglislation later. All the stake holder must be kept at the table until CIR can pass.
Posted Apr 16 2012
"I can promise that I will try to do ..." What a bunch of BS. We heard it all before. Obama had 2 years of Democratic majority in Congress and still he choose not to work on immigration reform. Obama, give us a reason to vote for you other that "Republicans are even worth".
Posted Apr 16 2012
Evidence is accumulating on the issue of Voter fraud, that although Attorney General Eric Holder stated, “that Voter Fraud is nonexistent” many state election commissions of finding out the hard way that they are not exempt from the problem. Under the present federal law there are no real barriers to illegal aliens voting, the dead, felons or people who do not even live in any particular precinct district have been found in the election rolls. The right of citizens voting is one of our greatest assets, but more and more events are materializing across the country that even illegal aliens are registering. The Liberal press will keep this type of issue in under the wraps, with the fact is that the majority of violations belong to the Democratic officials. These people have just ignored or deliberately allowed foreign nationals to vote, without any regress?
Voters must discharge the Politicians, Governors, Mayors, special interest groups and the whole blend of elected officials that are harboring foreign nationals, who have implemented Sanctuary cities ordinances, who have driven policies of the Dream Acts, Chain migration ID Theft, Voter Fraud and other catastrophic Comprehensive Reform packages. But more important than anything else is to remove this President before drives us into further debt, which we cannot possibly survive. Our voting privileges are not safe anymore, from groups like ACORN involved with voter fraud. Investigative reporter James O’Keefe rendered has proven without doubt that prepared hordes of illegal “voters” can extensively damage the results of elections throughout the nation, just by claiming the identities of registered voters in those particular districts. Most Senators and House members are delinquent in stopping voter fraud, ID theft that seems to have no ending. Is there no politician out there with a backbone to introduce a citizens ID verification card? Not just for voting, but applying for welfare benefits, drivers licenses and auto insurance and even to seek work? Or are Americans going to be intimidated by the special interest groups, trade unions, the church and the minority radical organizations who think everybody should have the right to vote.
ATTENTION MITT ROMNEY, IF YOU WANT TO WIN THE PRESIDENCY, INFORM THE PUBLIC OF VOTER FRAUD, THE ACORN ORGANIZATION AND ALL THE OTHER GROUPS WHO WANT OPEN BORDERS UNDER THE REIGN OF BARACK OBAMA ARE IN OPERATION AGAIN. OBAMA HAS ISSUED HIS ULTIMATUM OF WHICH HE WILL PASS AMNESTY IF HE WINS A SECOND TERM TO THE WHITE HOUSE. THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF IMMIGRATION REFORM (FAIR), THAT A SECOND AMNESTY WILL COST TAXPAYERS $2.4 TRILLION DOLLARS TO FINALIZE IN SUBSIDES AND RETIREMENT. A 2013 AMNESTY WILL ATTRACT EVEN MORE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE AND INVITE YET ANOTHER MASSIVE INFLUX OF PEOPLE THROUGH CHAIN MIGRATION.
All 50 states and every voting precinct in America need to check their election rolls, as Non-citizen voting is a Federal felony and should be prosecuted? Some places that are currently involved in prosecution of Voter fraud and other instances of corrupted elections is in Sunland, New Mexico, the city of Vernon, California, South Bend, Indiana, Troy, New York and that’s just a few states involved in voter fraud. With no real oversight, how many more voter fraud incidents has escaped detection? One Naples, Florida voter admitted she was not a U.S. Citizen, nor a legal immigrant, but election records show she voted six times in the past eleven years. Voter fraud has boomeranged in the last decade and when illegal aliens admit they have voted multiple times and not sitting in prison, something is seriously wrong with our election system?
In this monumental voting year, non-citizens voting could affect the final battle in November. Even at the local level elections have been compromised. Using every piece of oral weaponry the Democrats do not want any changes to the Board of Election laws, evoking the usual rhetoric of racial profiling or the greatest ally that has divided the country branded ‘Political Correctness’. Every American Citizen should insist that new regulations be applied, that includes either an official picture ID or a federal issued biometric national ID card. With all the waste and corruption in Washington, every American citizen should be issued an identification document, similar to immigration and naturalization ‘Green Cards’ Granted to permanent residents.
The U.S. citizenry must come forward and must connect with the TEA PARTY “THE PEOPLE’S PARTY” to stop the erosion of legal rights, which are being reduced by this administration. Remember the TEA PARTY is tens of millions of patriotic members in chapters across our nation. This political splinter group from the GOP does not discriminate against any race, color, religion as long as you entered the United States legally. Both parties have abused immigration enforcement, by neglecting to secure the border fence and the incompetence of acknowledging that ID theft is out of control, that every illegal alien is committing a felony by using a U.S. victim’s Social security number and identity in the majority of cases, but nothing has been accomplished to halt these financial issue.
Posted Apr 17 2012
CIR will never pass simply because ordinary Americans are FED UP with foreigners who think that they are above the law. The USA takes in more LEGAL immigrants than any other nation. Obama wants to say we are a nation of laws. Will his actions reflect that or will his actions show us otherwise?
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