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Obama tells Hispanics he’s ready to sign immigration reform

May. 4, 2012 11:45am Meredith Jessup

Si se puede… if you give me a second term!

At a Cinco de Mayo reception he hosted at the White House, Obama he would keep fighting for reforms to grant children of undocumented workers a path to U.S. citizenship and address other problems with the country’s complex immigration rules.

“‘No’ is not an option. I want to sign the DREAM Act into law. I’ve got the pens all ready,” he told the Rose Garden event featuring margaritas and tacos held two days ahead of May 5, marked in the United States to celebrate Mexican culture.

“I’m willing to work with anybody who is serious to get this done and to achieve bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform to solve this challenge once and for all,” he said.

The president made a similar promise a couple weeks ago in an interview with Univision:

Addressing the sensitive topic of immigration reform, Obama blamed Republicans for the lack of progress on reform legislation and pledged he would “try” to bring up the issue in the first year of a second term.

“I can promise that I will try to do it in the first year of my second term,” he said. “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.”

Does this sound familiar? It should — In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama promised to make immigration reform a “top priority” of his administration, pledging results within his first year as president:

I can hardly wait for when he tells Code Pink about his plans to close down Guantanamo Bay on his first day in office… in his second term.

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RayOne
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 4:29pm
Before air at NBC, This will go to the Wiki at RT.com
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/05/06/snl-spikes-skit-mocking-obama-osama

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DaveFrancis
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:05pm
If the majority of Americans stand with the TEA PARTY, they will enforce our immigration laws. The original 1986 Immigration Control and Reform Act will not be undermined, by either the Democrats or Republicans. Those politicians responsible for giving into pressure groups, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the ACLU, Unions, Church hierarchy and the radical minority groups, will be ejected from office. Since President Ronald Reagan signed the Simpson/ Mazzoli bill those in power have blatantly ignored these laws, until illegal immigration with its hundreds of thousands of criminals; drunk drivers causing carnage on our roads, in ever increasing numbers. The incidents of daily murders, home invasion robberies, assaults, battery and the most malignant of crimes of child molestations. IRS under reported to some degree the tax fraud in billions of dollars in child credits. THE TEA PARTY WILL PUNISH STATES WHO HAVE VIOLATED THE LAW BY IMPLEMENTING SO-CALLED SANCTUARY CITIES.

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DaveFrancis
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:04pm
The near half a million pregnant women annually who have crossed borders or arrived by plane, to take advantage of the 50 states welfare programs, including free natal care, food stamps, low income housing. The fraudulent use of ID’s to gain employment or nefarious means of exploiting an unsuspecting victim’s credit; social security numbers relived from new born babies, too young to understand that their future is been compromised. Even the newly deceased have been violated, by the old Social security number being used by illegal migrants and immigrants to gain employment?

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DaveFrancis
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:03pm
Until the border is fully sealed, as it would have been in the 2006 Secure Fence Act, with double layer fences, adorned with razor wire. A new innovation as indicated by American Patrol, Glenn Spencer’s state of technology sensor’s, is a unit that can detect human activity over a amazing distance. According to Mike King, Vice President of Border Technology, Inc., developers of the Sonic Barrier (patent applied for*), tests have shown that the group of foreigners would have been detected had they approached anywhere on the 1/2 mile line of sensors. With a detection range of more than 300 feet, and with continuous coverage, the Sonic Barrier is much superior to the government conventional sensors that could bring immediate response from border agents.

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DaveFrancis
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:02pm
Interior enforcement is just as important, to start illegal aliens leaving of their own accord? Voters need to demand from Congress, specifically from GOP House speaker, John Boehner of Ohio and Dave Camp of Michigan, as the Chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee to stop blocking the 50-state E-Verify bill. Call the central switchboard at 202-224-3121 Washington, DC. They are averse to allow the nationwide mandatory E-Verify bill to stop illegal aliens from pilfering Social Security numbers to obtain U.S. jobs. If you are really feeling enthusiastic, why don’t you place a call to one of Mr. Camp’s offices: 202-225-3625 Washington, DC (Ways & Means) 202-225-3561 Washington, DC (personal office) 989-631-2552 Midland, Mich. (district office) 231-929-4711 Traverse City, Mich. (district office?)

We must also adjust the 14th Amendment, the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2011 (H.R.140); the country can no longer sustain the subsidizing illegal aliens of $113 billions of dollars a year, being extracted from the 50 states? Bad politicians should be thrown out of office, not excluding state Governors, Mayors, Judges and all elected officials, and replace them with Fresh Tea Party leaders who will insure everybody gets their fair share of the American Dream and enforce all laws attributed to the Constitution and the Rule of Law. NumbersUSA is maintaining a data base of all related information and you should investigate their website for the latest news.

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DaveFrancis
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:01pm
That the farming and agricultural commerce will pay the benefits for their labor and not the state’s taxpayers. There will no importation of migrant poverty anymore, cutting off access to welfare, food stamps, and section 8 housing programs. Don’t need or should we accept any new low skilled workers, instead we need to supply our own citizens with more occupational programs. Further we must safeguard our voting system which has been compromised by the far left, its Liberal associates and Democrats. These entities those are adamant on allowing no states rights to demand the use of official picture ID to vote. Illegal aliens are voting and will again in local, state and federal elections. Another set of regulations to amend, would be a careful examination of the current visa system allowing around a million legal immigrants annually into the U.S. No further violation can be tolerated from businesses and we should only permit the highest brains in engineering, the sciences, mathematicians and computer technology professionals to immigrate.

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DaveFrancis
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:01pm
American voters must begin to walk the path of reclaiming the ‘Rule of Law’ in the United States, by removing the corruption in Washington. Congress had strayed from the elemental principles of the Constitution, that can be said why that 62 new members of claiming Tea Party membership in the 2012 Congress. We can do more by reclaiming the senate, from the likes of Nevada Democrat Harry Reid. But not just Congress, but the state legislators as well and this can be accomplished by removing the offal of state politicians who cling to their state seats like money hungry flies. By electing the constitutional Tea Party we have the power to clean house in all tiers of federal, state, county and municipal government.

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DaveFrancis
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:00pm
For far too long we have been intimidated by copious government. Arizona threatened in law suits by the Department of Justice. All states under ever harsher influence of the Environmental protection Agency, pushing ever increasing numbers of rules and regulation. The Department of Education that has overridden the rights of county school administrators, that is negatively illustrated by the failure within our education system. We need to rid us of the Obama voices in Congress and use the abundantly of oil, natural gas and maintain the use of solar, wind and explore new means of energy. Our deposits of petroleum could go a long way in not just solving our energy problems, but also carve away at our near 16 trillion treasury deficit.

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cherryvalleyman
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 5:54pm
We’re assuming the “illegal” immigrants already here, would somehow magically become law abiding citizens once they become legal. Further more, the real problem with immigration laws, is they’re not fully enforced. It seems to me the goal of the liberal beast is to either change the Constitution or just ignore it completely. Immigrating to the U.S. is an honor and a privilege, and should be done in a manner which is lawful. Other cultures have come to this country with hopes of making a better life for themselves and they did it legally. The reform that’s needed in this country should start with the American public’s education.

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Docrow
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 12:52pm
BHO: “If you vote for me I’ll keep the tax loop hole and you can milk money from these stupid Americans like I have”

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RayOne
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 12:27pm
Just like the promise to the President of Russia, to Puten. BHO operates like the mob.

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