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Subscribe to RSSAs if the oil spill, economy, financial reform, potential energy legislation, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" weren't enough, President Obama will make a major address Thursday on the need for comprehensive immigration reform.
Here's the White House's press release:
President Obama to Deliver Remarks on the Need for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
WASHINGTON- On the morning of Thursday, July 1, President Obama will deliver remarks on the need to fix our broken immigration system through comprehensive immigration reform at the American University School of International Service.
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what reform? how about enforcing current law?
Thanks for the heads up on all the spinning, twisting and eye gouging from the Right.
Play fair... yeah, whatever.
Immigration reform, I will believe it when I see it. Past Presidents have done alot of talking but very little, if anything, about the problem. Some, like Ronald Reagan, actually encouraged illegal immigration by giving amnesty to those already here. I would like to see a balanced plan that controls our borders, prevents illegal immigration while, at the same time, is humane toward those already here. A fine and possible deportation, on a case-by-case basis, for the illegals and possible shut down of businesses, huge fines and possible imprisonment of those who hire illegals.
I hope that your comment about being humane to those already here is a reference to the American Citizen and the absolute need to rid America of the illegal aliens on our land, on our roads, in our schools, and in our pocket. The fist step in any immigration reform must be mass deportation of illegal aliens, followed by cessation of other forms of immigration.
Immigration reform will never become a reality. Republicant's like cheap labor. Republicant's cannot imagine their life without having another race or ethnic group to downgrade or minimize. Their feeling of superiority is only as good as their ability to keep others from enjoying the benefits of the USA.
Everyone is suspect and not worthy......Cheap labor means more money for the boss!
Republicant's care about the unborn, not the born!
Republicant's want small government and big corporations (unregulated)!
Hmmmm and the Dumocrats want open borders Explain that one.
You are right except about the “born”. Christians love everyone, except when they fail and everyone fails unless they have no standards to fail at. The Catholic Church wants more members, the Democrats want more Democratic voters, the Republicans want more customers and cheap labor and the liberal Christians want open borders to sooth their feelings of guilt. The ordinary citizens of the United State are the losers here, especially the future citizens. Our children and grandchildren will inherit a 3rd world cesspool of ghettos, gangs, drugs, ignorance, violence, etc. – essentially Mexico. If you don’t believe me look at the sirnames of the people committing the crimes in your local paper. No one can deny we are moving in a direction and that direction is not a good one. The rich will get richer, the powerful more powerful, the low lifes more abundant, and good and honest people will suffer. It’s politically incorrect to say, but truth isn’t always “nice”. It just is.
Hardest working President of the modern era.
And, with all due respect...
Most unpopular agenda of any President of the modern era.
Good luck with this one.
Yes, Nash it takes hard work to destroy a country!!!
And he's doing a bang up job of it too!!
Yehee Haw!!
Mixed Bag:
I don't consider a 50-50 split equivalent to "unpopular" . . . pretty much the same spot we've been in for the past 3 presidential elections, no?
Max Power:
The country was well on its way to being destroyed by the previous Administration . . . seems like your Stolkholm syndrome may be acting up . . . you're so used to being fed pre-programmed talking points in a controlled environment that you don't desire to leave that for the freedom to actually think for yourself.
As you wish.
Mixed Up Bag and Miny Power,
Nashville in corect, our President has done more in 18 months than most do in a term. Many of you keep forgetting who got this country in the mess it is in. Big Tax breaks to the rich, two wars None of which is paid for. Decreased regulations on Big Oil and Wall Street and look what that got us Americans. The past administration has trashed this country, refuse to accept responsibility for it and try to push it off on President Obama. Sad, truly sad.
The right hates to be reminded of all this President has accomplished in 18 months. He was left a "To Do List" by George W. that was just criminal and the naysayers keep whining about how he needs to take responsibility, work harder, work faster, work slower, too much, too little, blah, blah , blah.
Well, duh. He is handling that "list" as quickly and efficiently as possible given all the opposition he faces daily from the Republicans!
Most insulting of all, Jeb Bush scolding the President for speaking truth. George Bush wrecked the country and NO President Obama is not going to say he "broke it" if Bush was in charge when the economy tanked and he started two wars that were not paid for. Because Obama put all of that $ on the books that Bush was hiding he gets to be the bad guy. He** no!
Mixed Bag
And, with all due respect...
Most unpopular agenda of any President of the modern era.
Good luck with this one.
Good luck to you, former president George Bush will go down as the MOST unpopular president. see have a brother become president and you people forget about how bad Bush really was.
Jeff-
Let's go through this for a minute, in terms of public support for President Obama's policy agenda.
These are the items on that agenda that do not enjoy majority support; many of them have pluralities, or outright majorities of the public opposing:
Obamacare, the closing of Guantanamo, civilian trials for KSM and the other 9/11 plotters, and the upcoming Justice Department lawsuit against the state of Arizona over its illegal immigration law. Also, the public already disapproves of the Obama Administration's handling of the issue of immigration...pushing for comprehensive immigration reform isn't likely to improve those numbers for the President.
In addition to those policy items, majorities of the public disapprove of President Obama's handling of the economy, the deficit, and his handling of the federal government's response to the Gulf oil catastrophe.
Trust me, Jeff...it's not President Obama's skin color or ethnicity that they (or I) have a problem with.
President Obama wouldn't be in the Oval Office now were that the case.
It's about choosing which issues are going to be addressed, how they're going to be addressed, and what the emphasis is on each one.
Mixed Bag
Hey man whats happening!!!
Look my point was not to put race in, its just that i wish the public was on former president bush like President Obama, maybe because unlike Bush, Obama is trying to do everything on his plate, as my ma use to say, your eyes are bigger than your stomach.
immigration reform, George Bush, bill Clinton, George Bush Senior, did nothing about immigration reform, but the fact Obama has not done any thing in his first 18 months he is a failure, right!!!
the economy, the stimulus was half as much as his economic advisers wanted, but he knew that was not possible, and some calls for a second one he has dismissed. we were loosing 600 thousand jobs a month in November, December and January of 08 , George Bush did not address it, so Obama took over a sinking ship, Bush got in his row boat and got away from the sinking ship before is pulled him down, so this is now Obama failure because he did not know how bad the ship was sinking when he got on it, Right!!!
If you say right to both issues than in your eyes no matter what he does he will be a falure.
with HCR. i, just like the president had to watch my mother die because of the have and have nots in our healthcare system. something had to be done like it or not. if hillary had been elected HCR would have been government run, and mandated, His is not.
Greetings, Jeff-
I think it's yet to be determined whether or not President Obama will be regarded as a failure.
But, his inability to hear and acknowledge the concerns of the American public on so many issues is troubling.
President Obama told Dianne Sawyer "I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president".
If he continues on his present course, he won't be either one.
The illegal immigration issue is not about human or civil rights… it’s about a nation’s right and the rights of that nation's citezenry to control its own border as well as its fundamental need to know exactly who is coming in and what they are bringing with them. this is a very basic national requirement.
Without an effective immigration policy (which we already have but do not enforce) and more importantly, real enforcement of that policy, the basic security of the nation is at risk, both economically and in terms of safety. right now our national security is and has been exposed and enormously impacted for decades due to a blatant and willful failure of the federal government to enforce our existing immigration laws.
The national security and perhaps more importantly,the basic economic security of our nation is at stake!
The people of these united states need to take a stand and force their government at all levels to enforce and support the enforcement of our laws and work with the states and local governments (not against them) to ensure the safety and economic security of our nation and its people!!!!
The people need to demand that their federal and state governments publish accurate and truthful numbers reflecting the true economic impact of illegal immigration. if the american citezens had any real idea of the true cost in terms of negative social and economic impact, they would likely declare war on the federal government.
Forget about al queda! Illegal immigration is the most real and current threat to the national security and economic security of the united states of america!!!!!!! live it!!! learn it!!! repeat it!!!!! take it to your representatives and out into the streets if need be!!!!
Get off your lazy butts and stop this economic terror now!!!!!!
The flood-gates of the southern border have been allowed to remain open for one reason and one reason only…
In-sourcing – to accomodate the corporate-american-police-state in their goals of saturating the labor market with cheap labor, forcing american citezens to compete with millions and millions of mexico’s (india's, china's & others' as well) impoverished, causing downward pressure on american wages and socializing the cost of their healthcare & education by passing the buck (burden) on to the backs of tax payers!!!!
It”s time to shout-down your representatives and your president and expose the truth behind decades of open border policies and the resulting damage to what was once a great nation!!!
Save your childrens’ future and openly voice/shout your opposition to the current invasion and economic terror that our federal government has subjected its citezenry to for decades!!!!!!!!!!!
How much longer and how much more do the american people need to tolerate out and out abuse by their government?
When will a patriotic group of lawyers or legislators take on the task of filing law suit after law suit, pursuing those in the us government who willfully and woefully work against the better intrests of their constituency, the citezenry, the people of the united states of america???
Wake up folks!!! For time is of the essence!!!!
All valid points about the cancer illegal immigration truly is hermest , no one can make an honest argument against them, but you can yell at your representatives all you like, they don't care. Oh sure they will tell you they agree with you then when they get back to the Capital with all their rich lobbyist buddies they will sell you and all of us down the river in a heartbeat. I wish our government done what was best for this nation and it's citizens but they won't, they will take their bribe money and laugh at us all the way to the bank, it is to the point there will can be no sensible solution, that time has long past, it will have to get very very ugly before our so-called Representatives realize that the status-quo ain't going to cut it anymore, I don't believe the pain and misery has worked it's way high enough up the food chain for that yet, but it will eventually because the greedy bastards running this country won't stop until they think they have it all.
We need comprehensive OIL reform. We must have a bill that spells out how much oil will be produced, from deep water, land and shale. We must have a comprehensive scheme in place BEFORE any further attempts are made to stop the Gulf leak. There should be no efforts to stop the leak until there is comprehensive reform. The bill will tell us who gets to drill, how much and the price that oil will be sold. Again, this must be done BEFORE the spill is stopped.
Desn't make a lot of sense, yet everyday hundreds and thousands of new illegals flow in.
The average illegal commits how many crimes in this county?
1. illegal entry; 2. driving without a license; 3. driving without insurance; 4. pays no state income tax; 5. pays no federal income tax; 6. identiy theft; and that's just for starters.
Rewarding criminal befavor is always a good idea. Except I remember all the way back to 1986: make the ones here legal and stop all the rest. THat didn't really work out. I'm sure the government will get it right this time.
So Obama calls our immigration system broken? The only broken part I see is the enforcement part. We have so many unemployed American citizens who could be put to work along our southern border stopping the "brown leak" of illegals that continues to flow North on a daily basis. This would be an excellent use of some of that stimulus money. If you were in a small boat out at sea and it was taking on water, what do you do first? First you stop the leak. (SEAL THE BORDER) Then, you bail out all the water you have taken on. (DEPORTATION) It's not rocket science, c'mon.
Hey Nash,
Hey, quit looking through those rose colored glasses and you might see what's really happening!! If you think he's doing such a great job, wait until next year when new taxes kick in and every body's paycheck gets smaller, then talk to me about "talking points". Unfortunately, you won't be able to do that either because the truth is a hard thing to talk about when you are delusional!!
I was hopeful the president would bring some leadership to our country, some energy, but Obama lost me when he not only wouldn't enforce (the peoples) federal law on immigration, but is taking the only state, with the b*lls to enforce an identical state law, to court. It's not bad enough ignoring our laws he actively fights our laws. It's an outrage! Why a president can’t be impeached for not enforcing the law, a law legally enacted by representatives of the American people, a law currently supported by the American people? Is he above the law? Aren't we a country of laws? Why pass laws if they are ignored by "our" government? If this isn't treason I don't know what would be. He is actively fighting the American people and hopes to take control of the country with millions of new Democratic voters imported illegally from a FOREIGN country, a country sending us millions of poor people to support who then send our money back to their home countries! Doesn't that bother anybody? We've become a country of apathetic, self-absorbed, clueless, ignoramuses. I want my kids to inherit a country more like the country I grew up in and learned to love dearly.
I was hopeful the president would bring some leadership to our country, some energy, but Obama lost me when he not only wouldn't enforce (the peoples) federal law on immigration, but is taking the only state, with the b*lls to enforce an identical state law, to court. It's not bad enough ignoring our laws he actively fights our laws. It's an outrage! Why a president can’t be impeached for not enforcing the law, a law legally enacted by representatives of the American people, a law currently supported by the American people, I don't know. Is he above the law? Aren't we a country of laws? Why pass laws if they are ignored by "our" government? If this isn't treason I don't know what would be. He is actively fighting the American people and hopes to take control of the country with millions of new Democratic voters imported illegally from a FOREIGN country, a country sending us millions of poor people to support who then send our money back to their home countries! Doesn't that bother anybody? We've become a country of apathetic, self-absorbed, clueless, ignoramuses. I want my kids to inherit a country more like the country I grew up in and learned to love dearly.
What about unemployed Americans! What about American Jobs!
We can't be held hostage by people flooding over our border AND employers who are only willing to pay $7 an hour w/ no benefits. American deserve to have our immigration laws enforced. Before Reagan's Amnesty, Americans worked at meat packing plants for UNION wages, making good middle class livings, now it's immigrant work making $10 an hour, horrible conditions, no benefits. We need our immigration laws enforced, Americans need jobs.
Any Amnesty plan is simply a jobs bill for Mexicans and other foreign nationals. Our teens and minorities face a 25% unemployment. How about that Mr President!
What I love about the immigration debate is that the press continues to refer to the immigration bill in Arizona as "contraversial" and "divisive" when every poll I read, see or hear about shows an approval rate among the American populace of 60% to 70%. Theres not a politician in the country with that kind of backing and yet the press and their cronies on Capitol Hill continue with this utterly biased characterization of a law that is strongly favored by the majority of American Citizens. Bias...what bias?
Why is he doing this NOW? There are more important things going on at the moment.
The immigration problem has been ignored for decades, but it is worse now with the illegal drugs coming into this country & the mexican gang wares plus the illegal aliens.
The President should be impeached for not enforcing our immigration laws. How revolting it was when the president of Mexica stood on the platform of Congress & denounced Arizona for passing their own immigration bill & Members of Congress standing up & clapping their hands. As far as I'm concerned they should have all been hung from the nearest tree & & the Mexican President booted out of our country.
The only thing the President & his administration does is critizise the Arizona Immigration bill & none of them have read it.
This is a Brain dead administration & I can't wait until they are voted out of office.
All they can do is SPEND,SPEND,SPEND without any good results , only putting our country in deeper debt.
2011 our financial system will crash again.
Our economy needs more workers. It is worse than pointless to try to send illegal immigrants back. Give legal status to most of the 11 or 12 million that are already here and increase the number of workers VISAs from 5000 to 500,000 a year. This will help the economy and stop the senseless drain of resources wasted on trying to catch people who are only trying to do good things such as work and support their families.
The problem with drugs and violence is due to another senseless set of laws that prohibit marijuana and other drugs. Legalize a wide range of drugs but regulate and tax them. This will dry up the illegal trade and turn the activity into a profit center.
The Second Amendment does not require that we arm Mexico. But even for this, it would probably be best to establish a regulated, taxed, and well controlled arms export industry rather than the unregulated mess we have now. Mass prohibition of anything--movement of people, movement of drugs, movement of arms--generally fails and causes a heavy burden of crime. But sensible regulation of private enterprise activities--such as hiring workers, supplying recreational and medical drugs, and supplying weapons to legal and responsible individuals--generally produces prosperity.
We are going at this totally backwards right now and the Arizona law is just trying to reinforce the worst mistakes that we are making in this country.