Obama’s turn to the far right on immigration is quite disturbing. Recently, he told some non-Latino members of Congress to not show up to a pro-Migrant press conference designed the pressure the administration.
But just a few days before the launch, members of the Obama administration called several Democratic lawmakers to ask them to tone-down their immigration rhetoric. Specifically, they reached out to several non-Latino congresspersons and asked that they, according to a Bloomberg report, “back away from a campaign led by Hispanic Democrats to block deportations involving U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants…”
Last week at a town hall, Obama told some DREAMers that he would not budge on his self-imposed policy.
Faced by a young person who disproved his claim about his Administration’s treatment of these young people, the President now seemed to concede that students and young people eligible for the DREAM Act are being deported and says that it’s not his responsibility to change that: “America is a nation of laws, which means I, as the President, am obligated to enforce the law. I don’t have a choice about that. That’s part of my job,” he said. When Ramos asked a follow-up question about granting formal administrative relief to undocumented youth, Obama was even more forceful: “There are enough laws on the books by Congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system that for me to simply, through executive order, ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as President.”
But he can start a war?
I’m not sure if this is a political posture or what. But, FYI, Congressman Luis Gutierrez is in Houston this week to discuss the goings on regarding President Obama’s deporation policy of DREAMers.
