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Originally posted by: pjstroh
DonDiego might be shocked to learn that illegal immigrants have been living in the US for decades.
What were those illegal immigrants called when they were allowed to stay in the US in any of the previous administrations? Did they have a catchy, hyphenated, 20 syllable phrase like DonDiego is ascribing them now?
In any event - DonDiego is right. Congress is quickly looking for a new excuse as to why they cant do their job. 4 years until now the excuse has been they didn't think they could trust the president....now the excuse is the president is about to hurt their feelings.
Pollsters estimate that any 2016 presidential candidate is going to require 2/3 of the Latino vote to win. The president is doing something to address Latino concerns...Congress is looking for more excuses as to why they cant. Speaker Boehner's latest excuse is he thinks the president's executive orders might "poison the well". I wish the speaker good luck selling his lack of action to the Latino community. I'm sure they'll understand.
Originally posted by: pjstroh
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Originally posted by: DonDiego
Summary: The Obama intends to change the status of "illegal immigrants" to, . .. well, . . . DonDiego isn't sure, . . . maybe it'll be called "Obama-immigrants-with-newly-authorized-semilegal-status-until-The-Obama-can-just-declare-them-'legal'-or something-else".
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DonDiego might be shocked to learn that illegal immigrants have been living in the US for decades.
What were those illegal immigrants called when they were allowed to stay in the US in any of the previous administrations? Did they have a catchy, hyphenated, 20 syllable phrase like DonDiego is ascribing them now?
In any event - DonDiego is right. Congress is quickly looking for a new excuse as to why they cant do their job. 4 years until now the excuse has been they didn't think they could trust the president....now the excuse is the president is about to hurt their feelings.
Pollsters estimate that any 2016 presidential candidate is going to require 2/3 of the Latino vote to win. The president is doing something to address Latino concerns...Congress is looking for more excuses as to why they cant. Speaker Boehner's latest excuse is he thinks the president's executive orders might "poison the well". I wish the speaker good luck selling his lack of action to the Latino community. I'm sure they'll understand.
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So if DonDiego is reading correctly, pjstroh agrees at last that the President intends to change the status of illegal immigrants - subject to deportation IAW Law - to some other "status, which will certainly not include deportation.
DonDiego is not as easily "shocked" as pjstroh believes. And way-back-when illegal immigrants were called "illegal immigrants", not, f'rinstance, "undocumented workers". And whatever was being done or not being done in previous years, DonDiego has been consistent:
__The border should be secured. Open borders are incompatible with a Welfare State.
__Illegal immigrants should be removed from the country.
__Legal immigration should include procedures to accept the most well trained, productive, law-abiding individuals into the fold of US citizenship.
DonDiego suggests that The Obama should not be addressing the "concerns" of illegal immigrants, but rather those of all US citizens regardless of their race, color, creed, or national origins. He recognizes this is not The Democrat Way.
DonDiego thanks pjstroh for the compliment.
So if DonDiego is reading correctly, pjstroh agrees at last that the President intends to change the status of illegal immigrants - subject to deportation IAW Law - to some other "status, which will certainly not include deportation.
DonDiego is not as easily "shocked" as pjstroh believes. And way-back-when illegal immigrants were called "illegal immigrants", not, f'rinstance, "undocumented workers". And whatever was being done or not being done in previous years, DonDiego has been consistent:
__The border should be secured. Open borders are incompatible with a Welfare State.
__Illegal immigrants should be removed from the country.
__Legal immigration should include procedures to accept the most well trained, productive, law-abiding individuals into the fold of US citizenship.
DonDiego suggests that The Obama should not be addressing the "concerns" of illegal immigrants, but rather those of all US citizens regardless of their race, color, creed, or national origins. He recognizes this is not The Democrat Way.
DonDiego thanks pjstroh for the compliment.
