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Obama to Trump: Protect 'Dreamers'

The president relayed to Hill Democrats a 'very direct' conversation he had with his successor on a key immigration initiative.

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President Barack Obama told Democratic lawmakers Wednesday that he stressed to Donald Trump the importance of his 2012 executive action that shielded so-called "Dreamers" from deportation and granted them work permits — a program that Trump vowed to dismantle as he campaigned during his presidential bid.

Obama relayed details of his immigration conversation with the president-elect during a morning confab at the Capitol with House and Senate Democrats. Though the meeting focused largely on Obama’s health care law, the outgoing president separately noted to lawmakers that he “spoke to Trump very directly” about beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, according to one member who attended.

“His message was, those are good kids who didn’t do anything wrong,” the lawmaker said. “That was heartfelt. He brought that up.” Two other sources confirmed Obama’s remarks at the private meeting.

The lawmaker said Obama indicated that a fight over the future of DACA recipients would be one issue that would prompt him to get back in the political arena.

Trump pledged as a candidate to overturn Obama’s executive actions on immigration — though since his election, Trump has taken a softer tone toward so-called Dreamers.

"We’re going to work something out that’s going to make people happy and proud,” Trump told Time magazine last month. “They got brought here at a very young age, they’ve worked here, they’ve gone to school here. Some were good students. Some have wonderful jobs. And they’re in never-never land because they don’t know what’s going to happen.”

DACA is one of the largest components of Obama’s legacy on immigration. More than 740,000 young undocumented immigrants have obtained temporary work permits and avoided the threat of deportation through the program, which Obama enacted without Congress.

So Much For Working With The Republicans. White House WILL DO Immigration Reform Before The End Of The Year.

WH's Earnest: Obama 'Looking Forward' to Executive Amnesty Order

Wednesday, 12 Nov 2014 11:32 AM

By Melanie Batley

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President Barack Obama is "looking forward" to imposing an executive order that will give amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants currently in the country, said White House press secretary Josh Earnest.

Just two days after the election, the president announced his intention to unilaterally move forward with executive plans on immigration, even as House Speaker John Boehner and incoming House Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned that it would be a bad start to establishing a constructive working relationship with Congress.

"Jorge, I'll just be as clear and candid as I possibly can,” Earnest said on Fusion TV's "America with Jorge Ramos."

"The president made a promise in the fall that if Congress didn't act that the president himself would take executive action to try to solve the problems of our broken immigration system before the end of the year. The president is going to keep that promise and is going to make that announcement before the end of the year.

"And it reflects a disappointment on part of the president."

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Earnest added that House Republicans were to blame for failing to pass immigration reform, which has forced the president to take action himself.

"The president is disappointed that this legislative solution won't be achieved, but the president is looking forward to taking executive action on his own to solve as many of these problems as he can."

Obama has vowed to act before the end of the year, but the White House has not elaborated on what the executive order will entail.

The possibilities include halting deportations of the parents of children brought to the United States illegally. But it could also be broader, affecting as many as the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently estimated to be living in the U.S.

Obama's action could also drive a wedge between Republicans, with some who say the party must take steps to modify its position against undocumented immigrants and others who continue to believe they are lawbreakers who should be returned to their home countries.

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Obama Purposely Increasing Illegal Aliens To Ensure His Immigration Reform Passes

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BREAKING: Obama Makes Huge Move to Drastically INCREASE the Border Invasion [DETAILS]

It should be absolutely clear to everyone by now that the border crisis has been orchestrated by the Obama administration as part of a grand scheme to pass amnesty and expand the Democratic voter base.

There’s no other way to explain away the lunacy of taking absolutely no action to uphold immigration laws and provide resources to secure the border.

Not only has Obama done nothing to stop the massive influx of illegals, many with criminal records, from crossing over into the U.S., putting American citizens at risk, he’s now apparently opened the flood gates with a huge invitation to just come on over.

According to Fox News, Obama, who once claimed to deport more illegals than any other other president, has been drastically reducing deportations, enabling millions of illegal immigrants to get a free pass to stay in the country.

Analysis conducted on numbers from the Department of Homeland Security, found the federal government deported 258,608 illegals during the time between October 2013 and the end of July this year. During the same period of time a year earlier, a total of 320,167 illegals were sent back home, demonstrating a decrease in deportations of 20 percent.

Some of the excuses being given for this reduction include Obama’s renewed focus to rid the country of criminal illegals who pose a threat to public safety. If his strategy to remove the threat is to continue letting them waltz across the border, he’s failing miserably.

Another reason is due to the backlog of individuals getting stuck in the court system, which right now consists of 400,000 cases. Unreal.

The real reason for the reduction is simple. The more illegals are here, the easier it is to overburden the system and pass amnesty. It’s all part of the plan.

Obama is putting the lives of citizens at risk to place his political party in a more favorable position for future upcoming elections, without giving his strategy a second thought.

Crime has been on the uptick in border states, which suddenly Obama calls a “local issue.”

The solution to this problem is fairly simple. Build a fence or a wall to keep people from crossing over, and install armed patrol units to help catch those brave and foolish souls who still try to make it across. Take the illegals currently living here and send them home.

Click here to see pictures of militia groups doing what Obama won’t by patrolling the border.

If something isn’t done soon, the financial burden from caring for illegals will simply be too much to bear.

Please share this article on Facebook and Twitter if you support securing the border with fences and deporting illegals already here to their home countries.thing isn’t done soon, the financial burden from caring for illegals will simply be too much to bear.

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In Purely Political Move, Obama Puts Off Unilateral Immigration Action

Activists Blast Obama for Retreat on Immigration Promise

Saturday, 06 Sep 2014 01:26 PM

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President Barack Obama reversed course on Saturday and delayed taking executive action on immigration reform until after November congressional elections, bowing to concerns it could cost his fellow Democrats control of the U.S. Senate.The decision was an about-face for the president, who promised in a high-profile Rose Garden appearance in June to announce unilateral measures by the end of summer if Congress did not enact immigration reform legislation.
A White House official cited partisan politics as the main reason for the delay.
"The reality the president has had to weigh is that we're in the midst of the political season," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"And because of the Republicans' extreme politicization of this issue, the president believes it would be harmful to the policy itself and to the long-term prospects for comprehensive immigration reform to announce administrative action before the elections," the official said.
Obama will take action on immigration before the end of the year, the official said.
The delay drew immediate criticism from immigration reform advocates who considered it a betrayal of the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, and accused the president of putting politics first.
"Today the president and the Senate Democrats have made it very clear that undocumented immigrants and Latinos are simply viewed as political pawns," said the PICO immigration reform group.

"To wait nine more weeks means that I must again look my mother in the eye and see the fear she has about living under the threat of deportation every day," said Cristina
Jiménez, director of United We Dream, an advocacy group. "But Dreamers will not soon forget the president and Democrats’s latest failure and their attempts to fool the Latino community, and we remain resolute in fighting for justice for our families."

Frank Sharry, director of America's Voice, slammed Obama for the delay.

"We advocates didn’t make the reform promise; we just made the mistake of believing it," Sharry told The Hill. "The President and Senate Democrats have chosen politics over people; the status quo over solving real problems."

"It is hard to believe this litany of high expectations and broken promises will be mended by the end of the year," he said.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, who is in a tight midterm race himself, called the decision cynical.
"He's just saying he'll go around the law once it's too late for Americans to hold his party accountable in the November elections," McConnell said in a statement.
Republicans, who already control the House of Representatives, have seized on immigration to attack vulnerable Democratic senators.In New Hampshire, the issue has helped Republican Scott Brown erode the lead in opinion polls of Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen, upending White House calculations earlier this summer that immigration would not play a major role in the elections.
Other Democratic candidates in tough Senate races asked the White House to delay. Republicans need six seats to gain control of the chamber — a win that would badly undermine Obama for the remainder of his second term.
Obama was circumspect about the timing of his announcement on executive action when asked about it a week ago during a news conference, and advocates could see the writing on the wall.
"But I think overall the feeling is going to be they've been sucker-punched, because the timetable for the end of the summer had been really clear," said Angela Kelley, an immigration policy expert at the Center for American Progress, a group that is close to the White House.
A surge of nearly 63,000 children crossing the border from Central America to the United States in the past year has fueled debate over immigration.Obama will need to rebuild confidence with immigrant communities, Kelley said in an interview, which may require a more aggressive package of executive actions when it finally does arrive.
"If you expect a guy to ask you to marry him, and then he keeps putting off the proposal, you're going to want a two-carat ring instead of a one-carat ring," Kelley said.
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Border Patrol Personnel Are Disgusted. One Comment Says A Lot.

Futility On The Border: Checkpoint Exchange Between Trucker, Patrol Agent Neatly Sums Up Obama’s Backward Immigration Policy

August 4, 2014 by Personal Liberty News Desk 

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Big rig hauler Travis Pope posted a video, shot in late July, of a brief exchange between himself and a U.S. Border Patrol agent as the trucker passed through a Border Patrol checkpoint in Texas. Then he put it on YouTube.

Their conversation is brief, but it nicely encapsulates much of what’s wrong with the Obama Administration’s attitude toward border enforcement and toward the handing of illegal aliens.

The Border Patrol’s hands are tied, and no one knows it better than the agents. For an agent to voice even a casual opinion, such as this one does, raises the question of whether he’ll be disciplined or fired in the Federal government’s reprisal culture. Many Americans who pass through these checkpoints now view them more as a bureaucratic joke than as a nuisance or as an infringement on liberty. The checkpoint exercise has become a perfunctory dance between people in an ant-like chain and the demoralized, just-doing-their-jobs (most of them) agents – bottlenecks which most illegals ignore by eschewing roads, borders and checkpoints.

Lately, it’s not even been necessary to eschew the agents.

Illegals Get More Benefits--Legal Representation!

Pelosi: No Deportation Without Representation

July 29, 2014 by Personal Liberty News Desk 

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Criticizing a $659 million GOP border bill as not doing enough to help illegal immigrants Tuesday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) implored lawmakers to “have a heart” and embrace the flood of people coming to the country illegally.

“It’s not just about having a heart, it’s about having a soul,” Pelosi said. “And the soul of our country is about respecting the dignity and worth of every person. The soul of our country is about giving every person access to rights who is in our country.”

Pelosi, citing an unnamed friend, said that there should be no “deportation without representation.”

“So I also thank the groups who are here who advocate for proper representation,” she said.

The GOP bill would spend far less than President Barack Obama requested for handling the immigration crisis and, unlike the White House plan, would speed up deportations and increase border security.

“The argument some make that because of what’s happening on the border, we shouldn’t pass comprehensive immigration reform is upside down,” she said. “Because of what’s happening on the border, we even more quickly pass comprehensive immigration reform.”