President Barack Obama hopes to rally new momentum behind the push for an immigration overhaul by explaining why he thinks a comprehensive approach is the only way to fix what he and others say is a system badly in need of repair.
Obama was laying out his rationale in a speech Thursday, his first as president on the issue.
UPDATE: Video of Speech now posted at CSPAN
Obama wasn’t expected to announce any new proposals or policy changes. But feeling pressure from a range of supporters, he was aiming to jump-start the effort he had promised to make a priority in his first year and which advocates had hoped would be completed by now.
The speech follows up on back-to-back meetings Obama had with advocates and lawmakers at the White House this week.
Obama has said a comprehensive solution means “accountability for everybody” — from the U.S. government meeting its obligation to secure the border, to businesses facing the consequences of knowingly employing illegal immigrants, to those who enter the country illegally owning up to their actions before they can begin the process of becoming citizens.
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[Editor's Commentary: The system that is most in need of repair is our broken border law enforcement system. Obama and his liberal enablers only talk of "comprehensive immigration reform" as a code phrase for "let's naturalize 14-20 million lawbreakers and sign them up as newly minted Democrat voters to replace the 20 million votes we have lost because of our ruinious policies and legislation."
Make no mistake, if Barack "Oil Slick" Obama gets his way on Amnesty, he stays in the White House for four more years and you can only imagine what the country will look like after two full terms with this Corporate Fascist at the helm.]
This is nothing more than an orchestrated distraction, be it to take attention away from the oil spill, the flagging poll numbers, the Afghan War, the Blago Trial, you take your pick…
If Obama wants to introduce the subject of immigration into the Mid-Terms, he just increased the GOP voter turn out. He was going to lose the house, now he might lose the Senate. What Obama might do with both houses turning Republican is to say they won’t work with him and use them as a scape goat.
Remember, they would have the numbers for impeachment, and the Republicans could really strike a blow to the Democrats in 2012 by giving the public Pres. Joe Biden. Even then, the damage is done and Hillary riding into the DNC convention on a Donkey won’t improve it.
Obama, please speak as much you can about immigration, hold as many town halls as you can, flood the media with soundbytes, talk it up! You are the best asset the GOP could ever have heading into a Mid-Term.
100% agreement on your take on this. We need to make sure Obama’s message gets out to the people, loud and clear. Taking up Amnesty four months before the mid-terms is an absolutely brilliant move by Obama.
I intend to provide as much publicity for the President’s new push to “pack” the electorate as I possibly can.
If I wasn’t hearing this stuff with my own ears and seeing it with my own eyes, I would refuse to believe it.