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Originally Posted by Jelly Bean Lover
Just to be clear, immigration is an issue that affects many U.S. citizens. Lots of people live in mixed-status families, so I am not sure how by enacting immigration reform quickly in his first year--as he promised!--Obama would have been pandering to the undocumented. In the sense that this issue affects those citizens it affects in a very bad way, I think it would have been very justifiable for him to have moved quickly--regardless of whether some people in this forum wish to throw around the words "illegals" and "pandering" as though this website is WND or redstate.com, or some similarly extreme right-wing website. Sometimes it amazes me how far-right wing talking points on immigration has penetrated in our society that even the very victims of their terrible rhetoric take up their ideas and run with them.
Those of you who make arguments about the financial crisis of 2008, neglect to address the fact that Obama enacted a Republican healthcare law as his signature first term achievement. And that had nothing to do with strengthening the economy, no matter how much the Democrats wish to make it seem as though it did. The Stimulus and Frank-Dodd could have easily happened at the same time as immigration reform if the Democrats had only willed it; perhaps by now they would have been able to enact a better health reform law than Obamacare.
In any event, one thing is for certain, if Obama had not dragged his feet on the DAPA extension and announced it in the summer of 2014, it could not have hurt the results in the November elections (the dumbass Blue Dog Democrats in the Senate they were trying to protect would have lost anyway), and it would have meant that the resolution in the courts would have been much further along by now. It might have even helped the Dems in places like Colorado where low Hispanic turnout hurt them.
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Whats clear is that Immigration has Never been a real pressing issue or a priority in the United States. It has always been a political football. These mixed families you speak of have had to live with the lack of any kind of action because that is the reality for us. No amount of demanding is going to enact immigration relief, its usually a political move or a sitting president who decides it's the right thing to do. A lot of folks are out of touch with reality about how hard it is to push through immigration changes. There has only ever been 1 recent significant amnesty----- ONLY 1 .....why do you think that is? It annoys me when I see comments criticizing that the president didn't do enough because he didn't have to do anything at all.