President Obama spars with Jorge Ramos on Immigration

From Huffington Post

How come Ramos the tough guy doesn't interview people who you know, actually vote against immigration reform like Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, or John Boehner who let a perfectly good reform bill die on the floor of the house? Why are they going after the only guy who has actually gotten on TV in prime time several times and asked for a bill and took action on it? Yeah Obama had the power to write an Executive order the minute he got there, but if you think the political landscape is bad now, think of how bad it would have been after that and he wouldn't have passed anything else that as president he wanted to pass.

And what good will that do? We're talking about people that would sacrifice their own children as long as it would mean that CIR doesn't pass. Obama is inconsistent on immigration and its due time someone called him in, and told him "the fuck man?".

Obama before election: I support immigration reform and pathway to citizenship
Obama during presidency: I support immigration reform and pathway to citizenship, and I'll do what no other president has done so far and enact DACA
Obama on the tail end of his presidency: I support immigration reform and pathway to citizenship and since nobody else is doing it the permanent way, I'll give some more people relief.

Seems pretty consistent. Republicans say they're for it but then don't do anything. This Jorge person is going after the only person who has helped us in 1986. He's the only one. Clinton made life harder in 1996, Bush made life a lot harder, and in between, all the governors made life harder and harder. Obama is the only one who has helped us and we have Jorge taking easy shots at him. If he wants to show he's a tough reporter, go hound Marco Rubio in Spanish and English. Make him answer for his lies.

I think Ramos was out of line, for f***k's sake give em props for expanding deferred action.

It's reporters' job to be out of line and push some buttons. Everyone should be checked from time to time lol.

Let me fix that for you:
Obama before elections:
Dream Act now, CIR within 100 days.

Obama during the first 2 years:
We need CIR repeated like a mantra, one vote for Dream Act in the lame duck session. Nothing when Dems were holding an ultra-majority. 1.5 years wasted on ACA.

Deportations reach record high.

Obama during the following 2 years:
-crickets- until the election season where immigrant groups were outright tired of nothing being done and nearly denounced him.
"Welllll.... I guess I cooooould do DACA. I swear its humanitarian and not meant to keep my ass in office".

Deportations still at record high.

Following 2 years:
Senate votes on CIR.
House as expected does nothing.
Obama delays further EA for over a year. Does it, it covers a relatively limited number of people, whereas he could definitely do more, he doesn't.

Deportations still at record high. I think that the government shut down in October of 2013 did more to halt active deportation proceedings than Obama did.

What will happen during the next two years:
Probably nothing. He'll go on univision as, of course, is tradition to say that we need CIR and that's about that.


You'd think that the first black guy in the white house would be so ultra liberal that Republicans will cringe just from hearing his name for years to come, but what we got is a complete centrist.

There is really a giant real of possibilities out there to pardon immigration violations, to grant parole, nunc pro tunc parole (essentially retroactively pardon someone into US deleting all their illegal presence), nunc pro tunc change of status, to completely gut IIRCA 1996, but it is simply not being done.

One of the things I hoped he'd announce in the last EA would be Parole-in-place to non-military relatives, didn't happen. He knows it exists, and he simply doesn't want it extended, even if it would be easier to justify than deferred action for people who happened to spawn offspring in US, and it would actually do more since EWI parents could then adjust status that way, instead of playing the pointless AP roulette.

You keep saying deportations at record high as if it's a bad thing. Who was getting deported? How many dreamers do you know how got deported? It was mostly criminals and a few unlucky people who were at the wrong time and place. In the Bush years, every week there would be a work place raid. When was the last time you heard of one of those?

I think the anger at Obama is misplaced and if it comes from those who are enjoying DACA already, it's hypocritical and dishonest.

This is what I been thinking since DACA and its coming from these self entitled dream puppies, small tiger cubs. Like, DACA wasnt enough to the nothing of a status you had before? Because thats what you had, you had nothing but w/e education, if you had that. DACA let you finally use your degree you ever so hard work for it, it allow you to provide a better means to your family, if not that, at least it has allow you to get a driver license and if thats not enough, it has allowed you to visit your dying (or sick or w/e excuse you made up) family members. I read a lot of "DACA isnt enough!!" there was even some person here who wrote an article saying Obama hadn't done enough or something like that.

Remember all the presidents before Obama who did nothing but make our situation worse?

Band-aid on a torn off arm. Hey, it's something.