Obama Pushes Congress To Make DREAM Act Priority in 2012

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/pol...ority-in-2012/

President Barack Obama said Congress should take one step toward overhauling the country's immigration system by passing the DREAM Act, a bill that would provide a path to citizenship for some children of undocumented migrants.

In an interview with Oakland, California-based Radio Bilingue that was rebroadcast Wednesday via Internet, Obama said his administration prioritizes the deportation of undocumented immigrants with criminal records and tries to avoid separating families.

The president said his administration is doing all it can to make the immigration system more humane, but that the most important priority is to fix the country's immigration laws.

He noted that during his State of the Union address last month he urged lawmakers to approve the DREAM Act, which passed the House of Representatives in December 2010 but has stalled in the Senate.

That bill would offer permanent residence to undocumented high school graduates who enlist in the U.S. Armed Forces or attend college.

Obama said that legislation should be a priority this year, although he lamented that hard-line Republicans were refusing to work in a bipartisan fashion on the issue.

According to the president, it is important that Congress listen to the Hispanic community and other communities affected by the country's broken immigration system.

An estimated 5,000 U.S. children whose parents have been deported or detained because of their immigration status have been placed in state foster care nationwide, according to an investigation made public late last year by the Applied Research Center.

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Obama has acknowledged that his administration's enforcement policies have caused the break-up of families in some instances and pledged to ensure that children are not separated from their parents without due process.

The president, who will seek re-election in November, supports a "comprehensive" immigration overhaul that would strengthen border security while simultaneously putting many of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States on a path to citizenship.

By contrast, most of the candidates vying for the Republican presidential nomination, who on Wednesday squared off in a debate in Arizona, oppose such a plan because they say it would provide amnesty for lawbreakers.

lol Where in the article does it say that Obama is pushing Congress to make Dream Act a priority in 2012?

I like Obama. This is his priority.

DA User, get theeeeee oooouuuutttaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa heeeree. Your optimism helps in no way. You never even back up your standing, so do us a favor, and stop raising false hopes.

That is why I have giving up in terms of hope. Now I spend my time worrying about school, work and getting cute girls. One cannot spend time hoping...

lol...don't push too hard Obama, you might hurt your back.

Obama doesn't care about you, he just sees you like a tool he will use to stay in office...kind of like with the environmentalists and that pipeline he stopped. As soon as he is reelected, he is gonna approve it....and he is never going to talk about immigration again.

CB124, sorry about that. Deleted the wrong post in the wrong thread.

lol let's see, what's the other choices we have? Mittens wants to self deport us. Santorum wants to convert us to Christianity and then deport us.