DREAM Act Portal Forum - White House: Obama won't give up on DREAM ACT

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Originally Posted by Hope (Post 201592)

You're the one who doesn't understand. It is his fault, the latino population and others voted for him because he was intent on passing the DREAM Act. The only one who can put pressure on the 5 Dems and Reps is Obama. He chose to put his weight behind the Healthcare bill, but shied away from the cause he gave us his word he would push for.

You do know Latino are 11%-12% of the population don't you? Now take out the under 18 in that group your probably down to about 11 million adults. Now add up what is more important to you if every Latino voted compare 11 million compared to the number of white and black citizens in this country 80% do you put the illegal Latino issues first or do you put the economy and issues that affect 80% first. Its the Economy and jobs Jesus Christ there is 26% unemployment in the African American community and you think Dream should go before getting some jobs going for everyone. This is a economy issue lets get facts straight stop pointing fingers from republicans to democrats to the president its like we dont want to listen to the facts we want them not to matter and this is why we lost. 40 million unemployed legal American citizens out of work and we think there going to pass something that will increase that overwhelming number more by giving non citizens jobs. Nothing is going happen till this economy gets better this should be our call to get what we want what can we do to improve the condition of this economy so we might get noticed. Instead we keep threatening politicians and pissing everyone off and telling people what we got to have and all this non sense it does nothing but lose us ground.