Teens Take On Speaker Boehner On Immigration Reform

On Wednesday morning, two teenagers approached House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) at a diner to tell him that their families had been separated by the broken immigration system. Carmen Lima, 13, and Jennifer Martinez, 16, both asked Boehner to advance immigration reform and he responded that although he was committed to moving the bill, it would not “be an easy path forward.”

CARMEN: You’re a father right?… So how would you feel if you had to tell your kids at the age of ten that you were never coming home?

BOEHNER: That wouldn’t be good.

CARMEN: That’s what happened to me. I thought I was never going to see my dad again because [inaudible]. And I cried so hard when my mom told me that, at the age of ten.

BOEHNER: Well, I’m trying to find some way to get this thing done. It’s, uh, you know, not easy—not gonna be an easy path forward. But I’ve made it clear since the day after the election that I’m going to get this done.

CARMEN: So we can count on your vote for immigration reform?

BOEHNER: I will try to find a way to move the bill forward. Thanks.

Read more here: http://thinkprogress.org/immigration...boehner-diner/

He dodged the question at the end like a boss.

Well um the best of luck

at least its gaining momentum.

I like this approach. It's not rude, it's not fake, and it puts a personal face on the struggle. It probably won't get him to bring the bill up to a vote but maybe late at night when he's going to bed after leaving his tanning bed, he'll toss and turn for an extra 2 minutes.

^ This.

What's DA user doing in that dinner.

DA User will say this is good news.

We can only

Great job to them, I'm all the way in the West coast so I'm not as exposed to east coast politics and our West movement doesn't have access to east coast politicians like locals do there; it's nice to see such direct action. Just know that even if there are haters around you, you can have 1,000,000 fans from miles away.