Sunday, May 15, 2011

Truest statement of the week III

But when the soaring rhetoric was done, Obama closed with a weak punt of immigration reform back to Congress.

Yes We Can turned into No I Can't.

He refused to do what many Latino leaders have urged for months. He rejected using executive powers to soften the worst aspects of the government's crackdown on the nation's 11 million undocumented residents.

He turned his back on 1 million young people known as the DREAMERS. They are the high school and college kids brought to this country illegally by their parents.


-- Juan Gonzalez' "President Obama weakly punts immigration reform back to Congress" (New York Daily News).
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