“I believe that people who come here illegally should have to pay a fine, and pay their fair share of taxes, and get registered, and get right with the law and go to the back of the line before they earn citizenship”, Obama said.
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The poll showed in the past nine years Democrats have become more supportive of birthright citizenship, which is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, while Republicans have become slightly more opposed. “Leadership is not fanning the flames of intolerance and then acting all surprised when the fire breaks out”. Saying clearly inflammatory things and then saying thats not what I meant until you do it again and again and again, he said.
After listing his administration’s accomplishments including cutting the unemployment rate by half, providing health care to millions of Americans and targeted enforcement for children of immigrants, the president quipped, “All of which makes you wonder, why are a few of the folks running for my office so down on America?”
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best”, Trump said when he announced his candidacy.
President Obama blasted Republican presidential candidates for turning the clock back on issues like immigration reform, as he gave the keynote speech at an awards dinner for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
Obama, speaking at Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute on Thursday, did not specifically mention any candidates in his comments, but said “America’s greatness does not come from building walls”.
During Clinton’s brief introduction of chef José Andrés, Clinton was heckled by a young person claiming affiliation with activist group United We Dream before he was forcibly removed.
A few of the very same Republican politicians who championed immigration reform in the past, a few of whom sponsored these efforts, suddenly they want nothing to do with it, he said.
“They can’t hear the boos; but they can hear your votes”, he said.
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The statements by Trump, Cruz and a few others have made it even more hard for Republicans who are struggling to attract enough support from minorities, including Latinos, who overwhelmingly voted for Obama over his Republican rivals in the 2008 and 2012 elections.
