Obama on Illegal Immigrants: 'Most of Them Are Not Making Trouble' ("Not smart" to go after 'em)

CNS News ^ | May 14, 2014 | Susan Jones

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Admitting that he was preaching to the choir," President Obama told law enforcement officers on Tuesday that they must add their voices to those who are demanding comprehensive immigration reform.

"It's estimated that over 80 percent of the folks who are here on an undocumented basis have been here 10 years or longer," Obama said. "You know, these are folks who are woven into the fabrics of our communities. Their kids are going to school with our kids. Most of them are not making trouble."

But recent press reports, including one from The Hill, noted that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials last year released 67,800 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions.

“ICE released 68,000 criminal aliens in 2013, or 35 percent of the criminal aliens encountered by officers. The vast majority of these releases occurred because of the Obama administration’s prosecutorial discretion policies,” Jessica Vaughn, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, wrote in a memo summarizing the DHS document.

"Most of them are not causing crimes," President Obama said on Tuesday, "and yet, we put them in this untenuous position, and it creates a situation in which your personnel, who have got to go after gang-bangers and need to be going after violent criminals and deal with the whole range of challenges, and who have to cooperate with DHS around our counterterrorism activities -- you've got to spend time dealing with somebody who has not caused any other trouble other than the fact that they were trying to make a living for their families. That's just not a good use of our resources. It's not smart. It doesn't make sense.

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"So I know I'm preaching to the choir here. You wouldn't be here if you didn't agree with us that this is time for us to -- to go ahead and get moving."

Obama said passing immigration reform legislation is "important to our economic future" and to our "cultural future," and he urged the law enforcement officers to join other groups in pressing House Republicans to take up an immigration reform bill.

"But we've got this narrow window. The closer we get to the midterm elections, the harder it is to get things done around here."

Obama said immigration reform has to get done in the next two or three months, and he said support from the law enforcement community "lends this overall effort great credibility."

He repeated that any bill he signs must include "a firm but fair pathway to earn citizenship for those who live in the shadow."

[plain talk]

Mr President - is it true you let over a hundred murderers go free?

[olezip]

"It's estimated that over 80 percent of the folks who are here on an undocumented basis have been here 10 years or longer," Obama said. "You know, these are folks who are woven into the fabrics of our communities. Their kids are going to school with our kids. Most of them are not making trouble."

President Obama has made a couple of important points. One is that most of them are not making trouble. Another is that they have been here for ten or more years. So there is no urgency to pass amnesty. This group of hard working, tax paying, law abiding (except immigration law), people can continue on "auto pilot" until after we secure our borders, deport the convicted criminals, and those with no skills and no jobs.

After securing our borders and stopping the flow of illegal immigrants into this country, we can come up with a plan to legalize the illegal aliens in a way that is acceptable to those legal immigrants who waited in line.

President Obama should support securing our borders, and then take whatever time is necessary to come up with comprehensive immigration reform that is acceptable to both those who waited and the American people.

[Charlemagne on the Fox]

"You know, these are folks who are woven into the fabrics of our communities. Their kids are going to school with our kids. Most of them are not making trouble."

WHAT is it with Barry and his use of "folks"? Is this some poll tested word which is supposed to make him seem folksy?

[GOPJ]

For Obama they’re not making trouble... he lives in the freakin’ White House... Other liberal elites live in safe buildings and houses with expensive security systems... Jeb Bush isn’t worried either...

Too bad there’s millions and millions of us who are NOT elites...

[Amagi]

ALL illegal immigrants are lawbreakers by definition, and that is trouble enough and shows an inherent disrespect for the Rule of Law, a trait they share with Obama.
If there's ONE report of a murder, rape, drunk driving homicide of a US citizen it is too many, and we know that such reports are constant and numerous.
They are NOT doing the jobs Americans won't do, government is destroying the private sector jobs, unemployment is rampant, and will only get worse as ObamaCare kicks in --- just one of the disastrous consequence of the government forced nationalization of the healthcare system without any positive benefit for the citizens, though the greedy political elites do get more power/control over the American People.
The illegal immigrants have been instrumental in destroying the economy of California. They are largely living off the public trough, causing hospitals along the border to shutdown because of financal stresses, educating children in public schools --- all so that Obama's Demmunist party can steal elections through vote fraud.
Just ANOTHER Obama lie.

On a personal note I have had two air conditioner units stolen by a band of illegal immigrants operating on the fringe of the construction industry.