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FLASHBACK: Obama Says Illegal Immigrants Threaten Blue-Collar Americans
MRC TV ^ | November 18, 2014 | Monica Sanchez

Posted on 11/18/2014 10:17:29 AM PST by Maceman

In his 2006 autobiography entitled “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream,” then-Senator Barack Obama argues that an influx of illegal immigrants into the United States “threatens to depress further the wages of blue-collar Americans and puts strains on an already overburdened safety net.”

“There’s no denying that many blacks share the same anxieties as many whites about the wave of illegal immigration flooding our southern border. The number of immigrants added to the labor force every year is of a magnitude not seen in this country for over a century.

“If this huge influx of largely low-skill workers provides some benefits to the economy as a whole, it also threatens to depress further the wages of blue-collar Americans and puts strains on an already overburdened safety net.”

His claims shockingly resemble those whom [sic] oppose the President’s impending executive amnesty, which would effectively shield 5 million illegal immigrants from deportation and provide many of them with work permits.

[Hear audio clip at link].


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: executiveamnesty; obamaillegals
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The last paragraph at the link obviously has word editing problems. I think it probably was supposed to read something like: "His claims shockingly resemble those made by people who oppose the President’s impending executive amnesty, which would effectively shield 5 million illegal immigrants from deportation and provide many of them with work permits."

But even if the syntax is garbled, the point is spot on.

1 posted on 11/18/2014 10:17:29 AM PST by Maceman
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To: Maceman

That’s a good one.

Here’s another classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-1SMV3ok58&t=0m12s


4 posted on 11/18/2014 10:24:06 AM PST by CodeJockey
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To: F15Eagle

Some laws cannot be broken. Gravity and the law of supply and demand.
If I were a conspiracy nut, I’d call this the Cloward-Piven method of bringing down the late great United States. Breaking trust in the system goes a long way in our destruction.


5 posted on 11/18/2014 10:29:59 AM PST by griswold3 (I was born here in America. I will die here in a third world country. Obalarma succeeded.)
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OK, this needs to be made into an Ad right now, and played extensively, followed by the number to the switchboard at the WH for Amerians to call and express their opposition to Obama’s Exec. Order for Amnesty.


7 posted on 11/18/2014 10:36:53 AM PST by Din Maker (I've always been crazy, but, that's the only thing that's kept me from going insane.)
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To: F15Eagle
And of course, NOW, he’s acting otherwise....

The blue-collar Americans are of no future use to him...

8 posted on 11/18/2014 10:40:44 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: F15Eagle

Seeing as now ‘Brown is the new black’ and 0 has thrown his black base under the proverbial bus, the question is why? Do the dems consider the black angle played out? Or is smooching up to the latino demographic by ‘importing’ millions more brown compadres his tactic? If so, you’d think allowing all those imports to become citizens at the drop of a pen a slap to the face of all who earned citizenship the hard, legal way. OR, are the dems that stupid to not have forseen that last one? It’s enough to cause a brain cramp...


9 posted on 11/18/2014 10:40:58 AM PST by W. (We won. Get over it! Or not--I don't care--because we won!)
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To: F15Eagle

No he isn’t. He is acting like he wants to destroy blue-collar Americans.


11 posted on 11/18/2014 10:41:49 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: F15Eagle

Makes sense...


14 posted on 11/18/2014 10:45:25 AM PST by W. (We won. Get over it! Or not--I don't care--because we won!)
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To: Maceman

Obama has already spilled the beans on a sound bite the other night about the real reason he’s doing this insane “amnesty” , namely, once he does it, the main issue for the 2016 Presidential election will be that a Republican president will undo Obama’s EOs, whereas a Democrat one will uphold them. Obama is hoping the perpetuation of his amnesty is sufficient to get another Democrat president.


15 posted on 11/18/2014 10:46:34 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Maceman

The number of lies, scandals, destructive actions by the hero of benghazi is almost overwhelming.


16 posted on 11/18/2014 10:46:54 AM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: Maceman
I think that the President should debate himself no the immigration reform question.
17 posted on 11/18/2014 10:57:05 AM PST by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: Maceman

I’ve been harping on this for years. Why GOP leaders don’t sieze on this is beyond comprehension.


18 posted on 11/18/2014 11:08:04 AM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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Let’s see if Blacks wake the hell up after Obama grants Amnesty to 4 million low-wage, job-stealing, illegal immigrants.


19 posted on 11/18/2014 11:20:06 AM PST by TexasCajun
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FLASHBACK: Obama Says Illegal Immigrants Threaten Blue-Collar Americans

Back then, YES. Now in the bizarro world of caliph Hussein, 0bamabots no longer work, but only collect benefits, so now, NO.

20 posted on 11/18/2014 12:00:27 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (OK. Now How many votes do we need to IMPEACH and REMOVE the bastard?)
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