Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
President Obama wants to get tough on immigration\u00a0but those darn Republicans won\u2019t let him<\/a>.\u00a0 He has asked Congress to let him borrow an extra $3.7 Billion to beef up border patrols and speed up deportation cases.<\/p>\n
No mention of the President\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>career-long opposition to immigration reform<\/a>, his decision\u00a0<\/span>to sue Arizona in 2010<\/a>\u00a0to stop the state from getting tough on illegal immigrants, or his decision\u00a0<\/span>four weeks ago<\/a>\u00a0to stop deportations and give work permits to millions of student-aged illegal immigrants.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Here\u2019s where the money goes<\/a>, 90% for resettlement and public defenders so illegal immigrants can stay in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n
I wonder why Republicans don\u2019t believe this latest offer is sincere? \u00a0They must be racisssssssssssssss<\/span><\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
What other answer could there be?<\/p>\n
No, seriously – after almost six years, you’d think they could come up with another defamatory deflection…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: President Obama wants to get tough on immigration\u00a0but those darn Republicans won\u2019t let him.\u00a0 He has asked Congress to let him borrow an extra $3.7 Billion to beef up border patrols and speed up deportation cases. No mention of the President\u2019s\u00a0career-long opposition to immigration reform, his decision\u00a0to sue Arizona […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-sovereignty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45711,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45708\/revisions\/45711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}