National Review Online – by Joel Gehrke
President Obama reminded Democratic donors that “our future rests” on the success of people brought to the United States illegally as children, who would qualify for citizenship if Congress had passed the DREAM Act.
“About 30 to 40 percent of the kids in this school, by the way, are DREAM kids,” Obama said Wednesday evening. “You wouldn’t know it looking at them, because they are as American as apple pie. But every single one of these kids, you might not be able to tell the difference, but a whole bunch of them — they’re worried about whether or not they’re going to be able to finance their college education of their immigrant status. They’re worried about whether, in fact, this country that they love so deeply loves them back and understands that our future rests on their success. Why wouldn’t we want to give them that certainty that you are part of the fabric of this nation, we’re counting on you, and we’re going to make sure you succeed? Why wouldn’t we want to do that?”
Obama made the comments at a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee fundraiser in Massachusetts, in reference to students at Worcester Tech. “So these young people are graduating, ready to go to college, but also certified nurses, EMT folks. Many of them are choosing to join the military and will contribute to our country in this way,” he said. “And looking out as I was speaking to them and then shaking their hands, and giving them hugs and high-fives and all the things that kids do on a graduation, I thought to myself: How could we not want to invest in these kids?”
Vice President Joe Biden also said Wednesday that increasing immigration would boost the economy, though he extended the argument beyond the DREAM Act kids.
“We need it badly from a purely — purely economic point of view,” Biden said Tuesday, per The Hill. It’s an argument that corporations tend to support, but the White House push comes as Congress is still coming to terms with the shock of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R., Va.) losing his primary to Dave Brat, a political novice supported by local Tea Party activists who faulted Cantor for being out of touch with the district.
Cantor’s support for DREAM Act-style legislation, which he announced a few months after the 2012 election, inspired conservative radio host Laura Ingraham to rally grassroots voters against him.
“Now, Ingraham is setting her sights on 2016: In particular, she wants to ensure that the Republican nominee is not cut from Cantor’s cloth,” National Review Online’sEliana Johnson reported. “Brat’s victory, she says, is a step in the right direction: ‘Everybody that’s hoping and praying for a Jeb Bush run, they should spend a lot of time focusing on what just happened in Virginia.’”
Obama’s team is pushing back against the idea that immigration sank Cantor. “Cantor’s problem wasn’t his position on immigration reform, it was his lack of a position,” Obama advisor Dan Pfeiffer tweeted on election night, citing the success of Senator Lindsay Graham (R., S.C.). “Graham wrote and passed a bill and is winning big.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/380193/obama-our-future-rests-success-dream-kids-joel-gehrke
“President Obama reminded Democratic donors that “our future rests” on the success of people brought to the United States illegally as children, who would qualify for citizenship if Congress had passed the DREAM Act.”
Once again, where is our military? Why are the people of DC, Maryland and Virginia alone not raiding the White House and hanging this psycho for high treason and sedition?
Complictit. They are complicit. Not all, no, some are mere morons unaware of what is happening to this nation.
OUR future rests on the maintenance of our freedom tools that are well oiled and LOADED!!! Make no mistake you commie b%st@rds. YOU WILL LOOSE. YOU ARE OUT NUMBERED!!
“Sometimes a Shepherd must tend to his ?” 🙂
ABSOLUTELY BROTHER. 😡
“And at times ?” 😆
Yup NC
A large percentage of the illegal immigrant “kids” are not kids at all. Many look to be in their 20’s and some even in their 30’s. The flood of “kids” from central america is organized by this administration to help push for legalizing the illegals. Take a look at their pictures: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2656622/Caged-diseased-Shocking-pictures-child-illegal-immigrants-flooding-border-Joe-Biden-calls-unrelenting-stream-migrants.html
Yep. It’s all so Barry, Joey and company can push for Amnesty on the illegals and grant his private army to control and takeover the U.S.
Hang ’em all!!
Future Democratic votes for Texas… Feds will give them everything free so they can vote to keep the Democrats in power.
The ‘Dreamers’. They leave their third world tyrannies to come to the US for free ride everything. Once the usurper and the obedient Congress allow amnesty / Dream Act those same refugees will find themselves in the same position they traveled long and far to escape.