Obama Calls for Immigration Reform amidst Record Levels of Deportations

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On Tuesday, President Obama visited the U.S.-Mexico border for the first time since his election in 2008 to deliver a major policy speech on comprehensive immigration reform. Meanwhile, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn and 38 New York state lawmakers have asked to withdraw from Obama’s flagship immigration enforcement program, Secure Communities, which has led to a record number of deportations.

We get reaction from Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, and Sunita Patel, staff attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights. "This enforcement-first-and-reform-later approach is just not working. And the states and Congress are losing patience at this point," Patel says. Acknowledging the political hurdle Obama faces in passing immigration reform with a divided Congress, Noorani notes, "The President has administrative or executive authority to better prioritize his enforcement resources, so that those who are causing real harm to our communities are the ones that are removed, not the students, not the families who are working hard."

Link: Video and Transcript (It's an excellent watch because Obama knows he needs Latino's and Hispanic Vote to win in 2012. It's worth listening to his speech clips here to see what he is saying..because whatever he says is what he will try to do if he gets a second term.

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/11/obama_calls_for_immigration_reform_amidst

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