Michelle Obama Urges Latinos to push for Immigration Bill

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http://www.teapartytribune.com/2011/02/12/michelle-obama-urges-latinos-to-push-for-immigration-bill/


First lady Michelle Obama says immigration reform has been “at the top” of her husband’s agenda but is urging the Latino community to help push immigration legislation, such as the Dream Act, in the future.
“There wasn’t one single Republican that voted for the DREAM Act, not one,” the first lady said in an interview set to air Sunday on Univision’s “Al Punto” with Jorge Ramos. “So I urge the Latino community, he needs help, he’s got to have Republicans and Democrats in Congress who are going to step up.”
The interview for the Spanish-language show was conducted in English.
Making rare policy remarks on the show, the first lady said that if an immigration bill is on President Barack Obama’s desk “he is going to sign it.”
“But it’s got to get through Congress, he can’t do it alone,” she said.
Obama said her husband has had immigration reform “from the minute he thought about running for this office.”
“He is, he has talked about it at every State of the Union address that he’s given and he pushed hard, I think, as he said, the greatest disappointment in this last legislative year is that the DREAM Act didn’t get passed, that immigration got pushed aside,” she said. “But people have to know that the President can’t pass immigration reform without the support of Congress and we don’t have that.”

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http://www.teapartytribune.com/2011/02/12/michelle-obama-urges-latinos-to-push-for-immigration-bill/


First lady Michelle Obama says immigration reform has been “at the top” of her husband’s agenda but is urging the Latino community to help push immigration legislation, such as the Dream Act, in the future.
“There wasn’t one single Republican that voted for the DREAM Act, not one,” the first lady said in an interview set to air Sunday on Univision’s “Al Punto” with Jorge Ramos. “So I urge the Latino community, he needs help, he’s got to have Republicans and Democrats in Congress who are going to step up.”
The interview for the Spanish-language show was conducted in English.
Making rare policy remarks on the show, the first lady said that if an immigration bill is on President Barack Obama’s desk “he is going to sign it.”
“But it’s got to get through Congress, he can’t do it alone,” she said.
Obama said her husband has had immigration reform “from the minute he thought about running for this office.”
“He is, he has talked about it at every State of the Union address that he’s given and he pushed hard, I think, as he said, the greatest disappointment in this last legislative year is that the DREAM Act didn’t get passed, that immigration got pushed aside,” she said. “But people have to know that the President can’t pass immigration reform without the support of Congress and we don’t have that.”

What the long armed orangutan seems to be forgetting is that the shvartza President had almost 2 years to get all this Latino legislation passed since he and his Domocrap party controlled the entire ball of wax... If this was so important to him why did he just not get it done... Could it be that support for this sort of legislation in the ranks of the DNC are just not what its cracked up to be? Seems like this is an issue thats better used to malign Republicans with then actually to get passed through a one party vote.