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Immigration: Barack Obama Speaks in LA (2007)
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3 minutes and 47 seconds
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rpena on Oct 28, 2008
Barack Obama answers immigration questions in LA (2007)
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- I was one of the chief sponsors
- of comprehensive immigration reform.
- The basic idea was simple:
- Yes, we do have to have genuine border security,
- I don’t think anybody should argue with that…
- Yes, we have to work with Mexico
- and they have to take some responsibility
- to provide jobs for their people…
- And...they have to take some responsibility for the borders.
- We have to make sure that there’s economic development
- there as well as here for all workers.
- We have to work with employers
- so that in a non-discriminatory way
- they are enforcing rules in terms of who can work and who can’t.
- But, one of the things I always said is:
- Make sure this system better work
- in a way that doesn’t say…
- just because your last name is Rodriguez
- suddenly... you are not being hired.
- Which is an enormous problem.
- But those are all legitimate issues.
- And then we have to have a pathway
- for those people who are undocumented
- who are already here.
- Because the truth is…when people say:
- “Oh, send them all back.”
- We are not sending all of them back…
- That’s not…people aren’t telling the truth…
- We would have to use all our law enforcement resources.
- We couldn’t go after gang bangers,
- we couldn’t go after auto theft,
- we would have to use every single law enforcement officer
- to go around and round up folks
- who are working at restaurants and…
- Some of the same people who are talking about this stuff
- use undocumented workers themselves,
- right?
- And so, what we need to do…
- ...we need to be honest and say:
- Lets pull people out of the shadows,
- lets admit that they have broken the law
- so they have to pay a fine…
- I think that they should learn English
- because that would help them.
- But make sure again,
- don’t cut programs for... education programs
- and then say to people: “learn English.”
- And... they are going to have to go to the back of the line.
- They can’t get citizenship before people who
- are waiting patiently, legally to come here…
- And fix the broken legal immigration system.
- The backlog is so long that so many people ultimately just say:
- “You know what, I’m just going to come here illegally.”
- They can’t wait ten years…
- They might already been here,
- they might have met somebody,
- they might have gotten married,
- that person is a legal resident
- but they can’t sponsor them…
- Now they are supposed to go back for ten years and wait?
- People don’t do that.
- So we have to have a realistic and practical system...
- Strong border security,
- get people out of the shadows,
- and if we do that…
- then I think we can be a nation of laws
- and a nation of immigrants.
- Those two things are not incompatible,
- but it’s going to require leadership –unfortunately, I think –
- from the president of the United States.
- And right now, the language that came out
- during this last debate…
- There was some ugly language there…
- There was…
- It was more than just being concerned about the borders,
- It was… them versus us.
- And whenever we see people talking in terms of
- them versus us….
- that’s a dangerous thing.
- America is at its strongest when it’s just us.
- It’s not them versus us.
- And that’s the kind of leadership
- I want to provide as president
- of the United States of America.


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