Thursday, January 22, 2015

Huffington Post: Obama Tells Congress Not To Fight Past Battles On Immigration Again

The Huffington Post notes that President Obama only mentioned the word "immigration" twice in his State of the Union address last night, and didn't make the impassioned pleas he has made in past years for immigration reform. Instead, his message was that Congress should stop fighting him on his executive actions on immigration, stating "If we're going to have arguments, let's have arguments—but let's make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country...Yes, passions still fly on immigration, but surely we can all see something of ourselves in the striving young student, and agree that no one benefits when a hardworking mom is taken from her child, and that it's possible to shape a law that upholds our tradition as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants."

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