Obama today traveled with Mexican First Lady Margarita Zavala to the New Hampshire Estates Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland, where a second-grade girl asked her about how immigration reform would impact her family.
“My mom… she says that Barack Obama is taking everybody away that doesn’t have papers,” the girl said, sitting cross-legged on the gymnasium floor with her classmates, while Obama sat in a folding chair next to them. A large blue banner hanging behind them, adorned with the American and Mexican flags, read, “Welcome, Mrs. Obama! Bienvenidos, Sra. Zavala!”
“Yeah, well that’s something that we have to work on, right?” Obama said. “To make sure that people can be here with the right kind of papers, right? That’s exactly right.”
The little girl continued, “But my mom doesn’t have any papers.”
Obama replied, “Well, we have to work on that. We have to fix that, and everybody’s got to work together in Congress to make sure that happens.”
President Obama today said he agreed with Mexican President Felipe Calderon that the Arizona law, which makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally, could be applied in a discriminatory fashion. He called it a “misdirected expression of frustration over our broken immigration system.”
Uncomfortable!
fallar
“Well, we have to work on that. We have to fix that,…”
Fix what? What exactly is broken? That her mom came here illegally and had children?
I’ve got a way to fix this. Bring back all our troops from overseas and invade Mexico!!
Make Mexico the southern state of the US. After all, isn’t that what all these illegals want, to enjoy American prosperity? Do you know how much the US props up the Mexican economy by sending Dollars to families in Mexico?
(Let’s see who can spot the sarcasm)
@Ah_Yea – Make Mexico the southern state of the US.
Can we do the same to Canada?
I hate hearing all their smug newscasters thinking they are soo much better.
We could help “liberate” them from the French oppressionists that has enslaved the honest English speaking people; forcing them to speak french in order to get jobs or even order a meal!!
We must save our northern brothers and sisters! =)
- Ben
It’s interesting how the media has cleaned up the child’s grammar in their later reports… The initial transcript of the exchange included a number of [sic] comments where the child used incorrect grammar, wrong tenses, etc. It’s almost as if they are trying to make the child and mom more American and English…
#3. Didn’t we already try invading Canada. Did not end well.
#3,
Ok!
Re#3,”I hate hearing all their smug newscasters thinking they are soo much better.”
Mouring, there aren’t any newscasters in Canada doing that. It’s your own subconscious telling you that Canada is better… because you realize it is.
since when does the word “illegal” mean that they are immigrants? Seems to me that people who immigrate to this country LEGALLY should be the people pissed off — why’d they have to go through all that INS bullsh*t? Costs mucho dinero to apply, and then tons of time to go through the process, and potentially be rejected because…oh maybe they smoked pot 20years ago, and were cited…. so much better to swim across the Rio Grande and poop out a few kids illegally, and then let the Presidents wife say “we’ll fix that”.
So much easier to come up here illegally, especially if you have murder, rape, and other arrests in Mexico…than try and come legally.
We should be supporting Arizona for asking that the federal laws be enforced!!
Mexico murders people illegally entering their country. I’m just say’n.
#8, diane,
Most people feel just the same as you.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/13/the-73-fringe-that-supports-az-immigration-law/
On a more serious note, this child does represent a conundrum.
Do we deport the mom and leave the child here? Do we deport both?
This is where Bush’s plan came in.
Seal the border to keep future illegals out, but allow those who are settled with good employment to become citizens.
This plan doesn’t break up families and allows those who contribute to continue to contribute and be a positive part of our society.
But since Bush proposed it, the plan must be evil, Right??
So what’s Obama’s plan. Cater to Mexico? Do nothing?
Plan B on immigration- Destroy the US economy so that any incentive to enter the US is eliminated.
I get sick to my stomach watching Obama, Biden, and Congress applaud the President of Mexico Felipe Calderon denigrate Arizona for enforcing US federal law. Hey, Calderon, go back to taco bell and enforce your own laws, you two-faced jerk. Yeah, those Federales are doing such a great job keeping the drug cartels in check, right? And you shoot illegal immigrants to Mexico? Let’s hope you never come to Arizona. I doubt that loser Odumba would be welcome in Mexico or Arizona either. Maybe he should go to Mexico and force them into bankruptcy too.
Why wasn’t this child arrested and deported?
Isn’t that the law?
Why isn’t it being enforced?
Make them legal and make them pay like every American. Ilegal is ilegal. Look up the definition. Arizona is simply at its end waiting for the Feds to do anything. We don’t have hundreds of thousands of Germans or other groups coming into America illegally. We have Mexican’s do this. That is why the Arizona law is on the books. That is the problem. If the Feds would do something about it. How about telling the Mexican president to put up or shut up. Where is his boarder patrol???
Mouring,
Of course Canada is MUCH better than Mexico. Then again, that really does not say much about Canada.
Ah_Yea said “Do we deport the mom and leave the child here? Do we deport both?”
Since when do we worry about breaking up families when prosecuting criminals? If someone invaded your home and robbed you, do you ask the judge not to put the robber in jail if the robber has family?
In the case the deportation, these criminal invaders actually are much better off b/c they have a choice to prevent their family from breaking up. They don’t have to leave the kids behind. They can always take the kids with them. If they choose to leave their kids behind, it is not us that break them up. They decided to break up their own family themselves. Besides, I thought all the pro-illegal Mexicans love to tell us how proud they are about Mexico? Why wouldn’t you want to raise your kids in a wonderful country like Mexico if you truly think it’s so great?
tigerjuju you raise a lot of good points.
Possibly being hard nosed and deporting a few families might get the message across that we are finally serious.
The big fly in the ointment is the law that anyone born in the US is instantly a US citizen.
So while we can deport the mother, we cannot legally deport the child.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright_citizenship_in_the_United_States_of_America
And this is happening all over America. Millions of illegal people of every race and religion are invading us. They are now gaining superiority of numbers and are influencing our politics. And there are millions more wanting to cross the border!
#18–Ah Yea==what exactly is the nature and consequences of this big fly?
Parents rightfully have a big impact on all their kiddies. If they cross borders illegally to have birth in the USA and then they get deported, they simply have another choice: What is best for my kiddie? To stay with the family and return to Mexico, or to stay in the USA and be brought up by strangers?
I know what I would do. Maybe Pedro will inform us on where most of the worlds flys are?