Hooray for Arizona #12--Obama's Opinion of the Bill

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From "Misguided" to "Poorly Conceived"


Apr-28-2010

President Obama last week called the new Arizona law "misguided." Now he says it's "poorly conceived." But what else did the president say about our illegal immigration crisis at a town hall in Iowa?



In the span of a single two-minute 'paragraph' at Tuesday's town hall, Our Supreme Leader managed to express two very different thoughts. He started out by calling Arizona's new immigration enforcement law "poorly conceived," likely offending the 70 percent of Arizona citizens who support the law. But in the next breath he seems to have found a bit of religion when it comes to comprehensive immigration reform, signaling a shift towards respect for our laws rather than blanket amnesty.



First he said: "This law that just passed in Arizona, which I think think is a poorly conceived law. You can try to make it really tough on people who look like they, quote, unquote look like illegal immigrants. One of the things that the law says is that local officials are allow to ask somebody who they have a suspicion might be an illegal immigrant for their papers -- but you can imagine if you are a Hispanic American in Arizona, your great, great grandparents may have been there before Arizona was even a state. But now suddenly if you don't have your papers and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you're going to be harassed, that's something that could potentially happen."



But then he said: "We can try to crack down, but the truth is, that 11 or 12 million folks, we're going to have to make them take responsibility for what they did. And the way to do that is to make them register, make them pay a fine, make them learn English, make them take responsibility for the fact that they broke the law. You make them get in the back of the line, but you also say 'If you do it the right way then you have a chance to become an American citizen.' If we have that kind of comprehensive approach, then we can once again be a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants."



Watch the president speak here:





That second part made no mention of border and port security, and no mention of the ongoing crisis in Mexico. But it is a welcome departure from the president's usual rhetoric. So is he simply paying lip service? Or do you believe President Obama's given up the quest for amnesty?

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