Saturday, November 22, 2014

AP / Yahoo News: Obama: From 'deporter in chief' to 'gracias' (The whole thing was a fabrication and a setup. As for the 'deporter in chief,' Homeland Security's own figures showed that the administration achieved its 'record number of deportations' only by newly counting routine border turn-backs as full-fledged deportations.)


Obama: From 'deporter in chief' to 'gracias'

President Barack Obama speaks about immigration at Del Sol High School, in Las Vegas, Friday, Nov. 21, 2014. The president unveiled expansive...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's carefully cultivated Hispanic coalition was starting to splinter.

Immigration legislation was going nowhere. Deportations under Obama were nearing 2 million. And the president was resisting calls to use executive action.
Then in early March, frustration from usually reliable supporters seemed to reach a breaking point when a prominent immigration advocate derided Obama as "deporter in chief."
The White House scrambled. Obama summoned three Hispanic lawmakers to the Oval Office ...