DREAM Act Supporters Tell Obama To Quit Campaigning On DREAM Act

[The Northerner]

WASHINGTON -- Immigration advocacy groups have a message for President Barack Obama: Stop using the DREAM Act to ask for campaign money unless you can deliver relief from deportation for undocumented youth.

United We DREAM, a group of young people pushing for the bill, started a petition last week asking the president to remove discussions of the bill in campaign literature and fundraising emails unless he is willing to use his executive power to block deportations for DREAM Act-eligible students.

The DREAM Act would grant legal status to some undocumented young people who came to the U.S. as children and are now looking to attend college or join the military.

Although Obama has said repeatedly that he supports the DREAM Act and that undocumented students are not the focus of his immigration enforcement plans, some are nonetheless caught up in a deportation system that removed more than 390,000 people from the country last year.

On Wednesday, a group of DREAM Act supporters gathered outside an Obama fundraiser in Boston to protest against the president's deportation policies.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/19/dream-act-supporters-tell_n_864427.html

[bluestateguy]

1. He supports it. It passed the House.

He called upon it to be passed publicly several times.

You can redirect your anger to the obstructionist minority (almost all Republicans) in the Senate if you do not like the outcome.

[dennis4868]

4. Why is it....

that Obama always gets blamed for the broken congress on issue after issue by the left....in all my years I have never seen anything like it.

[EFerrari]

6. Did you read the OP?

They are protesting Obama's deportations.

[FarLeftFist]

2. Someone should alert these people.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. I'm tired of hearing Obama being solely blamed for everything

It would do a lot more good IMHO to make sure the right people are elected to Congress- you know, the body that actually makes the laws instead of just expecting Obama to deliver on everything. :shrug:

[dennis4868]

5. Right....

Just like many people here ag DU forget that first CONGRESS has to approve a bill before Obama can sign it....

[EFerrari]

7. Except this OP is about protesting his deportation policy

not Congress's deportation policy.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. The law is still the law though

and it would be stupid IMHO to tell him to give it up on the Dream Act (which is supposed to make things better for immigrants) just because some people don't like it.

[EFerrari]

10. The protest isn't about the law but about how this administration

is enforcing it.

It's not a simple problem, for sure, and Obama didn't create it. But his administration is going far beyond Bush in deportations and not only deportations of criminals at all as it has claimed.

[dkf]

8. They don't want him going around the country trying to sell the Dream Act?

Funny way to build support.

[JTFrog]

11. +1 n/t