Speaking before the annual National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC President Obama said that while it may be tempting to think of immigrants as different, Americans ought not have “amnesia” about how they got here.
“It can be tempting to think that those coming to America today are somehow different from us. And we need to not get - have amnesia about how we populated this country,” President Obama said. He went on further to quote a verse in the Book of Deuteronomy about loving and embracing the stranger, “What this verse reminds us to do is to look at that migrant farmer and see our own grandfather disembarking at Ellis Island or Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, and to look at that young mother newly arrived in this country and see our own grandmother leaving Italy or Ireland or Eastern Europe in search of something better.”
“I'll keep doing my part. I'll keep pushing and working with Congress. But the only way we are going to get this done is by building a widespread movement for reform. That's why I'm asking you to keep preaching and persuading your congregations and communities,” the president said to the audience.
He went on to say that comprehensive reform is not only an “economic imperative or a security imperative, it's also a moral imperative.”
It is obvious that the President is creating momentum on the immigration Debate outside of Washington DC, coming out of the major speech he gave earlier this week in El Paso Texas and now this! But is this Obama's attempt to get the Immigration Reform wheels in gear or just another ploy of getting the Hispanic votes with the elections just around the corner?
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