President Obama acted boldly, using executive authority to help keep immigrant families together, stop fear in families of being split apart, and to create a humane and rational immigration system.
President Obama’s action does not fix all the problems. But it will temporarily make life for five million families safer, better and happier. And that is a big thing and a righteous thing.
For those of us who are native born workers, immigrant workers are neither your enemy nor your problem.
Immigrant workers are not sucking up all the wealth in this country. They are not busting our unions. They are not keeping wages at poverty levels. They are not the ones refusing to invest in the future of America. Immigrants are not those who refuse to raise the minimum wage. Immigrants have not offshored and outsourced our jobs.
They simply love their families and work hard every day. Any man or woman who comes to America to feed the kids, work hard, and sacrifice for a better life for their family is MY BROTHER and SISTER.
The 1 percent are the real and present threat to working people.
The radical right-wing are going nuts over President Obama’s executive action.
• They are attacking him.
• They will try to sue the President.
• They will try to impeach the President.
• They will threaten the President and all the rest of us.
• They will stomp their feet, hold their breath, scream and holler like the spoiled, privileged brats they are.
• They will say the President can’t do this without knowing American history and the fact that President Lincoln enacted the Emancipation Proclamation by executive action.
• The radical right-wing will use this action to distract us from the continued impoverishment of American workers and the destruction of the middle class.
Thanks for acting boldly President Obama. Now let’s take on Wall Street, the 1 percent, and the destruction of the middle class.
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