"We didn't raise the Statue of Liberty with her back to the world."

[sheshe2]

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"We are, and always will be, a nation of immigrants." —President Obama: http://go.wh.gov/VJpNqc #ImmigrationAction

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Pres Obama: "We didn't raise the Statue of Liberty with her back to the world." #ImmigrationAction




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President signs two Memoranda associated with his Executive Actions on immigration on Air Force One today


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What you look like when you use the power the American ppl entrusted to you to live up to our values. @TheObamaDiary


12:33 PM - 21 Nov 2014


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"Christian" #tcot going nuts because people get health care and immigrants will be treated as humans. Just like Jesus said.


2:11 PM - 21 Nov 2014


john miller @deaconmill
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So I guess Obama has now poisoned the well of cooperation with GOP. You know, the well GOP filled in and covered with concrete 6 yrs ago.


9:10 PM - 20 Nov 2014




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Obamacare - and now #ImmigrationAction?

How's that hopey changie thing working out for ya?

Majestically, thank you!


10:17 PM - 20 Nov 2014

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LOL~ GOP!!! You lose and the President wins. You are being schooled by the master~

[seveneyes]

1. Exactly. America can handle a few hundred million more people before only the 1% have it comfortable

At this pace we will all be dead and gone before the middle class is extinct. No worries.

[sheshe2]

4. They are already here and they are already working.

How about we put them on the books so they pay taxes and receive healthcare. The tax payers are the ones that pick up all the ER visits for the uninsured, you know this right?

[seveneyes]

6. Exponential growth is only bad for the future

If procreation evolved as fast as atoms split, it would all be over in microseconds.

Like I said, we have nothing to worry about in our own selfish lifetimes.

[hunter]

22. How, exactly, does it matter where people are from?

We are all human beings sharing one planet.

If every job in the U.S.A. pays a comfortable living wage, and ALL workers, documented or not, are protected from abusive employers, then "taking away jobs" isn't really a concern, is it? Working supposedly makes the world a better place for all of us, otherwise why work?

People wouldn't come here if they couldn't find work here. Unfortunately, as things are now, employers are able to abuse immigrant workers and dispose of them whenever they are no longer useful or they start asserting their basic human rights.

I suspect some employers call immigration raids upon themselves so they can get a fresh desperate hungry workforce. Pay the fine, get on with business.

In a just world any corporation that abuses workers would suffer a corporate death penalty. The shareholders would get nothing, and top executives and board members would have their assets seized and go to prison.

The documented or undocumented worker who was just cutting up chickens, picking strawberries, writing code, whatever, would at worst have to go back home or find another job here.

I think anyone who finds work here in the U.S.A. and pays their taxes deserves legal status and eventual citizenship. Otherwise our theories of opportunity, free markets, and capitalism are a cruel farce.

[seveneyes]

24. Birth control is the variable, not origin

Finite thought is trumped by uncontrolled growth. It's a math problem yet to be resolved.

[hunter]

25. You didn't answer my question.

Yes, I think easy access to birth control and sex education ought to be universal.

But the U.S.A. has a despicable history of racism.

We are still a white Christian Protestant English-speaking-only xenophobic untraveled ignorant fearful authoritarian and apartheid nation in so many ways.

[sheshe2]

28. Birth control is something the GOP is trying to make unaffordable...

And harder to get. Just like abortions.

Not sure where you are trying to go with this.

[seveneyes]

34. Irrationality does not need a logical conclusion

Humankind WILL meet its end, it's just a matter of time and how kind we are to each other getting there.

[sheshe2]

35. Profound!

And uninformative.

[seveneyes]

36. Information is free

Understanding takes a human touch.

[sheshe2]

38. Glad to see you are forthcoming in explaining yourself.

Goodnight, no further communication is necessary.

[ReRe]

26. Many of them are paying taxes...

... and getting nothing in return!

[Cha]

2. Mahalo, she!

[sheshe2]

7. Thanks Cha~

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Pace yourselves #tcot.


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[Cha]

11. I can muster a Kick!

[sheshe2]

17. Get some sleep Cha~

[Cha]

19. I can't, she..

I can't go back to sleep now.. too wired or something. I'll just have to ride it out until tonight. The noise just stopped. My friend got a hold of the manager and he went in and turned it off.

It's weird story and has been going on for awhile now.. this is just the latest. And, hopefully the last.

I'll be fine.. manana.

[sheshe2]

12. THEY'VE GOT NOTHING

WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) vowed Friday to push back against President Barack Obama's executive action shielding up to 5 million unauthorized immigrants from deportation, accusing him of sabotaging any chances of comprehensive legislative action to reform the immigration system.

The president announced Thursday his intentions to shield from deportation up to 4 million parents of American citizens and up to 1 million other people who live in the United States without proper documentation, prompting howls of rage from Republicans.

Boehner said he would not stand by and let Obama accomplish his plan, but did not say how or when.


"With this action, the president has chosen to deliberately sabotage any chance of enacting bipartisan reforms that he claims to seek. And as I told the president yesterday, he's damaging the presidency itself," Boehner said in a news conference outside his Capitol Hill office.

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Johnny needs to cut the crap. They have nothing, they never will have anything and it is past time for pretending they do!

Cha~

[Cha]

20. These two sure look the part of ugly villians, she.. unreal how their depravity shows all over

their personas.

[CTyankee]

3. great point!

The RW must hate the inscription

Give me me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses, yearning to breath free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

[awoke_in_2003]

13. and you know it galls them to no end...

that the Statue of Liberty was a gift from our friends in France.

[CTyankee]

14. OMG! France?

[awoke_in_2003]

15. Whenever idiots here at work...

start moaning about the French, I love to remind them that if it hadn't been for the French navy, the French selling us arms, and Holland financing a lot of it, we wouldn't exist as a country.

[TBF]

5. Many of my ancestors came over

pre-revolution from England (as early as 1640s), others from Germany and Poland during the 1800s. We were immigrants too. Solidarity.

[christx30]

37. The first member of my family to come to the US

was smuggled into the country in a coffin. Grandparents loved to tell that story. Made the imaginations of the grandkids go crazy.

[Spazito]

8. Great OP!

Gotta love this tweet:

"john miller @deaconmill
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So I guess Obama has now poisoned the well of cooperation with GOP. You know, the well GOP filled in and covered with concrete 6 yrs ago."

Nailed it, Mr. Miller!

[sheshe2]

9. Oh yes, I loved that one Spazito!

He sure did nail it~

[Scootaloo]

10. I've always felt that immigration should be simple and straightforward

You have a background check that involves affirming your former allegiance and lack of criminal record. You put your name on a roll, swear yourself in as a US citizen, and here's your social security card.

Hell, that's still more strict than what most of our ancestors faced coming here- couldn't exactly run backgroudn check on every Jans Schubergruski coming in from Dntnonkchkr, Poland, could we?

[napkinz]

16. love it!

K&R!!!!!

[sheshe2]

18. napkinz~

[calimary]

21. Oh MAN this thread's a keeper!

So many magnificent tweets!

I've been wondering when the Statue of Liberty would be brought into the discussion! Especially that inscription on her pedestal.

Oh my my now the GOP has to condemn the Statue of Liberty, 'eh? Please proceed, assholes! Gee, teabaggers, I'm surprised you haven't tried to tear her down yet.

[sheshe2]

27. You are a keeper calimary~

Have no idea why I am restraining myself tonight, yet you get my point.

The Gop manta. S**ew you USA! F**k the people! Corporations are us! Tear down the Statue of Liberty, cause to us liberty is a dirty word. They are now and forever only for themselves.

[Cha]

23. Just had to post this, she..

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President Obama: success after success after success.
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Btw, our President's AG, Eric Holder, has a statement on the Missouri Gov's "escalation" of the crisis in Ferguson before the Ruling..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014949785

[sheshe2]

30. Sucess after Sucess after Sucess!

poor poor GOP~

Checkmate!

Now I want some pie Cha!

[Cha]

32. I bet Pres Obama will share, she..

[sheshe2]

33. Love that picture!

Ya, he would share~

Cha

[DrBulldog]

29. Frankly I'm surprised that today the Statue of Liberty isn't bent over ...

... with her skirt up mooning the rest of the world. That landmark has become the world's largest symbol of blatant hypocrisy.

[w0nderer]

31. YEPPERS dats who i campaigned for

A president i didn't vote for - because I'm not allowed to
A president i campaigned for - because i AM allowed to and i like 'democratic traditions' (cia factbook usa==republic with strong democratic traditions)
A president i Respect - because in some cases (expect less than 50% out of politicians) he comes through


and yes I can't vote because i'm a LEGAL alien (LPR, Legal Permanent Resident, ie..i can serve in the army (or be called up), i have to pay taxes, i can't cash in on most welfare or vote(except for some unclear local elections which still might mess up the immigration status so..you know..just keep clear) , i consider that fair till I'm a citizen )

[Quayblue]

39. thanks sheshe

I'm going next door to my neighbor tomorrow and talking to her. unfortunately I have limited Spanish skills and she, little English, but we still dance and cry together every so often. she's been harassed horrifically and I'm gonna make sure she's knows she good now.

that's what people do.

peace to you

[sheshe2]

41. You are so welcome Quayblue!

Dancing and crying can bridge all~

[freshwest]

40. K&R

[sheshe2]

43. ...

[Odin2005]

42. K&R. Anti-Immigrant is ANTI-AMERICAN!

[sheshe2]

44. Thank you Odin! nt

[Cha]

45. So I guess Obama has now poisoned the well of cooperation with GOP. You know, the well gop filled..

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So I guess Obama has now poisoned the well of cooperation with GOP. You know, the well GOP filled in and covered with concrete 6 yrs ago. BAM!

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