2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhile Seeking Support, Obama Faces a Frustrated Hispanic Electorate
As President Obama heads into the main stretch of his re-election campaign, his immigration policies have produced few gains for Latinos, whose votes could be crucial for him in November.
The Department of Homeland Security reported last week that only about 4,400 deportations of illegal immigrants had been halted nationwide under a major initiative started a year ago.
In a strategic shift, immigration authorities had said they would focus on deporting criminals and people who cheated the visa system, while sparing illegal immigrants with clean records. But after an administration review of more than 288,000 deportation cases before the immigration courts, the total suspended by prosecutors so far is less than 2 percent.
That is not the only policy that has been a jarring disappointment for Latinos. Mr. Obama, who easily won a majority of their votes in 2008, promised to move in his first year to overhaul the immigration system and to give legal status to illegal immigrants.
full: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/us/politics/obama-faces-a-frustrated-hispanic-electorate.html
Well, as for the legal status, Latinos should not be mad at Obama but rather the dimbulbs in Congress obstructing the DREAM Act.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)article ginning up support problems that, largely, don't exist?
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Arkana
(24,347 posts)More handwringing outrage over a problem that isn't actually a problem.