Obama’s moral failure on immigration

I'm a community organizer. Last week, I did something I never thought would be possible. I met with the president of the United States in the West Wing of the White House.President Barack Obama met for 75 minutes with 14 leaders from across the country to discuss immigration reform — and the destruction of some 1,100 immigrant
families a day through deportations carried out by his administration.


The meeting was tense, blunt and passionate. And there was a racial irony to our discussion. Our labor, faith and immigrant rights leaders included seven Latinos, three Asians and four whites. We were meeting with our country's first African-American president, the son of an Immigrant father. His senior advisers at the meeting included three
African-Americans (one the child of immigrants), a Latina, a Chinese-American woman and a white woman.There were years of intertwined friendships and relationships at the table, including my own with the president that began when he was a Chicago community organizer in 1986.


Yet, despite all of these ties, we were there to tell him about his moral failure on immigration, and his looming political catastrophe.Immigrant families are destroyed every day through deportations, Deepak Bhargava of the Center for Community Change, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit advocacy group, told Obama.


Latinos are angry and feel betrayed that the Obama White House has increased deportations and hasn't advanced reform, which could result in a nightmare for Democrats in the fall elections. READ FULL STORY

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