Anonymous Message to Barack Obama Do You See What We See
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Obama Tells Ferguson to Keep Protests Peaceful
President Barack Obama urged protestors in Ferguson to remain peaceful as they await the grand jury #39;s decision in this summer #39;s fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man. I think...
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Washington To President Obama, the sweeping immigration overhaul he announced in a speech to the nation on Thursday night is focused on people. Its about helping the people who pick our fruit, build our bridges, and clean our houses come out from the shadows. Its about allowing mothers and fathers to stay with their children.
Are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents arms? Or are we a nation that values families and works to keep them together? Mr. Obama said in perhaps the most emotion-laden passage of his address.
To newly empowered Republicans, the attention of the nation should be focused on the president's process on immigration. Obama does not lawfully have the power to order changes to the extent that he did, in their view. Its an abuse of the governmental system established by the Founding Fathers that could set a dangerous precedent for presidents to come.
The president seems intent on provoking a constitutional crisis by adopting policies that he previously said were illegal, said Sen. John Cornyn (R) of Texas.
Its this juxtaposition people versus process that will define the coming political immigration war. And war it will be, rhetorically speaking. Obama has set off an explosion as the GOP readies to take control of both chambers of Congress in 2015 by doing something that infuriates them on an issue they warned him to leave be.
In part, that is because their party may be divided by the response. Establishment Republicans have tried to rule out using the congressional power of the purse to shut down the government in response to the immigration actions. But the conservative tea party wing of the GOP sees that as a lack of conviction, not prudence.
If the GOP really thought this were a constitutional crisis, they would act like it, writes conservative commentator Erick Erickson Friday on his personal blog.
Obamas announcement on Thursday was the culmination of months of emotional buildup in Washington on the immigration issue. In the end, his moves were slightly less sweeping than some had hoped, or feared.
As expected, the centerpiece was an order that the undocumented parents of children who are American citizens or have green cards are protected from deportation and eligible for green cards for at least three years. Under this provision, the children do not have to be minors, but the parents must pass a background check.
Obama also extended the deadline for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), which he launched in 2012. This program shields from deportation minors who were brought here illegally as children. Previously, the children in question had to have arrived in the United States prior to 2007; Obama on Thursday extended that to 2010.
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Sarah Obama, left, and her translator, Mama Sarah Obama Foundation Executive Director Debra Akello, spoke at the United Nations on Wednesday. Bebeto Matthews/AP hide caption
Sarah Obama, left, and her translator, Mama Sarah Obama Foundation Executive Director Debra Akello, spoke at the United Nations on Wednesday.
The United States has seen many fundraisers headlined by an Obama in recent years, but this week it won't be the president or the first lady it will be his step-grandmother, Sarah Obama, who is raising funds to build a school and hospital in her hometown, Kogelo, Kenya.
Obama, who runs the Mama Sarah Obama Foundation and was honored with an Education Pioneer award at the United Nations on Wednesday as part of its Women's Entrepreneurship Day, has spent much of her life helping young people and particularly young women in her region get an education.
President Obama's last surviving grandparent, whom he referred to as Granny in his memoir Dreams from My Father, never went to school herself, she tells NPR's Scott Simon through an interpreter.
"It was very hard for women to get an education," when she was growing up, the 94-year-old Obama says. "Only young boys or men were allowed to go to school."
But things are different in Kenya now, she says. United Nations data actually shows a higher percentage of Kenyan girls going to school than Kenyan boys.
"I encourage them even the ones who have had families at a young age I encourage them to go to school so that the cycle of poverty can end," Obama says. She sometimes uses her grandson as an example of the doors an education can open.
Often, Obama says, she and her foundation provide much more than encouragement.
"I help the orphans and widows, especially the young girls who have been orphaned by their parents dying of HIV," she says. "I am their sole parent right now, so I help them pay school fees and also get them the things that they need, like sanitary towels, books, necessities like a pencil, school uniforms. That's what I do."
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Rick Santorum: Obama not enforcing the law
Former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum discusses President Obama #39;s executive order on immigration.
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