“Broken Promise” on Immigration Reform May Affect Fall Elections
As primary season nears, Hispanic voters are expressing their disappointment over President Obama’s “promesa rota” on immigration reform.
As primary season nears, Hispanic voters are expressing their disappointment over President Obama’s “promesa rota” on immigration reform.
Part of President Barack Obama’s Sunday morning interview blitz was a sitdown with Univision’s Jorge Ramos, in which the anchor’s questions were as telling as the president’s answers.
Ramos confronted Obama not only about whether undocumented immigrants will be able to buy insurance under a reformed health care system, but also questioned his use of the term “illegal immigrants” during his recent speech to Congress and pressured him on his fading promise of putting forward an immigration reform bill during his first year in office.
Obama stepped carefully around the thornier questions and, other than reaffirming that the undocumented will only get health insurance by paying full price for it, did not say much that was news to an Hispanic audience that may be increasingly disappointed with his government.