{"id":651623,"date":"2010-02-02T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/obama-draws-criticism-for-lack-of-specifics-on-immigration-in-state-of-the-union-address\/"},"modified":"2010-02-02T10:00:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T15:00:57","slug":"obama-draws-criticism-for-lack-of-specifics-on-immigration-in-state-of-the-union-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/651623","title":{"rendered":"Obama Draws Criticism For Lack Of Specifics On Immigration In State Of The Union Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/barbed%2Bwire_1961_19588378_0_0_7039632_300.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"Obama draws criticism for lack of specifics on immigration in State of the Union address \" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">Last Wednesday&#8217;s State of the Union speech was more than an hour long, but President Obama devoted only one sentence to immigration, promising to fix a &quot;broken&quot; system by securing borders and enforcing the laws. For both opponents and proponents of immigration, this was not nearly enough. <\/p>\n<p>In a commentary written for CNN, Ruben Navarrette Jr. stated that he was &quot;disappointed&quot; that Obama did not lay a more detailed plan for a comprehensive immigration reform that would give illegal immigrants a chance to regulate their status and would define the role of guest workers. <\/p>\n<p>However, Navarette acknowledged that immigration reform &quot;was always going to be an especially tough issue for Democrats since it splits the liberal coalition with Latinos on one side and organized labor on the other.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a conservative group, has attacked the president for putting emphasis on the need to create jobs while disregarding the fact that some 8 million jobs are currently held by illegal immigrants that could go to U.S. citizens. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;These jobs could be immediately transferred to American workers if the administration were to vigorously enforce laws against employers who hire illegal aliens and remove those workers from the country,&quot; said Dan Stein, president of FAIR. <\/p>\n<p>Stein also chastised the government for allegedly abandoning worksite enforcement efforts. <br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19588378-ADNFCR\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?w=780\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Wednesday&#8217;s State of the Union speech was more than an hour long, but President Obama devoted only one sentence to immigration, promising to fix a &quot;broken&quot; system by securing borders and enforcing the laws. For both opponents and proponents of immigration, this was not nearly enough. In a commentary written for CNN, Ruben Navarrette [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Jw3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}