Headline Roundup • June 17th, 2012
Obama on Immigration
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Mitt Romney declined to say whether, if elected president, he would nix the Obama administration's controversial new order allowing potentially hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children to avoid deportation. In an interview broadcast Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation," Romney criticized the move by the Department of Homeland Security as political and a short-term fix.
Politico
President Barack Obama on Friday announced a major election-year immigration policy shift to halt the deportation of certain younger illegal immigrants and grant them work permits, infuriating Republicans with what the president said is a step toward making the countrys immigration system “more fair, more efficient and more just.
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Did you ever wonder why Charlie Brown kept charging at the football, despite the fact that Lucy always pulled it away and he wound up flat on his back? You would think that experience has made him skeptical. It's because he really wanted to believe that, this time, things would work out. And when you really want to believe in something, you have a short memory when it comes to past disappointments.
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