In Colorado, Obama slams Romney on immigration

President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign stop at the Colorado State Fairgrounds in Pueblo, Colo., Thursday Aug. 9, 2012.

/ AP Photo/David Zalubowski

(CBS News) On the second day of his Colorado tour, President Obama slammed his Republican rival Mitt Romney for statements he's made about immigration.

"Romney believes in self-deportation" and the Arizona immigration law, Mr. Obama told the crowd in Pueblo, Colo., Thursday.

The president also touts his new directive that allows children of undocumented immigrants seek legal residency, telling a cheering crowd that "being a part of the American family...is the right thing to do."

The president's tour comes as a Quinnipiac/CBS/New York Times poll out this week showed Mr. Obama trailing Romney by five points in Colorado, though the president has a commanding 40-point lead among Hispanics, which make up 10 percent of Colorado's likely voters.

Despite President Obama's lead among Hispanic voters, both campaigns and their supporters are trying to shrink the president's lead. The Romney campaign has been running a Spanish-language ad in Colorado, which says he would repeal "Obamacare" as president, while Mr. Obama and the pro-Obama super PAC, Priorities USA, and SEIU are also advertising in the state.

The president also criticized Romney's opposition to wind energy tax credits, saying Romney's position would lead to job losses there, as the industry employs 5,000 people in Colorado.

"It is time to stop spending billions in taxpayer subsidies on an oil industry that's rarely been more profitable, and keep investing in a clean energy industry that's never been more promising," he said.

[DelawareBob]

I'm not a republican, but I will be voting for one this election, and pray to God he will get our immigration laws enforced. I'm sick of obama and the democraps pandering to these people who have NO RIGHT to be in this country. The illegal aliens who don't have our jobs, are using this country as a welfare country with their anchor babies, (illegal alien children). Why should illegal aliens be entitled to a DREAM Act? They are in this country ILLEGALLY no matter how they got here. It's time to get these illegal aliens back to their own country where they belong. They DO NOT belong here!

Illegal immigration is a cancer, it has to be eradicated not tolerated.

Liberal Democrat stupidity knows no limits.

[PSnoBS]

Very good DelawareBob, give the rest of we who pay attention to information something to laugh at.

I don't suppose knowing that Obama's administration has voerseen deportation levels significantly higher than Bush Jr. would change your mind at all?

I suppose your answer will tell us whether you're really a Republican or not.

[PSnoBS]

overseen*

[cateyes1960]

I think immagrints should go back to their home lands and return the american home land to the americans, so we to can get the same housing , jobs opratunities as they get. they come here get housing handed to them for cheap, business's put into their names almost free of charge, wealfare and medical coverage handed to them with no questions aske , but we americans whom are ill, have much medical problems can't get disability, medical. or wealfare medical without a fight and evens then for most still can't get it, do to a small income in the family that you barely get by on, with rent, elect, and water bills so high it leavs you nothing to live on, not evens enough to by personal needs, shampoos, bath soaps, womens personal needs, tooth past, tooth brushes, ect. but them oh heavens for bid. if they have to fight as us americans have to. go get what we need, if we'd go into their country their country would not see us as we see them and hand it all to us as we do them, nor would they take from their own to give to us, something wrong with this picture, common america, we need to hang on to our rights.

[MarkMallarde]

What a radical idea by Romney: Ask people to voluntarily follow the law. Wow, let's crucify him.

[euge005]

while I would never want to see a vulture like Miyyins as President, he is right on that one and Obama is wrong, but on energy Obama is right. The panderers to the outdated carbon based fossil fuel industries are wrong. The later including the Koch;s own the GOP. Conversely, both parties pander to the criminal immigrants. Just maybe Mitt does it less than most.

[UForgotPoland]

Why do candidates even talk about immigration? As soon as any of them get into office they just do the exact same thing there predecessor did and ignore the issue altogether.

[Galactus909]

Why does President Obama hate white people?

[cateyes1960]

I wouldn't say he hates them, but he does go more for all whom aren't white, and they all out number us, in votes, in life needs ect. that is why we have so much trouble getting help medically, housing, food, roofs over our heads, ect. we get denied disability, medical through wealfare, ect. but they don't, it gets handed to them practally, evens if they have jobs, they want to yell predjudism against us whites, but we are the one's whom should be yelling it, we are the ones whom get pushed back and have to fight for what we get, and get along with all nationalities, they are the ones whom have the predjudism against us not us to them. why can't we all see all as equal, and be treated all the same. the world would be a much better place to live if they would, but its not ment to be that way. so sad.

[greenlantern1]

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During WW2 azgreat American general,
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Born in Texas, he mut have kown about the Alamo.
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Dwiht David Eisenhower had to protect his men!
Ike was of German orfigin.
Fittingly, his meninclude the Nisei. Americans of Japanse ancestry.
Are the Tuskagee Armen Americans.
The Navaho Wind talkers?
Churchill is an honorary US icizen!
There is a desroyer!
Michelle achmann signed ppers t become a Swiss citzen.
IKs there a garbage scow in her honor?

[euge005]

She does not deserve a garbage scow. But a sanitarium? Possibly.

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Seriously?

[Housessmart]

If immigration policies had been carried out to the letter, after the blanket amnesty of 1986, then the current horrendous chaos would be insignificant. Communities as Farmers Branch would not be in pitch battles with the court, over ordinances to stop the proliferation of illegal aliens procuring taxpayers money or being able to settle there. The threat of intimidation in Arizona, Texas or other states by the Socialists and Marxists in the Obama administration, has been a financial cross to bear, but has shown the length that these instigators will go to—to get there way. Instead now have 20 million plus illegal aliens scattered across America, either working under the table for dishonest employers or using stolen ID to gain employment. Since the Simpson/Mazzoli bill immigration has got completely uncontrollable with Sanctuary Cities springing up, huge importations of people under Chain Migration adding to ultimately to extra uncompensated programs for the ethnic poor from South of our border, from those who overstayed visas from around the globe. In a second term Obama will press for another mass amnesty, so he can eliminate any chance of the other side from overriding his executive orders.

If you don't want to be paying out the money you have earned, for both the illegal aliens who have never paid a cent into anything and the parasites (freeloaders) that were born here, the best hope we have is voting more TEA PARTY members. Whatever happened to President Obama, who was going to be a world changer? All he has done is divided the country, which he not only has his people churned the U.S. Constitution into the dirt, but intimidated numerous states over their stand on illegal immigration. This issue carries enormous costs, which will be even add more vulnerability as more people escaping poverty, will abscond to America that is already under financial peril.

[Housessmart]

Obama's agenda is almost limitless; to kill any permits for drilling any of our massive deposits of oil, gas that makes us ever dependent on foreign nations. Even now we have spiraling gas prices that will never end, until we open up more wells, and dig for more coal for energy to run our homes and industry. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been wasted on alternative methods, but the Socialists in Washington are adamant that they will undermine fossil fuels in this time of urgent need. The Rules and Regulations have become so predominant, that businesses large and small cannot function properly; Obama's czars are standing in the way of progressing out of this sterile environment and dragging America down.

The TEA PARTY leadership will vote for to strict immigration policies though the Senate and House of Representatives. But more TEA PARTY politicians must achieve more seats in Congress, which seems to be actually happening? Plenty of these moderate conservatives and true advocate of our U.S. Constitution are ready to influence the other lawmaker's to enact policies that assist out of work Americans. It will open up jobs for millions of low income Blacks, Hispanics, and Latino's, Whites, Asians and all other ethnic groups lawfully here. It is passed time we enacted the 'Legal Workforce Act (H.R. 2885) and the Birthright citizenship Act (H.R.140)? It is time that the state of Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Utah and other 50 states should be able to protect their state borders? Each law is essential in structuring our policies, then once again projecting a zero forbearance on our immigration policies. The Birthright Citizenship law has been manipulated, as it didn't extend that just anybody who reached into America could be credited with citizenship, as it was only an opportunity for the emancipation of slaves. THESE LAWS MUST BE PASSED SO THE AMERICAN WORKER CAN GAIN A FOOTHOLD AGAIN, ESPECIALLY WHEN 8 PERCENT OF OUR POPULATION IS JOBLESS, OR JUST GIVEN UP BEING HIRED?

[Housessmart]

Interesting enough President Obama's socialized health care is the 'Catch 22' situation which will surface when the 'Obamacare' plan is fully operational. Illegal aliens will be very vulnerable to detection, as these people will not be able to join the health care program, but the children of illegal aliens will. The children of 11 million illegal aliens (if you believe the government estimates), whereas more thoroughly research surveys estimate the real number in our populace is over 20 million plus or in fact even higher?; children recognized as citizens through a carefully engineered law, with the aim of stating the offspring are citizens, once the Mother has smuggled the unborn baby through the arrival gate at an airport or through the hundreds of open miles along our border. Once here the pregnant mothers are on welfare and are then guaranteed all sorts of care, that the majority of American expectant mother cannot collect. Citizens and legal residents are tracked by their Social Security number for hospital fees, while the illegal alien female pays zero. The American people are on the hook and expected to pay not only for the 'freeloaders' but the new baby citizen. An amendment to Rep. Steve Kings (R-IA) 'BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ACT will end this taxpayer rip-off, by insuring that one parent must be a U.S. citizen, a legal permanent resident, or an undocumented immigrant serving in the military would be considered citizens—saving hundreds of billions of dollars a year in schooling, health care and many public assistance programs.

THE DREAM ACT like any other assessment waiver will just attract more pregnant females to the U.S., so they can plant their unborn baby here as public charges? Customs and Immigration Inspectors at any entry port cannot detect a fetus in the womb of any female visitor, so they only deterrent we have are altering the requirements for instant citizenship for babies? The Dream Act will inevitably discover hundreds of thousand, even millions of the physical residences of 'Dream Act' kids, which could open a new Pandora's box' and reveal the presence parents by ICE for deportation punishment? In furtherance American taxpayers are fully aware now of the scam not addressed by the IRS. While Americans are have a hard time feeding their families, illegal aliens are accessing the child tax credit on a huge scale, ripping of the taxpayer for $4.6 billion dollars with Senator Harry Reid, a diehard Liberal stopping the Senate from passing a law to stop this conspiracy. The records show illegal aliens have been defrauding the public for decades; paying nothing in the way of taxes, yet collecting money through IRS stupidity, even to sending treasury checks to children not present in the good old U.S.A.

[Housessmart]

The oddest part of our immigration laws, is that ICE (as Yet) cannot track visa over stays like many other nations? My thinking is that this is intentional, which we should include any entry—which as a serious deterrent should be a Felony—not a civil infraction? California, the well known sanctuary state for millions of illegal aliens and a heavy duty liberal Governor and his progressives is out to push drivers licenses for these people. Only the true voters can halt this and be aware, that illegal alien will be voting in the upcoming elections and the TEA PARTY people will be watching for criminal acts, especially with absentee ballots and with no boundaries on voting the outcome could be well directed fraud by the liberals and the Democrat underlings.

IF YOU ARE A TAXPAYER AND AN ELIGIBLE VOTER YOU CAN ADD YOUR ANGRY VOICE TO THE CHORUS OF MILLIONS OF OTHER PEOPLE AND THE TEA PARTY WHO ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS TRAVESTY OF OUR LAWS ANYMORE? CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE AND DEMAND THE VOTE FOR A SIMPLE AMENDMENT TO THE 'Birthright Citizenship Act'. If we can pass this law as many other countries have done, we can discourage the daily onslaught of thousands illegal aliens trying to reach the United States.

[euge005]

Or maybe the inability to track these criminals is due to the GOP screaming about regulation and fighting any money being speny for the necessary governmental tools to do peerform the role of government effectively. For crying out loud, under Bush the Defense department was still using IBM punch cards trying to connect the terrorist dots for a first few years. But wait, those are the Tea party folks and Grover Norquist, right?