President Obama said at an Iowa city hall meeting these days that the controversial immigration legislation signed into law Friday could lead to racial profiling.
"You know, you can try and allow it to be genuinely challenging on those who look like they, quote, may very well be illegal immigrants,
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The president extra that a Hispanic American whose family members had been from the United states of america for generations confronted a circumstance by which "now out of the blue in case you don't have your papers and also you took your child out to have ice cream, you can be harassed, that's one thing that might potentially take place."
"That's not the right method to go," the president mentioned,
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The president had previously criticized the law as "misguided."
At the city hall meeting,
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"The only way it's going to happen if Democrats and Republicans come together and do this because this is such a volatile issue," he explained. "I will bring the majority of Democrats to the table, but we have to have help from the other side."
Republican Jeb Bush, who supports reform at the national level, became the first from his party to speak out against the Arizona law Tuesday. In an interview with Politico,
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"It's difficult for me to imagine how you're going to enforce this law. It places a significant burden on local law enforcement so you have civil liberties issues that are significant as well," he explained from the interview.
He mentioned his administration had already made progress on securing the borders and that more should be done, and that that there should be more punishment for employers who hire illegal workers.
The president additional that he supported a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants, but that they should be made to learn English, pay a fine and "get in the back of the line" when it comes to attaining legal status.
The Arizona law,
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Attorney General Eric Holder indicated nowadays that he believes "the law is an unfortunate one that will be subject to potential abuse" and stated that the Justice Department is "considering a court challenge."
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