Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Barack Obama on Immigration, 2008

 

(0:00) It's not going to be a free ride. (0:02) It's not going to be some instant amnesty. (0:04) What's going to happen is you are going to pay a significant fine.

(0:09) You are going to learn English. (0:12) You are going to go to the back of the line so that you don't get ahead of somebody who (0:19) was in Mexico City applying legally. (0:23) But after you've done these things over a certain period of time, you can earn your (0:30) citizenship so that it's not something that is guaranteed or automatic.

(0:37) You've got to earn it. (0:38) But over time, you give people an opportunity. (0:41) Now, it only works, though, if you do all the pieces.

(0:45) I think the American people, they appreciate and believe in immigration. (0:50) But they can't have a situation where you just have half a million people pouring over (0:55) the border without any kind of mechanism to control it.

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