Aug 13, 2010 ... And everywhere, people have expressed frustration with a system that seems  fundamentally broken," said Obama. Obama promised to strongly support a  comprehensive immigration reform bill that would be introduced during his first  year in office. As president, he has repeatedly called for reform and ...
Sep 25, 2012 ... Univision anchor Jorge Ramos held Obama accountable for a promise the former  Illinois senator made during his 2008 bid for office, when he said, “I can  guarantee that we will have, in the first year, an immigration bill that I strongly  support.” “I want to emphasize 'the first year,' ” Ramos said. “At the ...
Call it a reboot: President Barack Obama broke a promise four years ago to take  up a comprehensive immigration bill in his first year. Such a bill, as Obama  describes it, would provide a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.  Instead, that bill may emerge in the first year of his second term — at least in the ...
Jan 11, 2016 ... Obama failed to make immigration a top priority and pass comprehensive reform  in his first year. Obama failed to "nail shut" the ... PROMISE: President Obama: " Let Me Say It As Simply As I Can: Transparency And The Rule Of Law Will Be  The Touchstones Of This Presidency." (President Barack Obama ...
Feb 19, 2016 ... Did Obama break his promise to introduce comprehensive immigration reform in  his first year? Yes indeed. He says it was because the economy had collapsed  and he had to spend all his time dealing with that. But no one really buys that.  The stimulus bill passed pretty quickly, and during the rest of his first ...
Says Obama broke his promise to offer a comprehensive immigration bill in his first year.