Which begs the obvious question, how does this help the dues-paying rank-and-file AFL-CIO members?
Via Washington Examiner:
AFL-CIO delegates denounced President Obama’s record on illegal immigrant deportations Tuesday, saying the White House should put the brakes on the process while Congress is debating a comprehensive reform bill.
“When we have a bill for 11 million immigrants to become full Americans, we should not be, in the middle of this, deporting them,” said Tefere Gebre, director of the Orange County Labor Federation, at a press conference during the AFL-CIO’s quadrennial convention in Los Angeles. Gebre was joined by “several of the nation’s top labor leaders,” according to the L.A. Times.
Obama has deported more than 1.5 million immigrants in his first term and has maintained an aggressive approach, deporting an average of 34,000 a month in the last fiscal year alone. Obama has boasted of his administration’s track record on deportations, even as he softened immigration policy in other areas.