Barack Obama Denouces ‘Inflammatory’ Donald Trump Immigration Policies

As the audience booed, the president interrupted them.

Obama used the speech to highlight gains he said Hispanics have made under his presidency, noting that 4 million more Latinos have health insurance and that the unemployment rate for the group has about fallen in half from 13 percent to about 6.4 percent.

“That’s not leadership, turning against what’s right the moment the politics of your base gets tough”, Obama said.

“There has been a misunderstanding over how we got our majority”, says a well-connected GOP strategist.

“You can’t just feed on fear”, he said.

She said it was a problem when candidates “use offensive terms like ‘anchor babies, ‘” a phrase that Republican Jeb Bush used to describe infants whose parents come to America specifically so their children are born in the USA and granted automatic citizenship.

During her brief speech introducing chef José Andrés, a young person claiming affiliation with activist group United We Dream heckled Clinton at the front of the stage before being forcibly removed.

“Although it is taking us longer than we hoped we are on the right side of the law, and I will keep fighting to prove it”, he vowed.

Thursday at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s 38th Anniversary Awards Gala, President Barack Obama criticized Republicans and urged Americans to “stand up” against the “bigotry” in the form of “the anti-immigrant sentiment that has effected our politics”.

“We’re taking new steps to reach out to folks who are eligible to become citizens, and attract immigrant entrepreneurs, and educate STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) students”, Obama said in his address to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Gala last night. “We’ve got smarter enforcement priorities, because it makes no sense to focus on separating families when we can be going after felons instead”, he added.

Obama said the Republicans looking to succeed him want to turn back the clock, particularly where the nation’s immigration laws are concerned.

“Don’t boo… vote. They can’t hear the boos… they can hear your vote”, he said.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at… He contrasted that message to a few GOP candidates calling for more walls on the US border with Mexico.