Vice President Joe Biden spoke Thursday to an audience at the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s 2014 Legislative Summit. The estimated 11 million illegal aliens in the United States “are already Americans,” he said.
But not really. After all, It’s Obama who has the pen and the phone; everybody realizes that not everything Biden says has the potential to suddenly become law. Immigrants without legal permission to be in the United States are actually committing a crime and the Vice President can’t unilaterally change that.
“Eleven million people living in the shadows I believed are already American citizens,” Biden said. “These people are just waiting, waiting for a chance to be able to contribute fully, and by that standard, 11 million undocumented aliens are already Americans in my view.”Biden referenced former President Theodore Roosevelt’s 1894 speech titled “True Americanism.”
“Teddy Roosevelt said it better. He said, Americanism is not a question of birthplace or creed or a line of descent. It’s a question of principles, idealism and character,” Biden said.
Biden compared illegal immigrants to immigrants who legally entered the United States, saying it took “a lot of courage” to pick up and go to America where they don’t speak the language and no one seems to want them.
“It takes a whole hell of a lot of courage to be sitting at a wooden kitchen somewhere anywhere in the world and say, you know, I tell you what kids. Let’s all pick up and go to America where we don’t speak the language, where they don’t seem to want us, where it’s gonna be really, really rough to get there, but let’s go. Won’t that be fun?” Biden said.
“All they want—they just want a decent life for their kids, a chance to contribute to a free society, a chance to put down roots and help build the next great American century. I really believe that. That’s what they’re fighting for,” Biden added.
Source: CNS News
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Who do they think they are, Tyrants?
idiot
Joe Biden, you are such a Fool…..How dare you do this to the Hard Working, God Fearing Citizens of the United States of America…you are such a disgusting Human Being….
can not get over him being like obama
time for revolt
God help us we have a left-wing radical terrorist as president and this guy is a gullible, senile,imbecile, he actually thinks these illegals came here to work hard, hell they have illegal relatives calling them and saying, hurry up, sneak across, these idiots will hand you money AND you dont have to pay any medical bills, you just say, send me a bill and never pay it!
If all you racist $#%&!@*s would get off your fat asses and work there would not be this problem in the first place. Good for Biden. I stand by Bidens side.
HE IS ON COCAINE AND HIS BRAIN DOES NOT WORK??????????
only the ones that vote for you fool’s
IDIOT!!!