The San Francisco Board of Supervisors expressed enthusiastic support on Tuesday (March 14) for the city-appointed committee's recommendations for reparations, which included paying eligible...
As President Barack Obama pushes Congress to pass immigration reform, there are some who believe he isn’t pushing hard or fast enough for solutions. According to Talking Points Memo, he encountered such a person yesterday in San Francisco. President Barack Obama was interrupted by a pro-immigration reform activist on Monday while pushing for a comprehensive solution to the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants in California. While speaking at the Betty Ong Recreation Center in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Obama rebutted a heckler who shouted that the president could stop all deportations by merely signing an executive order. “You have a power to stop all deportations,” the heckler said. “Actually, I don’t,” Obama responded. ”The easy way out is to try to yell and pretend like I can do something by violating our laws. If in fact I could solve all these problems without passing laws in Congress, I would do so.” Earlier in ...
