Barack Obama

You know, I'm the president of the United States.

I'm not the emperor of the United States.

My job is to execute laws that are passed.

And Congress right now has not changed what I consider to be a broken immigration system.

And what that means is that we have certain obligations to enforce the laws that are in place, even if we think that in many cases the results may be tragic.

There are going to be some

stories that break our hearts and more importantly we're going to continue to have an economy that is stifled by a really inefficient system where not only uh are we deporting folks but we also have a legal immigration system that is so bottlenecked that it forces sometimes people into the illegal system you know i'm the president united states i'm not

puppet movement, it's not real, it's astroturf. I asked Obama about this in 2022 when we interviewed him. Here's what he had to say. When I think back to 2009, 2010, you guys will recall there was a big debate inside the White House about whether I should publicly affirm

Green-yhteisöstä, koska monet aktiiviset olivat huomattaneet, että olemme Westin tuulit. Oli ajatuksena, että olemme jostain tapaa ylipäänsä ylipäänsä Iranin yliopistossa, jos olisin työskennellyt siitä, mitä he tekevät. Ja vastauksessa mielestäni se oli ongelma.

Every time we see a flash, a glimmer of hope, of people longing for freedom, I think we have to point it out. We have to shine a spotlight on it. We have to express some solidarity about it. I thought that was really interesting, Ben, that he kind of

I'm Barack Obama.

That's spelled B-A-R-A-C-K.

O-B-A-M-A.

And my birthday is August 4th.

Can I say, before we start, or whenever you want to start, to me, I can't imagine anything tougher or more terrifying than doing stand-up comedy.

So once you do that, I mean, everything else is... Is easy?

I won't say easy.

I'm saying... Not as frightening.

Yeah.

The...