"Obama tells Kyl in private Oval
Office meeting: I won’t secure border b/c then Republicans will have no reason
to support “comprehensive immigration reform.”
Saturday, June 19th at
8:47PM EDT
On June 18, 2010, Arizona
Republican Senator Jon Kyl told the audience at a North Tempe Tea Party town
hall meeting that during a private, one-on-one meeting with President Obama in
the Oval Office, the President told him, regarding securing the southern border
with Mexico, “The problem is, . . . if we secure the border, then you all won’t
have any reason to support ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’” [Audible gasps
were heard throughout the audience.] Sen. Kyl continued, “In other words,
they’re holding it hostage. They don’t want to secure the border unless and
until it is combined with ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’”
Sen. Kyl
also said he reminded President Obama that the President and the Congress has an
obligation, a duty, to secure the border.
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(This part of Sen. Kyl’s remarks begins at the 3:17 mark of the video
below.)