Obama Willing To Carve Immigration Bill Into Pieces

WASHINGTON – InThanksgiving spirit, PresidentBarack Obama has indicated awillingness tosplit the newimmigration legislationintopieces, if that willget it passed, ashe rejected a pleaby a heckler tostop deportationsby executive fiat.”That’s okay,”Obama said in a speech in SanFrancisco as he urged HouseRepublicans to back new immigrationlegislation to resolve theissue of 11 million illegal immigrants,including nearly 300,000Indians.”It’s Thanksgiving. We can carvethat bird into multiple pieces – adrumstick here, breast meatthere,” he said.But Obama also said a finalpackage must include certainelements, including a proposedpathway to citizenship that hasdrawn opposition fromRepublicans.”As long as all the pieces getdone, soon, and we actuallydeliver on the core values wehave been talking about for solong, I think everybody is finewith it,” he said.As Obama spoke, ayoung protester calledfor the president tohalt the deportationsof undocumentedworkers arguing “Youhave a power to stopdeportations for all.””Actually, I don’t, andthat’s why we’re here,”Obama responded as the hecklerand several others continuedshouting, breaking out into achant of “stop deportations!”