President Barack Obama is slated to fly to a series of Latin American diplomatic meetings on Thursday and Friday, which he will use to tout cross-border trade and the Senate’s pending immigration rewrite.
“Our relationship with the countries in Central America is vital … and it is certainly not limited at all to the matters of immigration reform in this country,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said Monday.
However, he added, “you can expect he’ll talk about it, because it’s very topical here in the United States, and it is of interest to countries in the region.”
Starting Thursday morning, the two-day trip will send the president first to Mexico, where he will meet with President Peña Nieto. He will fly the next day to Costa Rica, where he will meet with regional leaders and the country’s president, Laura Chinchilla Miranda.
Uh-oh, Assad better watch out. Wasn't he in Argentina mucking it up with that marxist Kirchner when he "decided" to start the bombing campaign in Libya a couple of years ago?
Gee - isn't it "interesting" how all the players in this country - no matter what other "disagreements" they may have - are all singing out of the same hymnal when it comes to the holy grail of immigration reform.
Why - you've got the whole spectrum. All the way from hard left Obama to faaaaaaaaaaaaaaar right McClown and his hand puppet Graham (that last is posted with tongue in cheek, BTW)
The last two times we had THAT much unity on ANYTHING was (if memory serves):