The first black president does not have the support of all black Americans on the issue of amnesty for illegal aliens who pose a real threat to job prospects for black workers.

Joe R. Hicks  is the former executive director of the Greater Los Angeles chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He is a member of Project 21, a group promoting the conservative

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views of African-Americans not echoed by the nation’s tradition civil rights establishment.

Here is his take on the president’s message from last night.

"President Obama strode into the White House promising to give the American people the audacity of hope. What we are witnessing instead, with his immigration agenda, is an audacious grab for power and an evisceration of the Constitution.

With the stroke of a pen, Obama rewards those who arrogantly mock our border laws while simultaneously telling those hopeful immigrants still waiting patiently to lawfully come to America that they are chumps. After these five million or so, what then? The magnet that draws illegal immigrants across the border just got stronger. They will come expecting -- no, demanding -- to get ‘Obama’s amnesty.’”

 

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