White House: We Can’t Wait? President Obama Takes Actions to Increase Travel and Tourism in the United States

Yesterday, President Obama will sign an Executive Order with the title “We Can’t Wait: President Obama Takes Actions to Increase Travel and Tourism in the United States.” It announces new initiatives to significantly increase foreign travel and tourism to the United States. According to President Obama, “This is the most recent of a series of executive actions the President has announced to put Americans back to work and strengthen the U.S. economy.”

Sadly, I can think of many more appropriate things to claim that “We Can’t Wait” for with respect to immigration.

We can’t wait for Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform.

We can’t wait for Congress to pass the DREAM Act.

We can’t wait for the end of the deportation of thousands of petty criminal offenders with family, friends, and community in the United States through programs like Secure Communities.

We can’t wait for an end to the discriminatory state immigration laws like those in Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, South Carolina, etc.

I can go on but you get the idea.

KJ