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Did Obama Encourage Illegal Immigrants to Vote? No, But YES.

John Bickley

In an interview highlighted by Fox Business News’ Neil Cavuto that’s gone viral, President Barack Obama seems to encourage illegal immigrants to vote. In response to an ambiguously phrased question about illegal immigrants and voting, Obama gives an equivocal answer that many have interpreted as an open call for illegals to illegally vote.

In an interview (below) with actress and rapper Gina Rodriguez — a Chicago-born American citizen whose parents are Puerto Rican — Obama discussed the supposed attempts by the Right to suppress voting rights and tried to encourage Latinos to get to the polls. The eyebrow-raising moment came when Rodriguez told the president that “millennials, Dreamers, undocumented citizens” are “fearful of voting,” then asked if some like her were to vote, would immigration authorities be able to track her down and “come for my family and deport us.”

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