What has happened over the past year with all of the critical issues that motivated me to campaign and vote for President Obama. One such issue is Comprehensive Immigration Reform. During the campaign I had the opportunity to meet President Barrack Obama. As I sat beside him in the conference room at BMCC in NYC, the only question I posed to him that day was “What will you do about immigration reform? “ He answered, “I am in favor of Comprehensive Immigration Reform.” I must say I felt his answer was rehearsed and that it was not a priority issue for him. I guess my intuition was correct. Since becoming president the Obama administration has deported more immigrants in a 12 month period than the Bush administration did within the same time frame. In this first year of his presidency 387,000 immigrants were deported and, sadly, on any given day there are 32,000 immigrants being held within inhumane detention centers throughout our country. If immigrants are not a priority in his administration, certainly, one would hope that the civil liberties of US citizens would be. I would have imagined that The Patriot Act, one of the worse remnants of the Bush administration and one of the greatest challenges to civil liberties that our citizens have ever faced, would certainly be dealt with swiftly by this new administration. To the extreme disappointment of many, that has not been the case. Several weeks ago, President Obama signed a one year extension of the Patriot Act. It seems that the Obama administration is also caving in to pressure to continue the legacy of the Bush administration which has held military tribunals, rather than providing civilian trials for suspected “Enemy Combatants.” I do not understand how the most egregious aspects of the Bush administration continue to haunt our society.