Obama to protester: Immigration reform will take more than ‘just shouting’

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President Obama lectured a protester during a California immigration event Monday, saying in an unscripted moment that he could not unilaterally halt deportations of illegal immigrants and that true reform would require more than “just shouting.”

“The easy way out is to try to yell and pretend like I can do something by violating our laws,” Obama told the heckler at a speech in San Francisco’s Chinatown. “It won’t be as easy as just shouting.”

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