Obama takes usual course and spends the day golfing

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The motorcade carrying President Barack Obama to play golf at Marine Corps Base Hawaii on Saturday passed people holding signs, including one that called for more immigration reform and added a polite “thanks” for the steps he already has taken to change the immigration process.

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President Barack Obama spent the first full day of his Christmas vacation in Hawaii as he usually does — on the golf course.

According to press pool reports, Obama left the Kailua luxury rental where he and the rest of the first family are staying shortly after 11:30 a.m. Saturday and headed straight for the Kaneohe Klipper golf course at Marine Corps Base Hawaii.

The motorcade passed demonstrators on the street who held signs reading "Close Gitmo," "All Lives Matter," "Prosecute the War Criminals" and "No more drone killings," as well as one that read "Aloha Obama."

Obama golfed with special assistants Mike Brush and Joe Paulsen, and childhood friend Bobby Titcomb.

The president left the Marine base around 4:15 p.m. and returned to the vacation rental.

A White House official confirmed that Obama was briefed during the day regarding the fatal shooting of two police officers in Brooklyn.

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Meanwhile, the north side of Kailua Beach and Kailua Bay remained off limits to the public Saturday. A Secret Service agent and a Honolulu police officer turned back beach walkers at a white tent set up on the sand.

Two men on personal watercraft bobbed in the shorebreak, presumably to intercept any approaching craft.