Posted on 08/30/2013 6:30:34 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
The question on the minds of many is: ‘will President Obama save immigration reform from falling by the wayside?’ House leaders said they will continue to press for reform but the months ahead will consist largely of budget related issues. The budget will likely consume the agenda of politicians and may bury all attempts to address the immigration issue.
Advocates of immigration reform have proposed a plan to lobby the White House to use Executive Privilege in order to move immigration reform along. Such a move could galvanize the Hispanic electorate against the Republicans in coming elections. The Hispanic vote has been perceived as the quickest growing voting block in the electorate in the United States.
“I believe that this president will be tempted, if nothing happens in Congress, to issue an executive order as he did for the Dream Act kids a year ago, where he basically legalizes 11 million people by the sign of a pen,” said Republican Senator Marco Rubio. Many opponents of the reform movement saw the statement from the leading Republican as a veiled blackmail inference.
Will Obama save immigration reform and issue an executive order to placate the movement?
“Some people feel like we need to cut our losses, legalize as many people as we can,” Juanita Molina, of Humane Boarder, told the National Journal. Proponents are now looking to an alternate method to pass some type of legislation to push along the reform movement.
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