If he thought HE needed to be the one to open the discussion, where the hell has he been? Some of us have been clamoring for YEARS over the issue! And by the way, deporting people who shouldn't be here and making sure they don't cross into the U.S. to begin with seems a pretty simple and workable policy to me.
During his first campaign for president, he said he wanted to reform Soash' Security. Critics said he shouldn't mention the "third rail" in politics, yet he did, he got elected, and 3 years later hardly anything has been reformed. It is a slooow process. So will immigration policy be a slow process. At least he is willing to look at the problem.
He's looking at it the wrong way. I know he wants to be the "compassionate conservative" and help EVERYONE, but damn it we can't afford it, and the states can't afford it. Illegals will break California. And slow process or not, the very fact he's proposing such lunacy is an alarming signal at the least!