I think 0bama will push for amnesty, not because he likes or cares about Hispanics, but because his needs the 12 million new voters to continue his Extrteme Marxist Makeover of America.
0bama has actually advocted discrimination against Hispanics.
“...while everyone agrees that the Hispanic population has grown, they cannot expand by taking African-American seats.”
I think that depends on how things go with matters unrelated to immigration that he feels are important. He certainly doesn’t give a rat’s about Hispanics, and he is deceptive and unscrupulous. If he allows his head to continue to expand at the rate it is expanding now, he might chance it. But he also might think about how that one issue finished off Bush’s support. BO was very dependent on the independent vote last time. He will have to calculate whether that portion of the electorate would go along with amnesty granted during an economic downturn and still support him. His popularity is already slipping. Another terror attack could finish off the amnesty idea, regardless of how the terrorists got into our country. Meanwhile, BO has quietly and effectively planted pro-amnesty, pro-open border appointments throughout his government in second- and third-tier positions, and they are doing their thing, hence the release of the Washington illegals, the guarding of Mexico’s border rather than ours, and that whole mess.