Yet. again. President Obama just doesnt seem to care. He also doesnt seem to care that his Executive action would harm our opportunity to reform our broken legal immigration system. Republicans and Democrats alike have ideas for how to reform our immigration system. and many of them have bipartisan support. We do know that a comprehensive billwe have tried to pass one of those for 10 years. and it hasnt worked. so it makes sense to me to try to break it down into smaller pieces and try to build consensus for those. get them across the floor of the House and the Senate and on the Presidents deskeven on a controversial subject such as immigration. Yet the President has now appeared to decide to trample the normal legislative process and to do immigration policy by fiat. What about the 60 percent who wont be covered by his Executive order? They dont get any relief under his Executive order. They are going to need to look to Congress to know what the rules are. So in the Presidents desperate attempt to placate some very vocal activist groups and to make up for years of hollow promises. he has decided to flout the rule of law and end up making real immigration reform that much harder to pass. I saw a Congressman from South Carolina. TREY GOWDY. who said: During the first 2 years the President had 60 Democrats in the Senate and controlled the House of Representatives. If immigration reform was such a priority for the President. why didnt he do that? Well. dont just take my word for it that this will make our job much more difficult. The junior Senator from Maine. an Independent but a Member of the Democratic caucus. said of the Presidents Executive amnesty: I think it will create a backlash in the country that could actually set the cause back and inflame our politics in a way that I dont think will be conducive to solving the problem.
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