I was actually at a lunch at the White House with other leaders of both parties across the Capitol where Speaker BOEHNER. the incoming majority leader and I. and the current majority leader said to the President: Please dont do this. Dont poison the well. Give us a chance to do our job as the new majority in the House and the Senate to try to pass consensus immigration reform bills and put them on your desk. The President ignored that. So the President chose to poison the well and to make it harder for us to do what we know we all have to do. and that is to fix our broken immigration system to the best of our ability. The Presidents reckless Executive actions have done further damage. They are deeply unfair to people who have been waiting patiently in line according to the written immigration lawsthe people who have been playing by the rules. To allow millions of people simply to jump ahead of those people who have been waiting patiently in line and playing by the rules is profoundly unfair. At a time when our economy is starting to recover from the financial crisis in 2008 and the policies that have intervened. we know that there is potential harm to hardworking middle class families who are already living on stagnant wages and a rising cost of living to have millions more people eligible for work permits under the Presidents purported authority in these Executive actions. We ought to be careful about that. we ought to be deliberative about that. and we ought to make sure we are doing the sorts of things that will protectnot harmhardworking middle class families. But the President has ignored all that and just done it his way.
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