Obama to go it alone on immigration, pleasing few
Obama on collision course with GOP with go-it-alone strategy on immigration


WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's abrupt shift from seeking immigration legislation to pursuing a go-it-alone executive strategy raises expectations among immigration advocates that Obama may have trouble satisfying while setting up a clash with House Republicans who've already threatened to sue him.

Limited in his powers to ease deportations and under pressure to crack down on a tide of Central American children entering the U.S. without their parents, Obama has only so many options to tackle an immigration conundrum complicated by a midterm election that could cost him Democratic control of the Senate.

Obama on Monday blamed Republican resistance for the demise of sweeping immigration legislation and vowed to bypass Congress to patch up the system. "If Congress will not do their job, at least we can do ours," Obama said.

But seeking to slow deportations while simultaneously stemming the flow of young people across the U.S. Southern border presents Obama with a knotty set of policy choices.

He has asked Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Attorney General Eric Holder for recommendations by the end of summer on the types of executive actions he could take to address some of the aims of a comprehensive bipartisan bill that passed the Senate last year. Among the steps he could consider would be to focus deportations on people with serious criminal records, something the administration has already tried to do, with mixed results.

For now, White House officials say he will refocus resources from the interior of the country to the border.

Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, and Eliseo Medina, the union's secretary treasurer, were among those at the meeting and praised Obama's decision to move on his own in the absence of congressional action. But they urged caution on how to deal with the influx of young people.

I heer that thar cowboy is gonna round hisself up some lawers and git all dim po chilren all lawer-up! He needs hisself some mo tax dollars to pay dim layers!

There was no mention of stopping the problem.

As usual, govt creates a problem so they can claim it needs to be fixed...... and that always requires them to create committees, raise taxes, borrow or print more to fund it, and it should only take a year or two to figure out it has gotten too out of hand to solve, so they raise taxes again and borrow more money, to form another committee that takes another couple of years.....

and on and on

Yea, that 2 billion dollars would build a nice border fence.

I hope that Congress cuts off any funding he needs.

Ironically, Obama already has all the law he needs to protect our borders. He simply chooses not to follow the law.

Bring on the National Guard!

This reminds me of the Muriel boatlift that Fidel Castro dumped on Jimmy Carter.

What would Obama do if 1000 terrorists a day crossed the border?

Arm them, send them to school and put them on welfare

You left out "Give them a job in his administration!"

Then the Clinton-Administration deports one Cuban Boy,who should have had every Right to remain in the US!
Collected him with a SWAT-Team,courtesy of Janet Reno and Eric Holder!

that is what I heard and in his own words.. in away he invited more to come in ... yep ... thats whats happening ... our guards down there for our borders are being baby sitters ...while others walk right on through ... shakes head ...

You are referring to a 6-year-old boy who was being kept separated from his father.

I watched a discussion on CNN this morning about the border crisis. There was much discussion about how the Republicians won't pass any bills to cure the problem and ZERO discussion about Obama being, in any way, at fault for the crisis.

Sending the National Guard would largely solve the problem.

Seal the border.

It's not Immigration reform he wants it's called "get out the latino vote".