At first it seemed comprehensive immigration reform was doable. Then, over time, the administration gave out signals it would be difficult to pull off. The devil lies in mixed messages.<\/p>\n
When the DREAM Act was defeated, the president went on TV to talk about immigration reform as he knows it. He was asked if he would use administrative powers to take care of the outrageous abuses of the immigration system. This is lieu of a direct path to citizenship via a stalled CIR Bill. The answer was interesting, because Obama said it was hard to do administratively.<\/p>\n
This was an interesting stance, as it\u2019s fairly well known that putting a stop to mass deportations would be easy to do administratively. There isn\u2019t a law anywhere on the books that says or directs the Department of Homeland Security to obsessively strive for record breaking deportation numbers, which is what is happening right now. The (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At first it seemed comprehensive immigration reform was doable. Then, over time, the administration gave out signals it would be difficult to pull off. The devil lies in mixed messages. When the DREAM Act was defeated, the president went on…<\/span><\/p>\n