re: #314 HappyWarrior

Anyhow listened to NPR, two of the people there said Obama should not do the immigration reform because it would make things bad with the gop the next two years. My response is A) that well was already poisoned and B) I think he owes it after not acting before.

I tend to agree that Obama shouldn’t do immigration reform through executive action. He said himself not that long ago that he didn’t have the constitutional authority to do so and anything he does will necessarily have to either skirt the line of constitutionality or go right over, and second, anything that one president does through executive action can just as easily be undone by the next president.

If I was an undocumented immigrant and a president who was not going to be president in two years gave me some sort of legal cover to come out of the shadows, but I knew the next guy could just as easily revoke that status and use the list of folks who came forward as a checklist for deportation, I would be very wary of coming out of the shadows.