re: #370 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Good points and I know that executive orders would enable Obama to do little more than tinker around the edges of immigration reform. That said, I believe that the gesture would have carried weight. If Obama felt that the game wasn’t worth the candle then he shouldn’t have even mentioned it in the first place - let alone announcing that he would defer whatever action he could take until after the election.

Obama listened to the Dems who feared that immigration action would backlash on their reelection campaigns. Which appears to have been a mistake since there is little to no chance for a meaningful bill to be passed while he is in office.