Immigration Executive Actions

++President Obama in Dallas set up his executive actions on immigration by unveiling his package for added security and humanitarian assistance to the recent flood of kids at the border.

++Why I say this is that it is clear that Republicans in Congress believe that filibustering the request will benefit them for the by-election. However, Jennifer Rubin in yesterday's Washington Post pointed out that polling by the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable indicate that Republicans overwhelmingly support immigration reform, enhanced border security and a path to citizenship.

++By the way, the cost of deporting all undocumented immigrants would cost in the neighborhood of $280 billion. Besides can you imagine what the world would think.

++President Obama is the Deporter-In-Chief , deporting roughly 400,000 per year, or over 2 million. He has deported more people than all the Presidents combined back to the 19th century.

++But the political dance in Texas was a setup to executive actions that President Obama discussed with the immigration activists at the White House. According to Greg Sargent in the Imperial Post ,Obama is about to lay a bomb before the mid-terms.Major Garrett in the National Journal described the meeting which La Raza was not invited to because of their criticism of President Obama. The tone was mixed. President Obama spoke harshly and callously about the children that had pour over the border recently. But before that he said he was going to go Big on immigration reform.

++In the polls that Jennifer Rubin quoted, the vast majority of Americans simply do not believe the reasons the Boehner gives for not addressing immigration reform--namely the House doesn't trust President Obama.

++Informed by Speaker Boehner that there would not be any movement on immigration reform this year,President Obama said that he would act with executive action and referred yesterday to the lack of movement on the Hill. 

++If President Obama is to beef up the border guards, he needs to move them away from other tasks. To do that, he needs to move them away from enforcement. 

++Major Garrett writes that President Obama told immigration activists that he was thinking of going DACA to the 10th power. That is not prosecuting non-documented immigrants . He said that he was thinking of allowing 5-6 million to obtain legal status and provide them with work permits. This would be a big bomb.

++In fact, John Boehner wants to include immigration in his suit. 

++Observers at the meeting with Obama believed that he simply doesn't care about the impact of these moves on the mid-terms. It would only help marginally in blue states and might negatively affect Democrats running in red states. Observers believe Obama's attitude was focused more on his legacy.