The Toxic Politics of Immigration
Election fears lead Obama to cast aside reform for now
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President Barack Obama has heaped another indignity atop the nation’s sorry failure to reckon with immigration realities. There will be no executive action to ease the plight of undocumented immigrants, Obama said, before the midterm elections.
With that announcement, which broke his earlier promise, Obama made it all but official: Everyone in Washington is scared of immigration reform.