Thread: Reports: Obama Rejected January GOP Offer on Immigration Reform

Friday, 07 Nov 2014 11:14 PM
By Cathy Burke

An offer by congressional Republicans to work on immigration reform in January was flatly rejected by President Barack Obama, reports said Friday.

At a post-midterm election lunch and meeting that lasted two hours, House Speaker John Boehner warned Obama not to take executive action to stem deportations or allow a flood of new immigrants in, the Washington Examiner reports.

"The speaker warned that unilateral action by the president on executive amnesty will erase any chances of doing immigration reform and will also make it harder for Congress and the White House to work together successfully on other areas where there might otherwise be common ground," a spokesman told the newspaper.

Instead, Boehner asked Obama to let Republicans work on reforming and modernizing immigration early in the new session, Wyoming Republican Sen. John Barrasso told Reuters.

According to Reuters, an unnamed congressional source said Vice President Joe Biden asked Boehner how long he needed to pass a bill: "February 15? March 15?" The source also said Obama was visibly irritated and stopped Biden.

But a Democratic congressional source disputed the account, telling the news service: "At no time did the President cut off the Vice President," Obama as "courteous and firm" during the immigration discussion.

Afterward, Maryland Democrat Rep. Steny Hoyer told CNN Obama's right move ahead with immigration reform, saying: "Families are being wrenched apart, children are being left without a parent or parents, and that is unacceptable. But he also made it very clear that if the Congress acted, that would be the law, that would be the preferable option that he wants."

Reuters said the lunch with congressional leaders was "somber and slightly uncomfortable during a brief four-minute photo op," with Obama squeezed between Boehner and Nevada Democrat Sen. Harry Reid, who'll give up his title as Senate majority leader in the new Congress due to the wave of Republicans who've swept Democrats from power.

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/rep.../07/id/606125/

'Bama is all about 'Bama, so I presume that he'll proceed with amnesty.

Repubs have already benefited from Americans' anger at 'Bamacrats. Now all they have to do is not trip over themselves, and they'll have an excellent chance of regaining the White House, as well.

In the meantime, of course, more Americans will be undercut for jobs by another wave of illegals. The poorest Americans will be particularly hard hit. They thought that 'Bama would be their savior, now they're beginning to realize that he cares much more about his precious Undocumented Democrats than he ever will care about them. Yikes.
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And how do these republicans leaders define "immigration reform?" We all know the answer by now. I think that is what all the "elect more republicans" clamor was about. Amnesty is what the republicans will do for more contributions for the Presidential in '16. "We delivered, now help us spend for winning the presidency!"