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    Obama to delay immigration action

    Sep 6, 9:51 AM EDT


    APNewsBreak: Obama to delay immigration action
    By JIM KUHNHENN

    Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Abandoning his pledge to act by the end of summer, President Barack Obama has decided to delay any executive action on immigration until after the November congressional elections, White House officials said.
    The move is certain to infuriate immigration advocates while offering relief to some vulnerable Democrats in tough Senate re-election contests.
    Two White House officials said Obama concluded that circumventing Congress through executive actions on immigration during the campaign would politicize the issue and hurt future efforts to pass a broad overhaul.
    The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the president's decision before it was announced, said Obama made his decision Friday as he returned to Washington from a NATO summit in Wales.
    They said Obama called a few allies from Air Force One and informed them of his decision, and that the president made more calls from the White House on Saturday.
    The officials said Obama had no specific timeline to act, but that he still would take his executive steps before the end of the year.
    In a Rose Garden speech on June 30, Obama said he had directed Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Attorney General Eric Holder to give him recommendations for executive action by the end of summer. Obama also pledged to "adopt those recommendations without further delay."
    Obama faced competing pressures from immigration advocacy groups that wanted prompt action and from Democrats worried that acting now would energize Republican opposition against vulnerable Senate Democrats. Among those considered most at risk were Democratic Sens. Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Kay Hagan of North Carolina.
    Obama advisers were not convinced that any presidential action would affect the elections. But the officials said the discussions around the timing grew more pronounced within the past few weeks.
    Ultimately, the advisers drew a lesson from 1994 when Democratic losses were blamed on votes for gun control legislation, undermining any interest in passing future gun measures.
    White House officials said aides realized that if Obama's immigration action was deemed responsible for Democratic losses this year, it could hurt any attempt to pass a broad overhaul later on.
    Partisan fighting erupted recently over how to address the increased flow of unaccompanied minors from Central America at the U.S. border with Mexico. The officials said the White House had not envisioned such a battle when Obama made his pledge June 30.
    Obama asked for $3.7 billion to address the border crisis. The Republican-controlled House, however, passed a measure that only gave Obama a fraction of what he sought and made it easier to deport the young migrants arriving at the border, a provision opposed by Democrats and immigration advocates. In the end, Congress adjourned without a final bill.
    The number of minors caught alone illegally crossing the Mexican border into the United States has been declining since June. That decrease and Congress' absence from Washington during August has taken attention away from the border for now.
    Still, the dispute over how to deal with the surge of Central American border crossers threatened to spill over into the larger debate over immigration and the fate of 11 million immigrants in the United States who either entered illegally or overstayed their visas and have been in the U.S. for some time.
    The Democratic-led Senate last year passed a broad overhaul of immigration that boosted border security, increased visas for legal immigrants and a provided a path to citizenship for immigrants illegally in the country.
    But the Republican-controlled House balked at acting on any broad measure and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, informed Obama earlier this year that the House would not act in 2014. That led Obama to declare he would act on his own.
    During a news conference Friday in Wales, Obama reiterated his determination to act on his own even as he avoided making a commitment on timing. He also spelled out ambitious objectives for his executive actions.
    Obama said that without legislation from Congress, he would take steps to increase border security, upgrade the processing of border crossers and encourage legal immigration. He also said he would offer immigrants who have been illegally in the United States for some time a way to become legal residents, pay taxes, pay a fine and learn English.
    "I want to be very clear: My intention is, in the absence of ... action by Congress, I'm going to do what I can do within the legal constraints of my office, because it's the right thing to do for the country," he said.
    The extent of Obama's authority is a matter of debate among legal experts and in Congress. Some Democrats say it would be best for Obama to let Congress act.
    But pro-immigrant groups called on Obama to stick to his end-of-summer deadline, and weighed in with a strongly worded appeal to him on Friday.
    "Being a leader requires making difficult and courageous decisions," said the letter, whose signers included the National Council of La Raza and the League of United Latin American Citizens. "It is your time to lead, Mr. President."
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    Associated Press writer Erica Werner contributed to this report.



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    But the Republican-controlled House balked at acting on any broad measure and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, informed Obama earlier this year that the House would not act in 2014. That led Obama to declare he would act on his own.
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    Obama Won't Enact Executive Amnesty Before Midterms

    by Tony Lee 6 Sep 2014, 7:55 AM PDT
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    President Barack Obama will reportedly delay his executive amnesty until after the midterm elections even though he declared that he would change as many of the country's immigration laws that he could "by the end of summer."

    Senate Democrats, fearing that executive amnesty will cost them control of the Senate, have been pressuring Obama to not act before the midterm elections. And White House officials told the New York Times on Saturday that Obama has decided to delay his executive amnesty, saying Obama "believes it would be harmful to the policy itself and to the long-term prospects for comprehensive immigration reform to announce administrative action before the elections." But White House officials told the outlet that Obama "will take action on immigration before the end of the year."

    White House aides, according to the Times, started "calling elected officials and immigration advocates Saturday morning to inform them that the president had decided not to act before the election," and Obama is "expected to talk about the issue during an interview with NBC’s 'Meet the Press,'" which will be conducted on Saturday and broadcast on Sunday.

    The White House indicated that Obama was set on granting temporary amnesty and work permits to nearly five million illegal immigrants, and, according to the Times, Obama is reportedly "more determined than ever" to grant executive amnesty. But Obama's team reportedly concluded "that an immigration announcement before November" could "cripple Democratic efforts to retain control of the Senate."

    Speaking at the NATO Summit in Wales on Friday, Obama said he received recommendations on potential executive actions from Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Attorney General Eric Holder and would act "fairly soon" after reviewing them. For pro-amnesty advocates who have demanded that Obama grant executive amnesty "now," it won't be soon enough. On Friday, La Raza CEO and President Janet Murguia said on MSNBC that her community was "done waiting" for Obama to act and demanded that Obama give temporary amnesty to up to eight million illegal immigrants.

    Critics of Obama's executive amnesty, like Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), have been hammering Obama's lawlessness and disregard for American workers. On Friday, Sessions said that the "only thing that is more shocking than Senate Democrats’ support for the President’s planned executive amnesty is the cravenness of asking him to proceed beginning the day after the midterms."

    "Once again, powerful politicians are colluding with powerful interest groups to deny you, the American citizen, the protection of your laws and your voice in government," he said. "They don’t care what you want, or what you think—they scorn and mock our good and decent citizens for wishing their laws to be enforced. Never in recent memory has the divide between the everyday citizen, and the political elite, been as wide as it is now.”

    Simply put, Sessions, who has been fiercest defender of the interests of American workers of all backgrounds during the amnesty debate, said the "immigration debate comes down to several central questions":

    *Does our country have the right to control its borders and decide who comes to live and work here?
    *Do citizens have the right to expect and demand that the laws passed by their elected representatives be enforced?
    *Should American workers get priority for jobs and wages?

    U.S Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow has also urged Obama to not enact an executive amnesty that would have a disparate impact on black workers. On Friday, the latest jobs report showed that a record number of Americans were out of the workforce and the black unemployment rate was 11.4%.

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