SCOTUS Choice could buy time on immigration
I knew the choice of Sotomayor, would calm the hispanic commuinity and help obama avoid the issue of amnesty. He can know claim that he supports Hispanics and still avoid giving amnesty.
Choice could buy time on immigration
By Silla Brush and Jared Allen
Posted: 05/26/09 08:35 PM [ET]
President Obama’s decision to nominate federal appeals court Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court may help him delay a thornier challenge: what to do with millions of illegal immigrants living in the United States.
The nomination of the first Hispanic justice drew praise Tuesday from the Latino community at a time when many are growing anxious over inaction on broad legislation that would put illegal immigrants — most from neighboring Mexico — on a path to citizenship. Hispanic lawmakers have been pressing Obama to deliver for a key demographic that helped put him in office, with immigration reform the top priority.
The White House has yet to commit fully to taking up broad immigration policy changes this year, with Obama instead pushing forward in tough fights over healthcare, climate change and closing the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Former President George W. Bush twice failed to enact “comprehensive immigration reformâ€
