More Political Maneuvering on Immigration Reform?

Wall Street Journal

By Jim Manley

May 28, 2014

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/05/28/more-political-maneuvering-on-immigration-reform/?blog_id=24&post_id=45948&mod=wsj_valettop_email

President Obama has reportedly asked the Department of Homeland Security to delay–for now–its ongoing review of the administration’s deportation policies.

Meanwhile, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who finds himself under pressure thanks to a tea-party primary challenge, has decided to play the immigration card by bragging in new campaign advertising of blocking amnesty for “illegal aliens.”

The spin out of the White House is that it is delaying the DHS review to go the extra mile and demonstrate to House Republicans that the administration is serious about working with them in good faith to achieve immigration reform. Now, that may be true, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said last week that if the House does not act by the start of the August recess, the administration could take steps on its own.

Taken together, it sure looks like this delay is more about clearing the field of any and all excuses as Democrats get ready to pound away at Republicans in the fall for their inability to act on immigration reform.

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