Politico
By Edward-Isaac Dovere
October 9, 2014
SANTA
MONICA, Calif. — President Barack Obama on Thursday said he still
believes Republicans will move on immigration reform — anything else, he
said, would be “suicide.”
But “it’s anybody’s guess how Republicans are thinking about this,” he said at a town hall event here.
Obama
said that even if there isn’t legislation passed in the expected
lame-duck session of Congress in December, he believes it can get done
at some point over his remaining
two years in office.
Republicans,
he said, can’t ignore the sentiment from a growing number of voters
whom he said believe, “that party does not seem to care much about me
and my life.”
“I
think the smarter Republicans understand this. Short term, though,
they’ve got a problem in the tea party and others who oftentimes express
virulently anti-immigrant
sentiment,” Obama said, saying he’s confident that by 2016 at least
“Congress will see the light, because the logic of it is too
compelling.”
Obama
said he’s still expecting to move on his own on immigration reform,
while acknowledging that he’d already backed away from his promise to do
so at the end of the
summer — which he once again blamed on the politics of the border
crisis. But he warned people not to expect that any executive action
would be much more limited than legislation.
His position, he argued, is the only one that’s logical.
“My
general theory is that if something makes a lot of sense that we should
go ahead and do it, rather than not do it,” Obama said. “But that’s
just me.”
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