Obama defends decision to delay immigration action

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Saturday that the surge of immigrant children entering the U.S. illegally changed the politics surrounding the issue of immigration and led him to put off a pledge to use executive action that could shield millions of people from deportation.

Immigration reform advocates criticized Obama after White House officials said that the president would not act at summer's end as he promised in June but would take up the matter after the midterm elections in November. In an interview taped for NBC's "Meet the Press," Obama rejected the charge that the delay was meant to protect Democratic candidates worried that his actions would hurt their prospects in tough Senate races.

By Obama's own calculations, politics did play a role in his decision. In his remarks to NBC, which were to be aired on Sunday, he said a partisan fight in July over how to address an influx of unaccompanied minors at the border had created the impression that there was an immigration crisis and thus a volatile climate for taking the measures he had promised to take.


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In an interview taped for NBC's "Meet the Press," Obama rejected the charge that the delay was meant to protect Democratic candidates worried that his actions would hurt their prospects in tough Senate races.
 

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His reasons are fwew but pointed. 1.) His decisions will not be popular with the voters. 2.) He knows his party members up for re-election could face some serious challenges and 3.) The big business interests who are backing him may hold back and he doesn't want to see any of this take place. Too bad he is playing with the future of hundreds of thousands for the sake of political expediency.
 

The Old Medic

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This is a 100% POLITICAL DECISION. He decided to wait, because he knew that if he granted a form of amnesty, this would result in an overwhelming Republican victory in the mid-terms.

He will wait, hoping against hope that the Dem's don't lose control of the Senate, and then give the illegals everything he possibly can.

Personally, I hope to see this man Impeached, and Convicted, and thrown out of office with no pension.