White House: President Pressed for Time on Immigration Reform
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An offer by congressional Republicans to work on immigration reform in January was flatly rejected by President Barack Obama, reports said Friday.
At a post-midterm election lunch and meeting that lasted two hours, House Speaker John Boehner warned Obama not to take executive action to stem deportations or allow a flood of new immigrants to enter the country, the Washington Examiner reports.
"The speaker warned that unilateral action by the president on executive amnesty will erase any chances of doing immigration reform and will also make it harder for Congress and the White House to work together successfully on other areas where there might otherwise be common ground," a spokesman told the newspaper.
Instead, Boehner asked Obama to let Republicans work on reforming and modernizing immigration early in the new session, Wyoming Republican Sen. John Barrasso told Reuters.
According to Reuters, an unnamed congressional source said Vice President Joe Biden asked Boehner how long he needed to pass a bill: "Feb. 15? March 15?" The source said Obama was visibly irritated and stopped Biden.
But a Democratic congressional source disputed that account, telling the news service, "At no time did the President cut off the Vice President." The source described Obama as "courteous and firm" during the immigration discussion.
Afterward, Maryland Democrat Rep. Steny Hoyer told CNN Obama's right to move ahead with immigration reform, saying: "Families are being wrenched apart, children are being left without a parent or parents, and that is unacceptable. But he also made it very clear that if the Congress acted, that would be the law, that would be the preferable option that he wants."
Reuters said the lunch with congressional leaders was "somber and slightly uncomfortable during a brief 4-minute photo op," with Obama squeezed between Boehner and Nevada Democrat Sen. Harry Reid, who'll give up his title as Senate majority leader in the new Congress because of the wave of Republicans who've swept Democrats from power.
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By Jeremy Diamond, CNN
updated 7:41 AM EST, Fri November 7, 2014
Washington (CNN) -- David Axelrod, President Barack Obama's former senior adviser, said Thursday on Twitter that Obama should pause on executive action on immigration in exchange for a vote on immigration reform in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
Obama vowed this summer to reform the U.S. immigration system unilaterally after Congress failed to pass legislation, but then delayed action until after the midterms. He has now pledged to take executive action before the end of the year.
Axelrod noted that the Senate passed a bipartisan immigration reform bill in summer 2013 and suggested the House should be pressured into voting on the bill.
But even the bipartisan bill that passed the Senate has since lost support from even one of its most aggressive lobbyists, Republican Senator and potential 2016 presidential candidate Marco Rubio.
Axelrod's strategy could put congressional Republicans -- who will have a majority in both houses come January -- in a bind.
But the New York Times' editorial board urged Obama to ignore the voices urging Obama to hold off on executive action.
"Do it. Take executive action. Make it big," the editorial in Friday's paper reads. "Six fruitless years is time enough for anyone to realize that waiting for Congress to help fix immigration is delusional."
The editorial board argued that Obama should give temporary protections to a broad group of illegal immigrants, allowing them to live and work "without fear" and instead focusing on violent criminals in the U.S. illegally.
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