President Obama revealed fresh resolve in pressing for immigration legislation Tuesday; challenging Republicans to join his path for reform or face the electoral consequences.
"[P]erhaps some of my Republican friends are gonna start recognizing, if they looked at the last census, that they are gonna have a very hard time winning any elections if they continue to deliberately target anti-immigration sentiment," the president told Spanish-language Univision TV Tuesday in El Salvador.
"I find it ironic that a president who promised immigration reform and failed to deliver, like he has on so many other issues, is now criticizing the other party for issues he has done absolutely nothing on," Republican National Committee Spokesman Sean Spicer tells Fox News.
Mr. Obama has been down this road before. He pushed for passage of immigration legislation in both 2009 and 2010. Those efforts failed.
I would humbly suggest that when he said “deliberately target anti-immigration sentiment” that the President was deliberately mis-stating the republican position. The GOP is not necessarily against immigration, in fact I would say the GOP is not even anti illegal immigration.
In typical conservative discussion tactics.....don't address the issue, just say that the liberals haven't addressed the issue. It's done that way here....it's done that way in Washington. I rather like that argument, obviously the conservatives can't accomplish anything that liberals haven't dealt with......they are the party of "no......I won't till you do".
