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President Obama said Tuesday that contributions to the U.S. by a broad patchwork of immigrants help justify the steps he took to protect workers illegally in the country. (AP)
Before President Obama's big move on immigration, the prospects for comprehensive immigration reform in the new Congress were dim. Afterward, they're arguably even dimmer.
Obama's decision to defer deportations for more than 5 million illegal immigrants has divided the American people in half -- and even improved the president'snumbers on the immigration issue -- according to new polling from Quinnipiac University and CNN. What it also appears to have done, though,is exacerbated the real problem with getting comprehensive reform done: a very motivated opposition.
This has long been themain obstacle to comprehensive reform -- i.e. some form of legalization of illegal immigrants, plus border security -- and since the executive action, the opposition is on the rise again.
The Q pollshows support for allowing illegal immigrants to apply for citizenshipfalling to its lowest point since the survey started asking the question two years ago. Fewer than half -- 48 percent -- now support a path to citizenship, down from 57 percentone year ago.
The poll also shows that 35 percent say theseimmigrants should be required to leave (the word "deportation" is not mentioned). That's a new high, and it's up nine points from the last poll.
And here's the real kicker: The shift is almost completely among Republicans. Although they supported citizenship over deportation 43 to 38 percent in November 2013, today they support deportation/involuntary departure over citizenship, 54 to 27 percent.
That's two to one -- a stunning shift. And if it's even close to accurate, there are very few Republicans in Congress who will be eager to vote for comprehensive reform in the 114th Congress. The fear of primary challenges was already strong enough when the party was split on citizenship and deportation; now it's probably overwhelming (at least in the minds of self-preservation-minded incumbents).
The changes described above, of course, might not be only a result of what Obama did. They also could be influenced by the summer border crisis, for instance.But it's pretty logical to assume that Obama's actionspushed things in this direction (and the border crisis's effect on polling pretty well dissipated in recent months).
The CNN/Opinion Research poll tells a similar tale. Although 42 percent favored the policies that Obama announced and 46 percent opposed them, it was clear where the motivation remains: with the opposition.
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Republicans have to pay attention to the Latino vote ahead of the presidential election in 2016, but they have to figure out how to do that and preserve their political base that is against rights for undocumented immigrants.
In what appears to be the start of immigration reform remaining the hot topic for the new congressional session in January, Republican lawmakers and pundits are considering several routes to fight Obama on his executive action for immigration reform and introduce their own legislation.
"What appears to be the smart move, and what they're going to do, is do immigration reform through normal legislative [channels]," Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, told The Hill. "Do it in a way that Republicans find acceptable, meaning take the border seriously [and] think of America's economic needs. Move forward on that and let them [Obama] be over in the corner stamping his feet."
Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and incoming Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., are under pressure to deny funding for the agencies overseeing Obama's executive action, which is proposing a Deferred Action program for parents that could protect 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation and a give them a chance to work in the U.S. temporarily.
Conservatives are known to be pressing their leaders to include Obama's executive action on immigration reform in the GOP's lawsuit against the White House on ObamaCare.
"The president's decision to bypass Congress and grant amnesty to millions of unlawful immigrants is unconstitutional and a threat to our democracy," the committee's chairman, Republican Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, said in a statement. "I will use every tool at my disposal to stop the president's unconstitutional actions from being implemented, starting with this oversight hearing."
The oversight hearing by the House Homeland Security Committee Meeting is to be held on Tuesday, where the Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is set to tell critics that President Obama's reform actions are "simple common sense."
The executive actions Obama announced two weeks ago will shield some 4 million immigrants living in the country illegally from deportation, as long as they've been in the U.S. more than five years and have kids who are citizens or legal permanent residents.
Johnson is scheduled to tell the committee, "The reality is that, given our limited resources, these people are not priorities for removal -- it's time we acknowledge that and encourage them to be held accountable," Johnson said in the testimony prepared for the hearing, according to The Associate Press. "This is simple common sense."
Other conservatives see both strategies as losing propositions.
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