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BARACK OBAMA SPEAKS AT SAINT PETER #39;S COLLEGE 2008
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Bowing to political concerns, President Obama will not announce any plans to take executive action to change immigration policy until after the November elections, despite promising in June he would act before the end of summer.
White House officials began informing lawmakers and advocacy groups of the decision, with calls going out late Friday and continuing into Saturday morning, according to several people familiar with the decision.
The decision comes just a few days after Obama hinted that he might delay a decision as he continues to call on Congress to take steps to overhaul the nation's immigration laws.
Senate Democrats have warned that any bold executive action ran the risk of upending the chances of several Democratic incumbents running for reelection in southern states, where Obama is unpopular and the issue of immigration reform isn't as urgent. Republicans must win six seats to take control of the Senate.
In an interview set to air Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Obama defended his decision to wait.
"When I take executive action, I want to make sure that it's sustainable, Obama said in a clip from the interview released Saturday afternoon. "What I'm saying is that I'm going to act because it's the right thing for the country. But it's going to be more sustainable and more effective if the public understands what the facts are on immigration, what we've done on unaccompanied children [on the southern border], and why it's necessary."
A White House official, who was not authorized to speak on the record, also defended the decision. "The reality the president has had to weigh is that were in the midst of the political season and because of the Republicans extreme politicization of this issue, the president believes it would be harmful to the policy itself and to the long-term prospects for comprehensive immigration reform to announce administrative action before the elections."
Republicans, who have vehemently denounced the president's plans to take executive action, quickly declared the delay a result of cold political calculation.
"There is a never a right time for the president to declare amnesty by executive action," House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) said in a statement, "but the decision to simply delay this deeply-controversial and possibly unconstitutional unilateral action until after the election - instead of abandoning the idea altogether - smacks of raw politics."
The decision is likely to infuriate many Democrats who have said Obama taking executive action before the elections could embolden Democratic base voters to turn out in key elections. And it definitelywill infuriate members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, who have been pressuring Obama to take action since he took office in 2009.
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Obama to delay executive action on immigration until after election
In a Rose Garden speech on June 30, Obama said he had directed Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Attorney General Eric Holder to give him recommendations for executive action by the end of summer. Obama also pledged to "adopt those recommendations without further delay."
Obama faced competing pressures from immigration advocacy groups that wanted prompt action and from Democrats worried that acting now would energize Republican opposition against vulnerable Senate Democrats. Among those considered most at risk were Democratic Sens. Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Kay Hagan of North Carolina who represent states carried by Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election.
Obama advisers were not convinced that any presidential action would affect the elections. But the officials said the discussions around the timing grew more pronounced within the past few weeks.
Ultimately, the advisers drew a lesson from 1994 when Democratic losses were blamed on votes for gun control legislation, undermining any interest in passing future gun measures.
White House officials said aides realized that if Obama's immigration action was deemed responsible for Democratic losses this year, it could hurt any attempt to pass a broad overhaul later on.
Immigration advocates blasted Obama and Senate Democrats over the decision, saying both have shown a lack of political will.
"We are bitterly disappointed in the president and we are bitterly disappointed in the Senate Democrats," said Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice. "We advocates didn't make the reform promise; we just made the mistake of believing it. The president and Senate Democrats have chosen politics over people, the status quo over solving real problems."
Cristina Jimenez, managing director of United We Dream, said the decision was "another slap to the face of the Latino and immigrant community."
"Where we have demanded leadership and courage from both Democrats and the president, we've received nothing but broken promises and a lack of political backbone," she said.
Partisan fighting erupted recently over how to address the increased flow of unaccompanied minors from Central America at the U.S. border with Mexico. The officials said the White House had not envisioned such a battle when Obama made his pledge on June 30.
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Obama to delay immigration action
Insisting that factors beyond his control had created an untenable political situation, President Obama said Saturday that he would postpone his promised executive action to make drastic changes to the immigration system a delay that leaves tens of thousands of immigrants open to deportation and millions more in limbo.
The president still plans to use his authority to make changes to the system after the November election, using the time until then to educate the public on the situation, he said in a taped interview to air Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"I'm going to act because it's the right thing for the country," Obama said. "But it's going to be more sustainable and more effective if the public understands what the facts are on immigration."
But his decision to delay changes drew ire from all sides: Republicans who still oppose any later executive action as a power grab; members of the president's own party, who see the delay as putting Democratic votes at risk; and immigration advocates, who expressed bitter disappointment and spoke of being misled by the administration after months of working together.
"Today, President Obama let the politics of fear get in the way of standing up for justice and fairness," said Marielena Hincapi, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, one of more than 180 Latino, Asian American, labor and religious groups that had encouraged the president to act.
Obama's decision reverses a public promise he made to those supporters in June. Frustrated by Congress' lack of action, he vowed at the time to use the power of his office to overhaul the system at the end of the summer. White House officials had signaled that the president was considering drastic changes that would allow millions of immigrants living in the country illegally to temporarily avoid deportation.
The pressure to act grew complicated as a wave of thousands of unaccompanied minors from Central America began arriving at the border over the spring and summer, crowding detention centers and rocketing immigration into the headlines.
Eventually, the self-imposed deadline proved too big of a political risk, and Obama partly blamed that surge and the subsequent public outcry and confusion over it for his decision to postpone action.
"The politics did shift midsummer because of that problem," he said in the television interview, adding: "I also want to make sure that the public understands why we're doing this, why it's the right thing for the American people, why it's the right thing for the American economy."
In the meantime, he was left to grapple with the fallout of further delay.