President Obama is acting like he cares about passing a major immigration bill. He met earlier this week with pro-immigration groups to press on the need for Congress to quickly take up a reform bill. Of course, he's said this before - usually followed by comments from senior Administration people basically saying the President really didn't mean THIS year. Right now, the main plan of the White House is opposing the Arizona
immigration law in court. Nice, but this is hardly taking responsibility
for solving our immigration program.
The President also met yesterday with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.Obama reportedly said he's about to take a "new and aggressive" approach to getting reform done. He told CHC members that he'll give a very important speech on immigration tomorrow. So we'll see if there really is anything other than lip service to report.
Sorry to sound like a cynic, but right now it looks like the White House is looking to try and keep Hispanic voters from ruining the Democrats' prospects in November but without actually doing anything on immigration.