WSJ - President Barack Obama on Tuesday said overhauling the immigration system should be
considered as a complete package in Congress, which is at odds with how House
Republicans want to approach immigration legislation, and said it didn’t make
sense to try to change the system without giving illegal immigrants a path to
citizenship.
“The danger of doing it in pieces is that a lot of groups want different
things,” Mr. Obama said in an interview with affiliates of the Spanish-language
news station Telemundo. He likened breaking up immigration system in pieces to
trying to get his children to eat food they don’t like, saying “If you’ve eaten
your dessert before you’ve eaten your meal, at least with my children, sometimes
they don’t end up eating their vegetables.”
The president’s interview with affiliates of Telemundo, and other interviews
he granted Tuesday to affiliates of rival Univision, are part of the White
House’s approach to get the president to play a more visible role in the
immigration debate. The interviews contrast with his more recent
behind-the-scenes approach to the immigration debate, and could prove risky if
he uses rhetoric that inflames Republicans wary of granting citizenship to
illegal immigrants. White House officials have said the president may consider
traveling to states with a strong Latino presence to help push the debate
forward.
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