Monday, July 29, 2013

Obama Says Immigration Must Be Considered as Package

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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