President To Promote Comprehensive Immigration Reform In SOTU

Early excerpts of the State of the Union Address reveal President Obama will make the case for comprehensive immigration reform.

“The president is going to be very respectful to the Republican initiatives to find bipartisan support for immigration reform,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told reporters. “I think you’ll see a conciliatory approach.”

The issue has been left for dead countless times because House Republicans appear uninterested in taking up the bipartisan comprehensive bill passed by the Senate last year and have shown little urgency in advancing their own preferred piecemeal series of bills. But new reports this week on House GOP leadership’s thinking suggest that they might be seriously considering advancing the issue in their chamber.

With those recent developments in mind, House Democrats told reporters Tuesday that they anticipate Obama will be “respectful” of the GOP’s apparent thawing in his State of the Union. They don’t believe he’ll challenge Republicans on the issue, make too explicit demands or announce any executive orders that would indicate he plans to circumvent Congress on immigration policy.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.