I would caution the right on using this as a stick with which to beat Obama. I absolutely disagree with the way in which it was done, but I support finding pathways for the children of illegal immigrants to citizenship.
What I find particularly sickening is the way Obama grabbed the limelight for political point scoring. There was a bipartisan group working on a solution that both sides could support... and Obama basically grabbed it away from them just for political point scoring. Manipulating minorities like this is transparent and racist.
So you got outmanueverd and you're butt-hurt?
The real problem the GOP has on this is that they are trapped by their own bad behavior.
The people who really run things in the GOP WANT illegal immigration. They want cheap labor that won't complain about crappy working conditions or call OSHA or the EPA. And they want it around so they can get Americans to take lower wages and not gripe about it.
But they also want to keep white people angry about the topic. They need to keep them distracted. And I'll admit, I fell for the bullshit for years.
Sensible Republicans did see a need to fix the broken system. But they got drowned out by the angry people being manipulated, tothe point where John McCain had to renounce his own sensible immigration reform package.
Can't work up a lot of sympathy here.