The majority of Americans want illegals to be provided a path to citizenship or legal status. When the details are spelled out, a vast 3/4 majority want illegals to have a path to citizenship or legal status. This means Republicans are going against three out of four people, including those within their own ranks.
Republicans can keep bowing and scraping to the extremist elements and pay the price, or they can wise up and fly straight.
Obama is going to extend protection to those people he believes that immigration reform will ultimately provide a path to citizenship or legal status. He is not granting amnesty. This needs to be understood clearly. He is not granting amnesty.
Obama is simply choosing not to kick out those people that 75% of Americans believe ought to have a shot at citizenship or legal status.
It is as simple as that.
Congress could have easily already achieved this, but the GOP has been bowing and scraping to the extremist elements instead. And that is how we have arrived at this crossroads. The GOP and its subservience to bigots has brought us here. They thought they could get away with playing hardball and that Obama would cave.
Surprise! He can play hardball, too.
Now the Republicans need to wise up and listen to the 75% of Americans who want these people to have a path to citizenship or legal status. Or the GOP can continue on as a suicide cult and fellate the bigots and pay the price in 2016.
The ball is in their court.