Washington Times
By Dave Boyer
September 8, 2014
President
Obama is “willing to take a little heat” from immigration advocates and
pundits for delaying an executive order on immigration until after the
mid-term elections,
his spokesman said Monday.
Mr.
Obama “has not in any way altered his commitment or interest’ in taking
executive action, said press secretary Josh Earnest. But the president
believes he should not
inject such an action into the “hyper partisan” atmosphere before the
election, he said.
The
president said in an interview aired Sunday that he will postpone his
action, which he promised by the end of the summer, until sometime after
the election. Critics
including immigration advocates and Republicans said Mr. Obama
postponed his decision to spare some endangered Senate Democrats in
their reelection bids, fearing that a move to grant amnesty to millions
of illegal immigrants could fire up Republican voters.
Mr.
Earnest said the president delayed his decision because he wants his
eventual action to be “sustainable and enduring.” He said issuing an
executive order before the
election would “subject this issue to gross distortion and
partisanship.”
Mr.
Obama vowed in June to issue an executive order on immigration after
House Republicans said they would not address the issue this year.
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