[EXCERPT] The top 10 issues you’ll likely hear about in Thursday’s debate

Washington Post (The Fix)

By Amber Phillips

August 6, 2015

The top 10 issues you’ll likely hear about in Thursday’s debate  

3. Immigration

Unlike the 2012 campaign, there's no serious bid in Congress right now to reform our immigration system. Instead, President Obama has acted unilaterally to extend deportation relief to about 5 million of the estimated 11 million immigrants in the country illegally.

In 2012, he signed an executive action to protect many young people brought into the country illegally by their parents, and in 2014 he expanded those protections to undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and permanent residents. Both programs are on hold as a Texas-led lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the actions winds its way through the courts.

Separately, the GOP is still dealing with some urgency to do something about immigration -- in large part because the party is hemorrhaging Latino voters. But most Republicans who express support for a path to citizenship find themselves targeted by the conservative base. One of them is Jeb Bush, who has instead moved to calling for legal status -- rather than citizenship -- for undocumented immigrants. Don't expect any candidates on Thursday to embrace much beyond tougher immigration enforcement.

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