Reply #24: This is from December 2009, but I believe is still relevant: [View All]

snip* during the 2008 campaign Obama did promise action on immigration reform within his first year, i.e. 2009.

Would failure send Latinos into the waiting arms of Republicans? That is very unlikely, as many Republicans have been associated with efforts to derail immigration reform. A more likely scenario is that Latinos would be less than enthusiastic about either Democrats or Republicans and may not turnout in large numbers in 2010 or 2012 if Democrats dangle immigration reform before Latinos, and then fail to make good.

– Gary Segura & Matt Barreto, Directors of Research, Latino Decisions

http://latinodecisions.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/will-latinos-abandon-the-democrats-if-immigration-reform-fails/


Of course we now have the Arizona disastrous bigoted immigration law, and thousands are demonstrating against it. If Obama and the Congress
go right, they not only will be morally wrong, they'll likely screw themselves out of votes via low voter turn out. Why would they risk so much ill will?

I have never seen Obama as a man who did not know what he wanted to do, Rahm evidently reflects his views. If that is not true in this case, he had better make that abundantly clear asap.