Buying Time on Immigration - E.J. Dionne Jr.
May 16, 2009
By E.J. Dionne Jr.
The Obama administration has particular worries of its own. Obama won last year with overwhelming support from Latino voters who helped him carry such swing states as New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada. Latino political leaders are appropriately insistent that the president keep his promise to fix immigration and end a system that, in Obama's words, 'keeps those undocumented workers in the shadows.'
But the president's lieutenants are well aware that Obama also won in swing states where there is less sympathy for a path to legalization (Indiana, North Carolina and Ohio) and do not want to throw immigration reform into an already combustible legislative mix.
So Obama has been sending two signals simultaneously: Yes we can, but not quite yet.
The Washington Post
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