But Obama said he wants more public debate on the issue. “When I take executive action, I want to make sure that it’s sustainable,” he said.
President Barack Obama is trying to blame migrant Central American “children” for the public’s lopsided rejection of his wage-cutting immigration policies.
“This problem with unaccompanied children that we saw a couple weeks ago, where you had, from Central America, a surge of kids who were showing up at the border, got a lot of attention,” he told NBC’s Chuck Todd.
“And a lot of Americans started thinking, ‘We’ve got this immigration crisis on our hands,’” he said, so “the politics did shift midsummer because of that problem.”
“No one believes that,” said a tweet from Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies, who has long argued that Obama’s plans are unpopular because they’re so disadvantageous to Americans.
On Sept. 6, White House officials said Obama had cancelled his very unpopular plans fora pre-election amnesty edict, and would instead announce his expected rollback of immigration policy before the end of the year.
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