What Obama Could Do Through Executive Orders on Immigration
In a Sunday interview, the president gave clues about what he's thinking of doing on immigration reform.
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The first big battle between President Obama and the Republican-controlled Congress in the wake of the midterm elections will, in all likelihood, take place over immigration. With Obama pledging to enact a series of executive orders, and emboldened GOP Congressional leaders warning him not to, the scene has been set for a monumental clash.
Since Republicans seized control of the U.S. Senate with a string of victories nationwide, Obama has reiterated his intention to make good on a promise to take unilateral action on new immigration reforms, and he did so again on Sunday.