President Barack Obama and Republican leaders are stuck on an immigration collision course following a lengthy bipartisan meeting at the White House on Friday afternoon. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and newly empowered Senate Republicans urged the president not to move forward with executive action on immigration policy, warning repeatedly that unilateral immigration policy reforms through the White House would inflame partisan tensions after Tuesday’s sweeping GOP win, according to sources in both parties briefed on the meeting. “I made clear to the president that we should tackle immigration reform together on a step-by-step basis, beginning with border security and respect for the rule of law,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said in a statement after the meeting. “Unfortunately the president’s promise to unilaterally go around Congress ignores the message voters sent on Election Day.”
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 19:00:01 +0000