With the flood of immigrants, Obama's lack of enforcement has “come home to roost.”
Fred Barnes
Immigration reform is deader than ever in 2014 and the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says President Obama is to blame.
By refusing to halt the current “surge” of illegal immigration, Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia said Thursday, Obama has made it “extremely difficult” to pass any reform of the immigration laws. Enforcement at the border must be “the leading component” of reform legislation, he said, but it isn’t happening.
Instead, the president has created a broad new exception to immigration law to permit tens of thousands of young immigrants to cross the U.S. border with Mexico and stay in this country. But he lacks the constitutional authority to make this change in the law unilaterally, Goodlatte said.
As judiciary chairman, Goodlatte is an important figure in the immigration debate. His committee passed five separate immigration bills earlier this year as part of the step-by-step approach favored by Republicans. Obama and Democrats insist that immigration reform be packaged in a single “comprehensive” bill.
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