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The legislative car crash that is the Arizona immigration bill has sparked a renewed effort at the federal level to work on immigration reform.
The legislative car crash that is the Arizona immigration bill has sparked a renewed effort at the federal level to work on immigration reform.
President Barack Obama was expected to address the issue at a Cinco de Mayo celebration at the White House Wednesday.
But White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs cautioned that "immigration is a very hard issue that Congress might not finish this year."
It's unlikely that either party wanted the mid-terms to be about immigration but their combined failure to act on the issue has now blown up in their faces.
The anger over the Arizona law has moved immigration right off the back-burner where politicians like to park it.
Neither party has really taken a lead on the issue for fear of setting off the right-wing noise machine that doomed earlier efforts.
It's unlikely that either party wanted the mid-terms to be about immigration but their combined failure to act on the issue has now blown up in their faces.
It's unlikely that either party wanted the mid-terms to be about immigration but their combined failure to act on the issue has now blown up in their faces.
The anger over the Arizona law has moved immigration right off the back-burner where politicians like to park it.
Neither party has really taken a lead on the issue for fear of setting off the right-wing noise machine that doomed earlier efforts.
