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| Picture from the article: President Obama defends himself against charges he is the "deporter in chief" at a forum with two Latino television hosts. (Michael Reynolds / European Pressphoto Agency / March 5, 2014) |
WASHINGTON — With their hopes for broad legislation to overhaul
immigration policies all but dead for the year, advocates have turned
quickly to a new target: Pushing President Obama to take executive
action to ease deportations of immigrants in the country illegally.
In a coordinated,
aggressive and sharp-elbowed campaign, leaders who stood behind the
White House not long ago as the president called immigration reform his
top second-term priority are now attacking Obama for not doing enough on
his own. Dismissing Obama’s insistence that his hands are tied by the
law, advocates plan to pile on until he relents -- as he did once before
in the run-up to an election.
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