President Obama was asked about immigration reform at a press conference earlier this week in a manner that some have said represents a retreat on moving forward on immigration reform — at least until next year: Accoring to the LA Times blog, President Obama admitted that the current system “is putting a strain on border communities who oftentimes have to deal with a host of undocumented workers, and it keeps those undocumented workers in the shadows, which means they can be exploited at the same time they are depressing U.S. wages.” Obama says he hopes to convene a “working group to start looking at a framework of how this legislation might be shaped.” In the meantime, he says, he is taking administrative steps in order to persuade the American people that immigration reform law can really be executed, such as working on strengthening border security. On the other hand, he added, attention must be paid to the employers who are essentially “inviting workers in.”
KJ
