The Obama Administration to Back Comprehensive Immigration Reform?

As a candidate and later as President, Barack Obama pledged to support comprehensive immigration reform.  Some observers have been disappointed that the administration has done little to push immigration reform in the President’s first year in office.  Indeed, his administration has adopted a plethora of immigration enforcement measures.  Nor has the administration said much about the comprehesive immigration reform bill introduced by Rep. Luis Gutierrez in the House on December 15.

But there may be hope that the Obama administration will start to move on immigration reform in 2010.  The Baltimore Sun reports that “senior White House aides have privately assured Latino activists that the president will back legislation in 2010 to provide a road to citizenship for the estimated 12 million undocumented workers now living in the United States.”

KJ