IMMIGRATION REFORM BATTLE IS ABOUT TO GET UGLY (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Sunday, November 16, 2014, 20:18

House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama are headed for a showdown over immigration

The post-mid-term era of good feelings is officially over. Its life span was measured in days, if not hours.

Pledges by both Republicans and Democrats to work together to tackle the nation's problems were never really taken seriously by anyone in Washington, but even that veneer of comity has been stripped bare, as battle lines quickly form over immigration reform.

The proximate cause of the impending "total war" between the parties, as Bloomberg's David Weigel puts it, is word President Barack Obama plans to take unilateral executive action on immigration policy.

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