
Oh goodie.
Via HuffPo:
[R]ecognizing the White House’s tenuous political position, members of the Hispanic Caucus urged Obama not to back away from his vow to use his executive authority to make the immigration enforcement process more humane.
They said they were pleased with the response. Obama reiterated his commitment to finding ways he can work within the law to improve the immigration system, caucus members said.
“The president had told us last time we met with him to give him time to work this out with Republicans. … The moment has come for him to act, and he agrees,” Rep. Joe Garcia (D-Fla.) said.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) paraphrased Obama as saying, “I want to be as broad as I can be. I want to be as generous as the law will allow me to be.”
Gutierrez said Wednesday’s meeting was free of the uneasiness that colored past gatherings.
“Even though we were raising the issue in the form of a plea-slash-demand-slash ‘We love you, help us, you’re all we’ve got’ — really, it was all of those things — he was not defensive at all,” Gutierrez said. “We didn’t talk about the past, about differences, about the protests, none of that. It was about [how] we’re going to go forward.”
