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How about no executive amnesty at all?

Via Buzzfeed:

President Obama vowed he would take executive action to slow deportations before the end of 2014 — but still has not said when exactly he will do so.

The delay of the long-promised actions until after the election, instead of this summer, was meant to help vulnerable Democrats up for re-election in conservative states. Despite the delay, almost all of those candidates lost, many by wide margins.

Two prominent Democrats have, since Tuesday, floated the possibility of delaying the executive actions further until next year, and give the newly Republican Congress an opportunity to move immigration legislation first.

David Axelrod, Obama’s former chief adviser, wrote on Twitter Wednesday that delay could force the GOP hand. “Immigration bill won a huge bipartisan majority in the Senate,” he wrote. “POTUS should agree to shelve exec order for up or down vote in House.” Axelrod did not respond to an email about the tweet.

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