The Issue: President Obama’s immigration-reform plan and a related proposal from eight US senators.
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The “Gang of 8” is wasting its time. If President Obama doesn’t like what he sees, he’s going to bypass Congress and act unilaterally (“Immigration: Fix it!” Editorial, Jan. 30).
He did so with some of his recess appointments, and he’s trying to do it again with his 23 gun-control measures.
And don’t forget that he already acted on his own regarding illegal aliens who came to the US as minors.Al Burns
Far Rockaway
Obama has called for immigration “reform,” but he’s showing no respect for the laws he has sworn to uphold.
There are currently 4.5 million first-preference relatives of legal immigrants in a seven-year waiting line.
Why should they step aside to accommodate lawbreakers?
Brad Morris
Astoria
If Congress had simply approved the building of a working border wall in 1986, there would not be an illegal-immigration problem today.
Joe McNiesh
Staten Island
Why does the president have to spend more than nine hours flying to Las Vegas, at great cost, to give a 25-minute speech about immigration, when he could deliver an address just as easily from Washington and take advantage of the advanced communications technology in the nation’s capital?
We should be looking to cut costs, and Obama should be showing leadership on spending.
How is the cost of his flight justified?
Barry Levy
Hawthorne, Calif.