Obama needs to call the GOP's bluff on immigration

The only people hurt by a GOP Congress sitting on its hands are Republicans and Latinos

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House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has a warning for President Obama, who suggested earlier this week that he would pursue immigration reform through executive action. "I've made clear to the president that if he acts unilaterally on his own outside of his authority," Boehner said, "he will poison the well and there will be no chance for immigration reform moving in this Congress."

A day earlier, Senate Majority Leader-designate Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) issued a similar warning, saying unilateral immigration reform would be like "waving a red flag in front of a bull."

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Peter Weber, The Week US

Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.