Obama Will Delay Immigration Action Until After Elections

President Obama “will delay executive action on immigration until after the midterm elections, White House officials said Saturday, a bow to political pressure from Democrats in tough Senate races who had complained the expected action could hurt their campaigns,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The delay breaks Mr. Obama’s promise, broadcast from the Rose Garden in June, that he would act on his own by summer’s end to set new policy on immigration. It was widely expected that Mr. Obama would act without Congress to scale back deportations of illegal immigrants and possibly offer work permits to many people in the U.S. illegally. Now, the White House is saying that the president will act by year’s end.”