P.S. Remember that "Alternatives to Immigration Reform" memo that was 'leaked' last year? That memo, though undated, makes references to regulations that provided immigration relief to certain military family members that President Obama signed into law in December 2009 - the fact that it was discussedindicates that he had already given up the idea of CIR, and I am 100% sure that Pelosi, Durbin, Reid, et al, knew this as long ago as Dec.2009/early 2010. This memo came from the very top, the Chief Counsel, Roxana Bacon is the head of policy at USCIS. Of course the talk about CIR/Dream was a bluff to string Hispanics into helping the Dems retain whatever seats they could in Congress. Everyone has an interest in keeping people 'illegal': The employers, ICE (so that they can keep their agents' jobs), the SSA, the 'advocates' (so they can keep their advocacy lobbies), the "Spanish" language 'market' (this includes the bottom-tier media quality of Univision, et al. They need a Hispanic market to exist).

On the other hand, ICE and CBP agents are all unionized. If the rights of federal worker' unions to bargain are terminated, then their unions will be devoid of the power to voice a vote of "lack of confidence" (read: we don't agree with your order banning us from abusing our power against 'illegals') to higher officials:

"No confidence votes" become a pattern at ICE and Border Patrol (http://www.examiner.com/county-polit...-border-patrol)

The recent 259-0 disapproval of ICE’s point man John Morton by his fellow coworkers lends itself to an unwanted pattern in federal law enforcement agencies. Just last year the U.S. Border Patrol’s union, National Border Patrol Council put forth a similar vote and declared “no confidence” in their leader, David V. Aguilar.

The unanimous “no confidence vote” from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) rank-and-file union came about because management is abandoning its mission of protecting the public in order to support a political agenda including amnesty unnerves ICE agents...

Unnerves them alright...that they will loose their jobs if CIR is passed. Maybe there's a silver lining in this after all.