Inside Barack Obama's Hispanic strategy

Yet even as the Obama charm offensive continues, the administration is faced with twin political challenges that ultimately may threaten any good will they’ve won from Hispanics – how he handles immigration reform and his first Supreme Court nomination. Hispanic leaders say their voters are watching.

“He will ultimately be judged by the Hispanic community on what he does for the weakest and most vulnerable,” said Rep. Luis Gutierrez, the veteran Chicago Democrat, referring to the issue on which he’s become a national leader, comprehensive immigration reform.

Gutierrez said he and fellow Hispanic officials appreciate the wooing and White House invites, but want action on the issue of providing illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. And he doesn’t mince words about what he sees as White House foot-dragging on the issue, which proved difficult to tackle even in better economic times.
“If Rahm thinks he can get away with not doing anything on immigration and still have the support of Latino voters, it won’t get done,” said Gutierrez, who has had a long and at times contentious relationship with his fellow Chicago


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That's just obvious. Yesterday I posted a news on he is cutting the budget from NJ counties from aiding the enforcement on illegal immigrations. He put those 2 millions dollars into the border security project which he mentioned it in his last media conference. This is a great news. He wasn't playing two sides game with us.

But yes, it's obvious he must do it ASSP. He can still get the support from the voters, and surely he will win the 2nd nomination from Democratic party. But he must prove his promises.

At the end of the article it also says.
Maybe this is the reason why he hasn't really pushed a broad immigration reform bill because the support is shaky at the moment.

Hmmm, I guess you could look at it two ways. We could see it as we don't have the votes for CIR right now before any lobbying efforts. But he did say "probably not yet" with the key word being "yet." It could also be a political tactic to push people to activism because people would sit back if they knew the votes were in the bag. In the next lines of that article, the President asked Piolin to have his back when the time comes and Piolin offered his support.

Do you think this is the reason why agjobs was introduced on the same day? Maybe Sen. Feinstein doesn't see the comprehensive route working out.