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You sure about that? While the idea that there should be a way for illegal immigrants to find work legally in the US is popular, Obama's executive action is not.
Obama's been pretty successful as painting his executive actions as a response to Congress's inability to do much of anything.
Yes. But it's largely been his own party making it so congress doesn't do much about immigration. When the Dems had a huge majority in both houses *and* the White House, they did nothing on immigration. When the GOP gained a majority in the house, they tried to pass immigration reform (which was initially bipartisan until Obama stepped in). The Dems blocked it.
When your own party blocks actual immigration reform and then you "respond" to that with an executive action, it's clear that you really want executive actions, not reform. And that's a problem for a lot of different groups of people.
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Republicans are mostly opposed to passing anything Obama supports, even if they say they aren't.
Um... Because most of the stuff Obama supports is either stupid or damaging to the country, or both. You haven't noticed that Republicans actually run (and win) on their opposition of Obama's agenda. That should speak volumes right there at how unpopular Obama's actions are outside of the liberal echo chamber.
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They certainly aren't trying to pass any other immigration legislation other than undoing Obama's executive action.
They did try. They failed. Then Obama decided to use executive actions to "fix" the problem his own party created (arguably that he created since Dems were on board with the original immigration proposals until Obama started meeting with them and seemingly told them to block it instead).
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They could if they wanted to & Obama would certainly sign it...
You are incredibly naive if you think this. Obama would not sign any immigration reform that had the vaguest appearance of having come from the GOP, or even with the cooperation and support of the GOP. The value in being able to paint Republicans as anti-immigrant is too great to lose it by actually doing something good.
What I find ironic is that you have no problem accepting the idea that Republicans oppose anything and everything Obama does just for political reasons, but have a blind spot to seeing the exact same thing being done by Obama and the Democrats
right now in front of you. The Democrats have no interest in actually legalizing these workers. The value to keeping them illegal and under constant threat and fear of deportation is just too great politically to give up. And they will block any attempt to fix the problem, doubly so if proposed by the GOP. Just look at the Dems actions in this area over the last 6 years.
You seriously don't see a pattern here? When they had the power to fix any of a number of issues to their own specification, they chose not to. Gay Marriage? Immigration Reform? Gun Control? They don't want to actually reform/fix these things. They want to fight over them. It should be abundantly obvious to even a casual political observer that this is true.