This Salon interview with John McCain sheds a lot of light, I’m afraid, on what advocates of so-called comprehensive immigration reform are thinking:
If I could switch gears for a second and turn to immigration reform, I saw you mention on CNN the other day that you’re pleading with the president not to issue an executive order quite yet —
Here’s my logic, real quick. My logic is that [Speaker Boehner] has now gained a larger number of members which, I believe — and I’ve been told by people around him — would allow him to override the hardcore people who under no circumstances would agree to any reform. I’m not sure he can do that … I think it’s possible that they would take it up in some form or another …
Why couldn’t the president wait two, three, four months and then act with [an] executive order? At least give this new Congress some opportunity to act, and then, if he still feels that frustrated, then I still don’t agree with it, but I understand why he would do it. You see my point?