After his re-election in November, President Obama announced that immigration reform would be his top domestic policy priority at the beginning of his second term.
Some Republican leaders, noting the president’s large margin of victory among Hispanic voters, have stressed the need for their party to be seen as supporting immigration reform as a means of improving its image among Hispanics. Immigration reform, however, is an extremely divisive national issue, and a truly comprehensive reform bill will challenge and divide within the two political parties as much as it highlights divisions between the parties.
