INTERVIEW – W. James Antle III – the Washington Examiner’s politics editor

Topic: Immigration in the new year

•  When Congress returns, negotiations over Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals, former President Obama’s directive to shield some young undocumented immigrants from deportation, will resume and intensify.
•  The familiar pattern has been for immigration hawks to hold up any bill offering legal status to a significant number of illegal immigrants until their demands for border security and interior enforcement are satisfied; legalization boosters point to the enforcement measures already in their legislation as proof these demands are insatiable and cast the restrictionists as anti-amnesty absolutists.