"The White House's immigration reform cease-fire is over.
President Barack Obama came to the Rose Garden on Monday to lay out the case: He gave House Speaker John Boehner "space" to convince his members. He kept quiet about the Republicans he knew were open to an overhaul. He avoided talking about the issue much himself.
No more.
Obama was one of the few people holding on to hope that a deal could squeak through Congress by the August recess. But even that evaporated when House Republicans reacted to Majority Leader Eric Cantor's surprise primary loss by moving firmly — and finally — away from immigration reform, and he began a crackdown on the influx of Central American children crossing the southern border, threatening to put him in opposition to immigration reform advocates."*
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