President Barack Obama focused his brief remarks on immigration in his Monday State of the Union address on castigating partisan divide on the issue.
He entered the chamber with bright smiles and youthful charm, yet allowed the first awkward pause when cautioning against “re-fighting past battles on immigration when we’ve got to fix [pause] a broken system.”
Indeed, 25 states seek temporary injunction of Obama’s executive order that grants some 5 million illegal immigrants temporary stay. The states argue the effects of the order would be costly and burdensome.
The strongly conservative House, meanwhile, voted to defund President’s immigration executive orders last week, even though the Senate most likely has enough moderate Republicans to block the bill.
Obama also flexed his Presidential muscles saying he'd veto any bill that would try to reverse his orders on immigration.
