Diaz-Balart: If we don’t move on immigration, Obama will go it alone

*There is a three-and-a half month window for the GOP to act on immigration. This isn’t to say that immigration reform is possible, but it does say that if House Republicans don’t move on a vote, the President will move on executive action. It would be a big political loss for the GOP. VL

By Greg Sargent, The Washington Post

A leading Latino Republican is warning that if the GOP-controlled House does not move on immigration reform by the August recess, Obama will employ executive action to ease deportations on his own — making any legislative reform politically impossible until at least 2017.

That would mean that if Republicans don’t act on reform by August, they may lose their chance to place their stamp on reform — and begin to repair their Latino problem — before the next presidential election.

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