sfoo well, it gives cover to republicans who oppose it. it also smokes the party out wheredlogically. if it's not going to be a conversation anymore about sealing the borders and self-deporting, latinos or other immigrants, undocumented people felt deporting, then what is it -- he sets an agenda. the same thing when he let the country into world war ii, he got out many front, he drove a hard agenda, pulled back when he thought he could, and then put the pressure on them to come up with something. he knows the republican party is intensely divided about this. they are driven idealogically still even at this late date by the tea party, and you're looking at polling surveys on the tea party and see where they stand on immigration and a point worth making that gets overlooked is back in the day whether there were all kinds of ethnic division among competing groups, it was who gets the job? no irish need apply. that's not what it's about