Is Obama Using Latinos on Immigration?

Syndicated columnist Ruben Navarrette has been doing it for months, but now more Latino political leaders are criticizing President Obama for failure to act on immigration.

Their reasoning is this: Obama has emphasized the need for comprehensive immigration reform many times, but this is just political posturing initiated to galvanize Hispanic support. The president pledged to pass a measure that includes tighter security at the border and a path to legalization for the nation's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in his first year in office, but that hasn't happened.

The counterargument, of course, is that Obama can't do anything without backing from an unruly Congress.

But it turns out that may not be the case.

In a column posted Saturday, Andres Oppenheimer of the Miami Herald argues that Obama could actually take several steps toward changing immigration policy without congressional approval. These include stopping deportation of undocumented students and delaying deportation of illegal immigrant parents who have U.S.-born children.

It's a persuasive argument, and you can read the entire column here:

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/28/2240616/obama-is-deceiving-hispanics-on.html