Politico’s "Playbook" morning email author Mike Allen and its executive editor Jim Vandehei wrote on Thursday morning that immigration overhaul efforts will be on hold until 2017 because of President Barack Obama’s decision to seek congressional authorization to militarily strike Syria.
“The fall must-do list for Congress was already so crowded that House Republicans were spreading the word that there was unlikely to be time to finish an immigration package – a handy, albeit probably accurate, excuse,” Allen and Vandehei wrote in a piece that detailed how Syria affects the congressional calendar. “Until a few weeks ago, Hill strategists in both parties had said they thought immigration had a chance in 2015. Now, the smart money is on 2017.”
The new conventional wisdom prediction of any sweeping legislation being pushed back until 2017 is a marked change from what those in the establishment were predicting just weeks ago. At the end of 2012 and throughout the first half of 2013 all the way up until now, many people in the political establishment had predicted America’s at least 11 million illegal aliens would have amnesty by the beginning of the August congressional recess. Thus far, they have failed.
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