Tamar Jacoby: Obama Must Accommodate Public Opinion

"After three months of bitter, unrelenting debate, 60 percent of voters are still strongly in favor of the law. Proponents of immigration reform, including the president, have largely ignored this support for the law, writing it off as anti-immigrant, if not downright bigoted. But the truth is there can be no hope of passing an immigration overhaul opposed by 60 percent of the public," says Tamar Jacoby. Jacoby says that Obama should embrace enforcement as part of a "compromise" that would include amnesty.

Meanwhile, John Feffer at the Huffington Post says that President Obama should not "head fake" toward the right. Taking the DHS deportation claims at face value, Feffer says "I'm not happy with the president's feints to the right in an attempt to please the anti-immigrant lobby: the law-and-order rhetoric, the support of free-trade agreements that ultimately push people into leaving their countries. But if Obama manages to drive to the basket -- and win amnesty for millions of hard-working de facto Americans -- I'll cheer the victory."