A sorry record on immigration

Opinion: Navarrette: A sorry record on immigration - San Jose Mercury News: "SAN DIEGO -- President Barack Obama is returning to the scene of the lies.
He is scheduled to speak in the next few days at the annual meeting of the National Council of La Raza, one of the nation's largest Latino advocacy groups. The event, in Washington, is expected to draw 25,000 people.
It was during a speech to this same group in July 2008 that then-candidate Obama played the role of simpatico to the Latino community. He condemned immigration raids where 'communities are terrorized,' declared that it was time for a president who 'won't walk away from something as important as comprehensive (immigration) reform,' promised that he would make it 'a top priority' in the first year of his presidency, and insisted that the United States 'cannot and should not deport 12 million people.'
Now, Obama has become what he once criticized. He walked away from immigration reform, continued the raids that terrorize immigrant communities and deported nearly 1 million people. And he has done this not to clear the way for comprehensive reform, but because he sees a political benefit to being tough on illegal immigrants. In the United States, most of the undocumented population is from Mexico, and -- as the head of an immigrant advocacy group told me bluntly -- 'no one ever lost an election by being hard on Mexicans.'"