Obama’s Loss on Immigration Case May Be Political Win for Party

*A silver lining for Democrats to go with this week’s 5th Circuit Court ruling on the President’s executive actions on immigration. Democratic Party operatives are looking at the long game. If everything lines-up properly the Supreme Court will deliver a ruling on the matter in late June – in the middle of the political party’s convention season and four months before the general election. Latino voters in swing states (Colorado, Nevada, Florida) will be influenced by the ramped-up rhetoric that is sure to come. VL

By Mike Dorning, Bloomberg Politics

WASHINGTON – [tweet_dis]A loss in federal court for President Barack Obama on immigration may be a political win for his Democratic Party.[/tweet_dis]

The administration’s quick decision Tuesday to take the fight to the Supreme Court throws the case into the middle of the 2016 presidential campaign and raises the visibility of an issue that is driving the nation’s growing Latino electorate away from Republicans.

[pullquote]”The Republican party has neglected the lessons of the 2012 elections.” -Senator Harry Reid[/pullquote]

Within hours of the ruling by a federal appeals court, blocking Obama from shielding more than 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation, Democrats laid blame for the country’s tangled immigration laws at the feet of Republicans. If the Supreme Court takes up the case, the battle will stoke resentments among some Latino voters toward billionaire Donald Trump and other Republican presidential candidates who have made anti-immigrant statements in their primary campaigns.

Latinos are a crucial constituency in states including Florida, Nevada and Colorado that are battlegrounds in the presidential election. They widely perceive the Republican campaign rhetoric as fanning hostility toward them, alienating even ethnic groups such as Cubans and Puerto Ricans for whom immigration policy isn’t directly relevant, said Fernand Amandi, a principal at Bendixen & Amandi, a Miami-based market research firm.

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