White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is the Obama administration insider who is often quoted as saying that immigration will be kept off the table until the president is safely re-elected. So it is significant that the Wall Street Journal reported late last week that Emanuel now supports action (though the story leaves it up in the air whether Emanuel’s views have actually changed or whether Obama is vetoing them). How real this shift is will say a lot about how serious Obama’s efforts at overhauling immigration will be.
