When President Obama met with House Republicans in March, he told them he was doing them “a favor” by pushing the immigration issue.
According to a senior Republican in the meeting, Obama told House members that he was “doing you all [Republicans] a favor” by highlighting the immigration issue, since he had received about 75 percent of the Hispanic vote and the current debate offers the GOP a chance to impress the demographic.
Other topics discussed at the meeting, as reported at the time, included sequestration and the Keystone pipeline.