Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) suggested Sunday that President Obama might not actually want to pass immigration reform, but instead use it as a way to further alienate Latinos from the Republican Party.
“There’s not a single Republican up on Capitol Hill who believes he wants to get it done,” Santorum said on ABC’s “This Week.” They believe Obama “will put a measure that the Republicans can’t accept and then blame Republicans and then continue to drive a wedge between Republicans and Hispanics.”
Santorum said that Republicans are ready to do immigration reform and that if the president really wants to, he can get it done by leading with that issue in his second term. “If he changes that and he says, ‘no, I’m willing to actually work together and get something that we can all agree on,’ he will change the tone on Capitol Hill. Don’t expect it, but that’s what he needs to do,” Santorum said.
