Obama gives ultimatum to Republican critics on immigration
President Barack Obama gave a feisty rebuke to his Republican critics on immigration and an ultimatum: I can work with Republicans, if they aren’t nativist. “If your view is that immigrants are either fundamentally bad to the country or that we actually have the option of deporting 11 million immigrants, regardless of the disruptions, regardless of the cost and that that is who we are as Americans, I reject that,” the president said in an interview with NPR published on Monday. “On immigration, I probably can’t” work with them, he told NPR. “Steve King and I fundamentally disagree on immigration.” (King is an Iowa Republican who gained infamy when he said that for every successful, young illegal immigrant there are 100 with “calves the size of cantaloupes” from transporting drugs across the desert and advocates for the mass deportation of all illegal immigrants.) “On the other hand, I think there are a lot of Republicans who recognize that not only do we need to fix