Cynical? It’s the most damaging by far. The repercussions will be felt for decades, if not forever.
I’m actually not that worried about the people coming in - they either will or will not become Americans, and most of them will.
But what really infuriates me is that Obama, instead of developing a rational immigration policy, is making this another political thing and is using the utterly clueless population of Mexico to carry it out. He’s actually cut a huge number off the Latin American quota to give it to “Muslim nations,” something that he did literally after his first inauguration, so one of the reasons illegal immigration from Mexico has increased is that legal immigration has been massively restricted in favor of Somalis, Chechens, etc. This de-facto illegalizes many Mexicans who would have come in legally years ago.
There’s a reason Mexico hates the US, and it’s because Mexico has always been a political football - but to me, this is the most egregious display ever of our callous indifference to Mexico. The ill-informed Mexican and Latin American population has probably been given both instructions and money to send their “children” here (don’t forget, that in Bambi’s new America, “children” up to age 26 are on their parents’ health plans).
Go Bambi! Get everybody to hate us!