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OBAMA LEGACY: Immigration stands as most glaring failure

FILE - In this June 18, 2014 file-pool photo, detainees walk in a line at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility in Brownsville,Texas. Hours after the Supreme Court sent his immigration policy into legal limbo, President Barack Obama huddled around a long conference table in the Roosevelt Room with disappointed activists. The president looked out at familiar faces, some teary. It had been a long and tough fight, Obama said, and he had taken some beatings, even from supporters who “whupped on me good.” (AP Photo/Eric Gay, Pool, File) FILE - In this June 18, 2014 file-pool photo, detainees walk in a line at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility in Brownsville,Texas. Hours after the Supreme Court sent his immigration policy into legal limbo, President Barack Obama huddled around a long conference table in the Roosevelt Room with disappointed activists. The president looked out at familiar faces, some teary. It had been a long and tough fight, Obama said, and he had taken some beatings, even from supporters who “whupped on me good.” (AP Photo/Eric Gay, Pool, File)

By Associated Press June 30, 2016 1 min read

WASHINGTON (AP) – Immigration overhaul will stand as the most glaring failure in President Barack Obama’s 7 ½-year effort to enact his vision of social change.

Despite two campaigns full of promises and multiple strategies, Obama imposed only incremental, largely temporary changes on the immigration system. He leaves behind a system still outdated and with some 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally.

Obama’s legacy will be judged by a sometimes contradictory mix of policies. He protected roughly 730,000 young people, a generation of so-called Dreamers, who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

His administration also aggressively enforced immigration laws – deporting more than 2.4 million people.