A more orthodox candidate might well indicate some flexibility at this point in his campaign, saying that his immediate priority as President would be raising the minimum wage, or providing free college tuition, or breaking up the banks, and relegating an ambitious health-care overhaul to the status of future goal.
For Latinos, the lack of movement toward an immigration overhaul to give legal status to illegal immigrants overshadowed progress on other issues, Hispanic leaders said.
John Swofford, the commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference, said that college athletics needed a major overhaul and tweaking the status quo was not going to get the job done.
The memo outlined measures that the agency could take under existing laws to "reduce the threat of removal for certain individuals present in the United States without authorization," instead of waiting for Congress to pass an immigration overhaul to give legal status to millions of illegal immigrants.
That 2013 "Growth and Opportunity Project" report urged an immigration overhaul that provided legal status to some 11 million undocumented immigrants.
Primary voters have shown they will penalize politicians who support an overhaul that grants legal status to the 11 million immigrants here illegally.
President Obama has made no headway in a divided Congress toward an immigration overhaul that would give legal status to millions of illegal immigrants.
Ms. Napolitano and other administration officials have argued that a tough stance on illegal immigration is necessary to convince American voters to accept a wider overhaul that would give legal status to millions of foreigners.
In a separate meeting, the president sat down for more than an hour with immigrant advocates, labor leaders and Roman Catholic and evangelical Christian leaders who support an overhaul that would give legal status to millions of illegal immigrants.
Marchers will demand that Mr. Obama make good on his repeated promises to push forward with an overhaul, which would grant legal status to an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the country.
