What's notable about President Obama's coming executive action on immigration isn't how divisive it is — pretty much everything Obama does these days, up to and including saluting the troops while drinking tea, is divisive — but how intense the divisions are.
On the left, you have the immigration-reform community, which casually refers to Obama as the "deporter-in-chief". The president, they say, swore to pass immigration reform by the end of his first term. He failed — and, while failing, he ramped up the pace of deportations. That's not seen as simply a promise unfulfilled; it's a betrayal. The anger is real, and palpable.
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