Can President Obama re­ally stay true to his promise to push on with immigration reform?

The President made the "Yes We Can" vow last Wednes­day, after calling the Senate's failure to pass the DREAM act on Dec. 18, his "biggest disap­pointment" yet.

"My biggest disappointment was this DREAM Act vote. I want to do right by those kids," Obama told a year-end press conference.

He called it "heartbreaking" that some of these children, brought illegally into the coun­try by their parents through no fault of their own, live under a "shadow of fear."

"I'm very disappointed Con­gress wasn't able to pass the DREAM Act so we can stop punishing kids for the actions of their parents and allow them to serve in the military or earn an education and contrib­ute their talents to the country where they grew up," the Presi­dent said.

Really? Well, for me, the 41 "No" votes were nothing short of the 41 bullets Amadou Diallo took. And while the Presi­dent has the clout to use his executive powers, he has not. Instead he allowed this act to bite the dust in the two years that he and the Democrats controlled the Congress.

Dead is a bill that would have offered a path to citizen­ship to young undocumented immigrants who attend col­lege or join the military, young people with hopes and dreams whose holidays have been dashed by heartless lawmak­ers who lack the very Chris­tian and Christmas principles so many tout – compassion and love.

The measure fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance through to the Senate on Saturday.

The President, who has promised to push for immi­gration reform since taking office but has failed to deliver to date, insisted yesterday he was "persistent" and "deter­mined" to secure passage of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act in the new Congress.

This even though it will be controlled by Republicans who see anything immigra­tion-related as amnesty for "illegals."

Well, good luck, President Obama. You certainly will need it and I am glad you are much more optimistic than I am. Maybe you can cut one of those so-called bipartisan deals with the Republicans and make this a reality yet, or maybe the time has come to shake out all the "illegals" hid­ing in the closets of the GOPers and Tea Partyites and play politics with them.

Either way, immigration reform in the United States is looking bleaker by the minute, and President Obama's vow last Wednesday simply rang as hol­low as his campaign promises made two years ago. Sounds great, but seeing is believing!