The administration of Barack Obama suggested that the president's trip to El Paso would be a breakthrough in the battle to repair the dysfunctional immigration system. In fact, it all ended up with rhetoric and gestures, which in no way have changed the future of close to 11 million undocumented immigrants and their families.

 President Obama assures that paving the path to permanent residency for those who have no papers is close to his heart. By saying that he wants to make sure the White House has the support of the Latino community, which is growing in power and increasing its share of his electorate.

With the time running out before the next elections, the American leader has demonstrated that he intends to run for reelection. El Paso, a city on the Mexican border, was therefore not a coincidental choice.

While speaking in El Paso, Obama was trying to yet again blame Republicans for the failure of the immigration reform, hoping it would profit his political game. However, this time he may have miscalculated.

Obama argued that his administration has fulfilled more than all requirements regarding the tightening of boarders, made by his adversaries from the GOP party. He joked that if previously the GOP politicians demanded tripling the border patrol, now they will want four times as many officers on the borders. They will call for higher border walls or even a moat. When they get it, they will want to put alligators in it. Obama called it a regular political game.

The president's joke was pretty good, however, it is not enough to dissolve doubt that is piling in minds of millions immigrants who are wondering what the true intentions of President Obama are. The declarations made by the, then, senator from Illinois, who solemnly swore to make the immigration reform one of his main priorities, still resonate among them.

What those immigration promises have transformed into now is basically a tighter whip on illegal immigrants and aggressive deportations that break record numbers. Seven hundred and thirty eight thousand people have been deported since the beginning of Mr. Obama's term, with half of them having a clean criminal record. A controversial program called Secure Communities, which has been expanded during Obama's term, is also generating criticism. The program mandates that local police sends fingerprints of all apprehended individuals to the federal database, which - in most cases - guarantees a straight path to deportation.

No concrete action accompanies the currently spoken president's words regarding inhumane separation of families, the grey zone, where cheap labor is used, or ousting from the U.S. educated and gifted people, who will consequently build the economies of America's rivals.

President Obama did not push for the reform with enough force, when he had the democratic majority in both chambers on the Hill. If one is to believe the Republican leader of the House, John Boehner, Obama has not introduced any immigration initiatives in the Congress either.

Two thirds of the votes President Obama received in 2008 were from the Latino communities. Next year this may not happen again.