NumbersUSA, an organization committed to legal immigration said, “If the President really believed that putting Americans back to work was an emergency that called for tough measures, he would have announced a suspension of most new immigration of foreign workers and mandated E-Verify verification to keep illegal aliens from U.S. jobs.”

It sounds like the American voters have persuaded the White House that "comprehensive immigration reform" is far more controversial than the other items the President mentioned directly in his yearly address, according to Roy Beck of NumbersUSA.

“And for that, we can thank the millions of Americans who have contacted the White House in the last year to express their opposition to ‘comprehensive immigration reform,’" Beck finished.