Confirmed: White House Says Immigration Reform Unlikely in ’09

From Roll Call:

The White House on Monday acknowledged that immigration reform is unlikely to move in Congress this year.

“I can see the president’s desire for it to happen but understanding that currently where we sit the math makes that real difficult,” said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.

Obama will meet with a bipartisan group of lawmakers Thursday to discuss the issue at the White House.

Gibbs added that Obama hopes that “later this year that we can have the beginning of formal debate on that.”

Obama has consistently put other priorities — including energy and health care reform — ahead of an immigration bill, hoping to have both approved in 2009.

Since 2010 is the mid-term election year it's highly unlikely the Democrats would bring Comprehensive Immigration Reform to the table. So we're looking at 2011 at the earliest.

Now that the gAyTM is no longer spitting out money for the Dems, let's hope they wise up and not wait on repealing Section 3 of DOMA. 2011 is simply not acceptable.