According to a recent report in The Hill, a few Democratic lawmakers are confident we have a president willing to use executive authority to further loosen the waiver of inadmissibility process, even while Congress gingerly inches forward on a framework for comprehensive immigration reform.  “Four million of the undocumented are people who overstayed their visas to stay with family.  So that would be, I think, an area in which there’s a great deal of executive authority that he could deal with” said Rep. Raul Grijava (D-Ariz.), who heads the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

This is wishful thinking, a rogue cannonball across the channel to the fortress on the right from the fortress on the left.  But the statement does telegraph current high-level discussion of potential administrative action loosening the stateside waiver process, if Congress gets bogged down in stonewalling and acrimony and the president becomes so inclined.