2. Comprehensive immigration reform entails a "path to citizenship."

3. Now, the Department of Homeland Security is to receive funds for the above-described program through 2013, a program that would be unnecessary if immigration was reformed and undocumented people were made citizens, through whatever process, before 2013.

You completely misread what I wrote, which, after rereading what I wrote makes sense, as what I wrote wasn't written as clearly as perhaps it should have been. My argument is simply that this plan implies that:
a) Obama is balking on comprehensive immigration reform, and
b) He will likely continue to do so through his first term.

Politico's Ben Smith wrote an article yesterday discussing, among other things, how this could be useful to the Republican party.

The hope is that torture can no longer hide. And in some sense, it isn't now, as it did when my father was tortured under Pinochet. Back then, Pinochet could censor, imprison, deport, or murder journalists, and then deny deny deny...and there were no bloggers yet.

My father told me the other night, "If only we'd had the Internet back then!" Indeed, if only...