Joy Reid Falsely Claims Republicans Stopped Obama and the Dems From Doing Comprehensive Immigration Reform During His First Year in Office

During special coverage of President Trump's immigration speech on MSNBC, anchor Joy Reid interviewed former Republican Congressman Carlos Curbelo.  The discussion focused on President Trump's immigration speech, with the two arguing about whether both sides or just Republicans deserve blame for the stalemate that led to a government shutdown.  In the course of the conversation, Reid falsely claimed that Republicans blocked President Obama from passing immigration reform during his first year in office. Curbelo reminded Reid that "President Obama promised the Hispanic community" that he would work on immigration reform during his first year in office.  Reid claimed "Republicans refused to allow any bills to go through.  You know who is running the Senate."  Curbelo reminded Reid that "Democrats had 60 votes but the President promised that there would be immigration reform and nothing was delivered." Reid apparently didn't hear him and continued to talk over him: "I see we're doing politics but you know full well that Mitch McConnell would not allow..." Reid either forgot or chose to ignore that Harry Reid controlled the Senate from 2007 through 2014, not Mitch McConnell.  From July 2009 to February 2010, Democrats had a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority in the Senate and a majority in the House.  In other words, Republicans would have had no power to stop an immigration reform.