Dan Coats: We should delay immigration reform after Boston

“You usually end up with bad policy if you do it in an emotional way or an emotional reaction,” said Coats on ABC’s “This Week.” “We saw some things post-9/11 that were enacted that if we had had a little bit more rational time to think this through, perhaps we wouldn’t have had some of the pushback on it.

“We have a broken system, it needs to be reformed. But I’m afraid we’ll rush to some judgments relative to immigration and how it’s processed. So let’s do it in a rational way rather than an emotional way,” he added…

“I think stepping back just a little bit and putting it on hold, for instance, we have a bigger issue than immigration in front of us. And that’s our debt deficit and it’s got to get solved,” he said.