Specifically, the president said he needs undocumented workers to fill a variety of federal posts which Democrat senate candidates have rejected in recent months.

Despite offers by top White House officials and even former President Bill Clinton, Mr. Obama said, politicians like Pennsylvania’s Joe Sestak and Colorado’s Andrew Romanoff refused to drop their senate aspirations in order to fill crucial government positions.

“These are the jobs that American Democrats aren’t willing to do,” the president reportedly told Gov. Brewer. “And if Democrat politicians feel this work is beneath them, where else can I turn but to America’s perennial source of cheap labor for lousy jobs?”

The president hopes to a broker a deal with the governor to continue the federal immigration agency’s ‘catch and release’ program, but to allow those released to step into top government roles “at least until a senate candidate can be persuaded to drop his bid to unseat a Democrat incumbent.”