Obama Plans to Protect Up to 5 Million From Deportation, Aides Say

[Mira]

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/us/obama-immigra

BREAKING NEWS Thursday, November 13, 2014 12:17 PM EST
Obama Plans to Protect Up to 5 Million From Deportation, Aides Say
President Obama will ignore angry protests from Republicans and announce as soon as next week a broad overhaul of the nation’s immigration enforcement system that will protect up to five million undocumented immigrants from the threat of deportation and provide many of them with work permits, according to administration officials who have direct knowledge of the plan.
Asserting his authority as president to enforce the nation’s laws with discretion, Mr. Obama intends to order changes that will significantly refocus the activities of the government’s 12,000 immigration agents. One key piece of the order, officials said, will allow many parents of children who are American citizens or legal residents to obtain legal work documents and no longer worry about being discovered, separated from their families and sent away.
That part of Mr. Obama’s plan alone could affect as many as 3.3 million people who have been living in the United States illegally for at least five years, according to an analysis by the Migration Policy Institute, an immigration research organization in Washington. But the White House is also considering a stricter policy that would limit the benefits to people who have lived in the country for at least 10 years, or about 2.5 million people.


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[Cali_Democrat]

1. Most Congressional Dems have moved to the right and Obama realizes this

For the next two years, it's all up to Obama.

[Skeowes28]

2. About time

I know Obama he is one of the most vacillating politicians we have it will happen tues day or weddin on dec 23rd

[n2doc]

3. But but the savage wiener said it was 30 million! n/t

[candelista]

4. I hope that someday the Mexican economy will improve...

...to the point where people can find work there instead of having to come to the US. That would be better for everyone, especially the lowest paid US workers.

[Spider Jerusalem]

14. It's the USA's fault people can't find work in Mexico

NAFTA led to heavily subsidised US corn exports to Mexico that undercut Mexican farmers, quite a lot of whom have been forced into bankruptcy. US trade policy has been very bad for the Mexican economy in quite a lot of ways. I don't really blame them so much for seeking work in the States.

[candelista]

16. That may be part of the problem.

NAFTA is not good for the working classes of Mexico or the US. But this is not a justification for permitting unlimited immigration.

[ballyhoo]

5. That will put a Republican in the White House

in 2016--and I don't mean Hillary Clinton, who may be a Republican Lite now but is still not a real Republican. Also, with this action, I also believe Obama will sign off on the Keystone Pipeline, TPP AND cuts to Social Security via extension of the age to collect and/or an adjustment to the amount of increases. Once this happens, the next congress will begin the process of ending entitlements in earnest.

[Iliyah]

6. GOPers head are gonna explode!

IMPEACHMENT! I see a win win for Dems!

[7962]

8. Thats exactly what would happen. Its a loser for the GOP

Although I dont cheer continued executive orders by Obama, either. What happens when a republican is president one day? It WILL happen at some point. Then what, we'll all be screaming about how he's pushing stuff without congress, he's a dictator, etc. Just like we all did with Bush. So i dont see it OK just because MY side's doing it.

[Art_from_Ark]

11. bu$h always had the taint of illegitimacy

He received fewer popular votes than his opponent and entered the White House through the back door, courtesy of a Supreme Court ruling that could best be described as "bizarre". And as soon as he got into the White, he certainly started acting like a dictator. It was all documented here on DU in its early days. Unfortunately, that documentation was apparently lost forever during one of DU's upgrades.

[Doctor_J]

7. Boy, I wish he'd done this before the election

How many seats did we hold onto because he put this off? Somewhere around...zero? The DC Dems need to wake up to the fact that the way to win elections is to rally the potential (D) voters instead of trying to salvage hopeless races by pandering to the right.

[newblewtoo]

9. I wonder what this means:

Mr. Obama intends to order changes that will significantly refocus the activities of the government’s 12,000 immigration agents.

I was refocused right out of a job during one 'realignment' and only bumping rights kept me from being out on a windy. Didn't help the person I bumped much either. Working for the Fed has its good and bad points, it's not all cupcakes and ice cream like some would have you believe.

[newthinking]

10. I would really like to see attention brought to the seperated families of documented citizens also

(currently almost 2 years separated for citizens with spouses and minor children, such as returning from working abroad).

In other words spouses and minor children of citizens are being separated by the system longer than at any time in recent history.

There would be absolutely *no* political pushback to fixing this particular issue, but amazingly nobody seems to care (this group does not have a lobby)?

[Vattel]

12. This could be the best thing Obama has ever done.

Please don't change your mind President Obama! Families should be together!

[arcane1]

15. Maybe because it's the right thing to do, regardless of how they vote?

He's president of the entire country, not just of the people who voted for him.