Friday, January 17, 2014

Illegal Immigration: Obama to use executive order

'I've got my pen, and I plan to use it..'

From Homeland Security NewsWire:

Obama uses executive power to changes immigration policy17 January 2014

President will act without legislation if need be // Source: baomoi.com

 President Barack Obama is using executive power to tackle the country’s immigration issues while Congress makes little progress on immigration overhaul. The president issued executive orders prohibiting deportations of individuals who arrived in the United States illegally as children, individuals who care for children, and individuals who have no criminal records. Recently, some relatives of military service members living in the country illegally have been allowed to remain in the country as a way to lessen stress on the military and reward veterans.

President Barack Obama is using executive power to tackle the country’s immigration issues while Congress makes little progress on immigration overhaul. The president issued executive orders prohibiting deportations of individuals who arrived in the United States illegally as children, individuals who care for children, and individuals who have no criminal records. Recently, some relatives of military service members living in the country illegally have been allowed to remain in the country as a way to lessen stress on the military and reward veterans.

The Miami Herald reports that immigration overhaul in Congress is at a standstill, and as a result, Obama is gradually altering immigration policy on his own.

“What this administration has undertaken has never happened to this degree,” said Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank advocating a more restrictive immigration policy....


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