Young illegal immigrants blocking freeway ramps in L.A. this morning and cheering Obama.
Posted on 06/15/2012 6:48:15 AM PDT by Tarantulas
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives. The election-year initiative addresses a top priority of an influential Latino electorate that has been vocal in its opposition to administration deportation policies.
The policy change, described to The Associated Press by two senior administration officials, will affect as many as 800,000 immigrants who have lived in fear of deportation. It also bypasses Congress and partially achieves the goals of the so-called DREAM Act, a long-sought but never enacted plan to establish a path toward citizenship for young people who came to the United States illegally but who have attended college or served in the military.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was to announce the new policy Friday, one week before President Barack Obama plans to address the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials' annual conference in Orlando, Fla. Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney is scheduled to speak to the group on Thursday.
Under the administration plan, illegal immigrants will be immune from deportation if they were brought to the United States before they turned 16 and are younger than 30, have been in the country for at least five continuous years, have no criminal history, graduated from a U.S. high school or earned a GED, or served in the military. They also can apply for a work permit that will be good for two years with no limits on how many times it can be renewed. The officials who described the plan spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss it in advance of the official announcement.
(Excerpt) Read more at google.com ...
Comrade GREAT CHAIRMAN Obamakov don’ need no stinkin’ CONSTITUTION, or no stinkin’ CONGRESS!
He is MESSIAH, and is above mere mortal things like LAWS.
The Costitution is just an old, outdated, god-damned piece of paper written by old, racist White Guys, for CHUMPS, anyway!!
Just ask ANYONE at CBS/NBC/ABC/CNN/MSNBC/E!/NPR/Pacifica/WashPost/NYTimes/TheView about this!!!
exactly
By getting blacks and whites to vote GOP. Blacks are going to become less and less important for the Dems now that Hispanics are the larger minority. More mexicans mens less jobs for everyone else. That is how it can be framed, or at least that is how people will see it without any need to explain it.
: )
Yes, it is a pitiful place we have come to when a blowhard, pompous, selfish, windbag like Limbaugh is considered a credible hope that some cling to.
He is often right, sometimes passionate but not a man of action, just talk.
We need a man of action, leadership and high principles with a love for the Constitution and the United States. We have none of that now.
California committed suicide.
It was obviously supposed to be a Friday night news dump, but two people jumped the gun.
Starting a group of replies. I’ve already called and screamed at my congress creep’s staffer for all the good that will do. You have to hold a mirror to Brady’s face to see if the SOB is even breathing.
Yes, distract, distract, distract. Change the subject. Shape shift.
This country is screwed. We have no direction or resolve. We never will make progress when we take one step forward, two steps back, change direction, do and undo. It is like trying to cross a river and each time you get half-way turn back for another means of crossing. Nothing is steady or fixed or reliable.
Probably a good point, will it matter? Probably not the way things look.
Limbaugh is reading the tea leaves now and returning to the issue instead of blathering on about Parker’s apartment.
Yes, good point, hit the switchboard hard and repeatedly. Congress must respond to this and just stop it. It is breaking what I though was the LAW.
ping for later
I have no sympathy for those brought here illegally. Either you have laws or you don’t.
If this is allowed to stand, we don’t have laws. We don’t even have a country.
So many just live paycheck to paycheck.
Where’s Romney? Aren’t we always being told how great he is with rapid responses?
Yes, I am glad to see my Dad and Uncles who fought for the nation are gone. This would kill them.
Doing nothing has a 100% chance of failure doesn’t it?
At some point right is right no matter how many are against it and wrong is wrong no matter how many are for it.
Yes, he wants to create a good and a bad and an enemy of the “poor” and “under privileged”. This is precisely why Congress must act and why we were supposed to have laws.
This should never be a campaign issue this way.
Chaos, create chaos. That is what this is about. Change the issues from substantive and measurable where he is losing to something subjective.
I don’t see any match for a big truck or two.
It must come to this.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.