Activists Warn of Possible Dangers of Deferred Action in Video

Hispanically speaking news ^ | Aug. 15, 2012 | Hispanically Speaking News

[AuntB]

A group of pro-immigrant activists in Chicago on Tuesday released an informational video warning about the possible dangers of deferred action, which on Wednesday will begin to register undocumented young people who want to try and postpone deportation.

The video, “Defer the Bulls—t,” may be seen online at www.moratoriumondeportations.org and is an effort to resist the government’s alleged disinformation campaign about the program.

“While some youth may have a chance at relief, Deferred Action is at best insufficient, and at worst misleading, dangerous and deliberately deceptive,” said Jose Herrera of the Moratorium on Deportations Campaign on Tuesday.

Some 20 members of various groups gathered in front of Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters in Chicago to denounce the president for “using immigrants as guinea pigs for his own political gains.”

The activists also criticized Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, who on Wednesday in Chicago will hold a huge registration drive for youths hoping to take advantage of deferred action to postpone deportation.

Herrera said that in the promotional activities for the event the possible - that is, non-guaranteed - postponement of deportations in accord with deferred action is erroneously linked with the DREAM Act, which remains stalled in Congress.

The deferred action policy “is not a law, it does not have the protection of a law,” he said.

According to the activists, the documents released by the Department of Homeland Security clearly state that even young people who fulfill the requirements for deferred action can be rejected and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation, at the discretion of the government.

ICIRR said that at its event on Wednesday, which will be attended by Gutierrez, Sen. Richard Durbin and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, undocumented youths will be encouraged to request deferred action but also to seek legal assistance regarding their own particular immigration situation.

Meanwhile, Gutierrez’s press spokesman, Douglas Rivlin, said that the congressman wants young people to attend the event to sign up for deferred action and to consult experts about it.

The deferred action program is open to undocumented immigrants 30 years old and younger who were brought to the United States before the age of 16.

Applicants will need five years of continuous residence in the country, a high school diploma or GED, and proof of current or previous military service or college enrollment.

Those seeking deferred action will also have to submit fingerprints and other biometric data and undergo an extensive background check, as well as pay a fee of $465.

[AuntB]

“It’s up to the Federal government to enforce RealID.”

ROFLMBO!

[Norseman]

>>I am saying that an anti-Obama independent group do this, The Republicans doing this could backfire on them.<<

That’s a reasonable suggestion, although the group doing so would likely be tagged as a aligned with the GOP anyway.

>>Romney was the most anti-amnesty candidate in the primary, Him flipping that big now would keep many Republicans home on election day.<<

I agree that this would be very risky, for the reason you state. And it’s probably not necessary pre-election. However, I do think the way to make inroads on the Hispanic vote is to find a reasonable compromise on how to deal with the long-term illegals, especially those brought here while very young, and to combine that compromise with the passing of a law that strictly enforces our national borders.

Obama failed to do that, as did Bush and everyone before him for that matter, but demographics argue that the GOP has to eventually make inroads into the Hispanic vote, or risk obsolescence as a party. A principled approach to a compromise might be a decent start.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” I am saying that an anti-Obama independent group do this, The Republicans doing this could backfire on them.”

Agreed.

[dalebert]

yes and then let them vote with that ID

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks sickoflibs.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”I agree that this would be very risky, for the reason you state. And it’s probably not necessary pre-election. RE However, I do think the way to make inroads on the Hispanic vote is to find a reasonable compromise on how to deal with the long-term illegals, especially those brought here while very young, and to combine that compromise with the passing of a law that strictly enforces our national borders.
Obama failed to do that, as did Bush and everyone before him for that matter, but demographics argue that the GOP has to eventually make inroads into the Hispanic vote, or risk obsolescence as a party. A principled approach to a compromise might be a decent start.”

Those brought here illegally when young pose a serious challenge I agree with you 100%. On one hand it is almost impossible to convince people that it is their fault that they are here. But on the other hand allowing them to legally get taxpayer benefits and voting is a recipe for disaster.

Amnesty to the extent that it brings some voters to the GOP will be very short lived because those coming here illegally even as children are setup to vote for government benefits and regulations over tax cuts, and Democrats will always outbid Republicans on handouts.

Look at GWB policies. Sure he raised the Hispanic vote by maybe 20% but longer term those policies were a disaster and those Hispanics went overwhelmingly Democrat in 2006 and 2008.

Specifically I mean the Bush affordable housing programs that got Hispanics with bad credit Home loans but in the end they lost those homes and turned areas of FL, NV, AZ, NM into economic toxic areas.

How about Republicans propose a Federal law that makes it a Felony to bring a minor into this country illegally? That way the adult ilegals become the bad guy, not us. That is what GWB should have been doing instead of destroying his party with amnesty votes and affordable housing loans.

[SaraJohnson]

I don’t think the dummies have thought of the fact they are all registering their illegal status (and criminal histories) in the US under Obammy’s illegal scam.

Well, at least we will know who they are and where to find them if ever the rule of law returns to the Nation.

[DoughtyOne]

Several Republican reps in the California state house were saying they couldn’t remember a department head like the head of the DMV announcing state policy like this before.

Brown was in cricket mode, and all of a sudden you’ve go the DMV announcing a new policy.

The place stinks worse every damn day.

[Gilbo_3]

or require assimilation??? ooops that would require a history lesson taught in English...

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Just in time to sign them up as Democrat voters.

[Norseman]

Regarding those illegals who were brought here when very young, you agree that “it is almost impossible to convince people that it is their fault that they are here.” And there’s an excellent reason that it’s impossible; it simply wasn’t their fault.

Yet, at the end you propose a solution: “...a Federal law that makes it a Felony to bring a minor into this country illegally?”

While your solution might help with today’s border control, it doesn’t address the illegals who were brought here as children and have grown up here.

The GOP needs to do what Obama has tried, but failed, to do. Come up with a reasonable answer to this issue, but unlike Obama, we should put it into law and make it clear that we are doing so to protect that group from a subsequent change in policy by another President. Obama’s move just protects them temporarily, while getting their names on the federal books in the process.

Illegals signing up for his program should feel about it very much the same as we feel about a gun registry. It can come back to bite you in the butt someday.

If you’re sincere about your position that it’s impossible to assign them fault (politically impossible, not logically impossible) then the next step is to put a rational response together. The GOP needs to do that, and then contrast that response with Obama’s risky ad hoc solution.

My point remains. This move could backfire on Obama if the GOP handles it right.

[sickoflibs]

RE :” Regarding those illegals who were brought here when very young, you agree that “it is almost impossible to convince people that it is their fault that they are here.” And there’s an excellent reason that it’s impossible; it simply wasn’t their fault.
Yet, at the end you propose a solution: “...a Federal law that makes it a Felony to bring a minor into this country illegally?”
While your solution might help with today’s border control, it doesn’t address the illegals who were brought here as children and have grown up here.rdquo;

It is one thing to not assign them personal guilt, it is another thing to demand ‘compassionate’ (sound familiar??) federal laws that are self destruction to this nation.

Do we continue to overwhelm this nation in debt by adding millions of illegals to the generous free stuff rolls?

Do we continue to turn this nation into a Democratic welfare ‘ Mommy runs our lives’ state by adding millions of illegals to the voting rolls to vote for ‘free stuff’?

How about high unemployment and adding new competition for jobs?

These are serious questions that the amnesty crowd never addressed and will not address. How about organizing your thoughts and writing a vanity under blogs on the subject that addresses these? seriously. I do that from time to time.

RE :”While your solution might help with today’s border control, it doesn’t address the illegals who were brought here as children and have grown up here.”

It does show how the amnesty wing of the Republican party was clueless and played right into Democrats hands.

[Mom MD]

Good. The more ways we can get them to self identify the easier it is to send em home. If they are that bright and promising, let them go home and clean up their own sewer. I have treated plenty of illegals in my hospital. They know they will never get a bill, but rather than being grateful they are some of the most entitled demanding folks you could meet. On family had over a million dollars of free care, yet had daily scheduled meetings with administration to go over their complaints. Never heard so much as a thank you though I personally gave tens of thousands of dollars of free care.....