Obama's Immigration Order: A Vote for American Exceptionalism
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There are certainly some serious critiques of President Obama’s new immigration policy. It could encourage more illegal immigration in the long run. It may be another step toward an imperial presidency, detached from Congress. It definitely could have been executed less cynically, given that Mr.
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The president, the Homeland Security secretary and their secret 9-month project to remake America’s broken immigration system. Nine months ago, the new Homeland Security secretary, Jeh Johnson, received a request from the White House.
BARACK OBAMA gives a good speech: that much is clear. For your British correspondent, inured to the lazy xenophobic rhetoric of his country’s politicians, it is hard not to be uplifted by the president’s appeal to Americans to accept immigrants as equals.
President Obama is taking executive action to protect millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation. His plan has been a tough sell to the American people, especially with the new Republican-controlled Congress.
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In a prime-time address on Thursday, President Obama laid out his plan to grant work permits to millions of unauthorized immigrants, as part of a broader overhaul of immigration enforcement.
President Obama will protect about 4.3 million unauthorized immigrants, including 4 million parents of legal residents, from deportation via a new "deferred action" program. The White House believes that nearly 5 million unauthorized immigrants will be protected in total, thanks to other reforms.