Young Immigrants, in America Illegally, Line Up for Reprieve
Source: The New York Times
With their expectations soaring, young illegal immigrants across the country are preparing to apply for a temporary reprieve from deportation that the Obama administration is offering. For the first time, as many as 1.7 million of them could be allowed to work legally and live openly in this country without fear of being expelled.
The program is President Obama's most ambitious immigration initiative by far, a sweeping exercise of executive authority after Congress failed to pass the Dream Act, legislation he supported that would have given legal status to the young immigrants. It is a major bid by Mr. Obama to win back Latino voters who were souring on him after his administration deported nearly 1.2 million immigrants, most of them Latinos, in the last three years.
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The work permit young immigrants can receive with the deferral opens many doors that have been firmly shut. They can obtain valid Social Security numbers and apply for driver's licenses, professional certificates and financial aid for college.
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According to the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research organization, about 1.2 million foreign-born people are eligible to apply now, with another 500,000 children reaching the minimum eligibility age of 15 in coming years. By far the largest number -about 460,000 -live in California, with big populations in Florida, New York and Texas as well...the new program, formally called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, suspends deportations but does not confer any legal status or open any future path to citizenship.
Read more: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/us/young-immigrants-poised-for-deportation-deferral-program.xml
Expect your wingnut friends to howl on facebook about "OBAMNESTY" ignoring the very last part of my excerpt.
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... On the border... I KID YOU NOT!!!
Yes, LAND MINES.......
