Obama’s changes give relief to more illegal immigrants.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: President Barack Obama’s changes to the nation’s immigration system could offer protection from deportation to 87 percent of the approximately 11 million immigrants here illegally, up from 73 percent under previous guidelines, according to a findings released Thursday.
The report by the Migration Policy Institute, an immigration think tank based out of Washington D.C., analyzed the new guidelines prioritizing which immigrants Homeland Security officials should seek to deport.
The research found that about 13 percent of U.S.-based immigrants without papers, or about 1.4 million people, have criminal records or recently crossed the border illegally, making them priorities for deportation under guidelines the administration announced in November and put into effect July 1, reported the New York Times.
The new program is likely to catalyze a drop in overarching deportations from the U.S. by as much as 25,000 a year, but an increase in deportations of immigrants who were convicted of serious crimes, pose national security threats, or were caught crossing the border illegally.
“While much of the attention to the president’s executive action announcement has focused on the deferred action programs, which MPI has estimated could grant relief from deportation to as many as 5.2 million unauthorized immigrants, implementation of the new enforcement priorities is likely to affect about 9.6 million people,” Marc Rosenblum, deputy director of MPI’s U.S. immigration policy program, said in a statement.
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The Presidents Executive order will cease in 18 months and will be tied up in court to the end of his term, as it should be. No executive should be able to make such a sweeping change to the laws by itself.
The new president will have to deal with it. The only thing that would work is E-Verify mandatory, Entry-Exit with large fines first, otherwise it will be 1986 all over again.
America strength use to its middle class, it is shrinking fast, the presidents action will kill it for good.
Well, you better learn Spanish and get your checkbook out, because these people don’t need to learn English as there will be no requirements for permanent status, financially, socially or otherwise. That’s my only beef with this is that I will have to pay the taxes to support them. California is already 50% latino, 48% poor and has 33% of the nations welfare recipients. Where will the money come from to add to that?