Legislator to seek immigration relief for undocumented immigrants in California

President Obama's executive actions will only give immigration relief to 5 million undocumented immigrants, but will leave out another 6 million. Pro-immigrant activists insist they should give immigration relief to all. After congratulating President Obama for his actions, state Sen. Kevin de León is reportedly exploring ways for California to provide immigration relief to ... Read more

Reaction to President Obama's Executive Action

President Barack Obama was clear. He used his executive power to offer temporary relief to millions of undocumented immigrants due to the lack of congressional action on the issue. Since the President announced his measures in a national address on Thursday, November 20, his plan to provide temporary relief to 5 million undocumented ... Read more

Obama executive action will create deferred action for parents (DAPA) program

President Obama's executive action will create a new deferred action program for undocumented immigrants who are parents of U.S. citizens or permanent residents, giving them temporary legal status and work authorization for a period of 3 years. The program will be called Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (Deferred Action for Parental ... Read more

New DACA requirements due to Obama's executive action

President Obama's executive action will give more immigrants the opportunity to qualify for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) by expanding the parameters of the program. It also extends the period of deferred action and employment authorization to three years. The term of protection ... Read more

Positives and negatives of President Obama's executive action

Today is a bittersweet day for the immigrant community. Thanks to President Barack Obama's action, millions of people will be protected from deportation. However, many millions more still will not be able to come out of the shadows, because the U.S. Congress has not reached an agreement to pass a reform bill ... Read more

What is President Obama's executive action?

In an address to the nation today, President Obama reaffirmed his commitment to try to fix as much of the problem of undocumented immigration and the current immigration system as possible by promising to take a series of steps using his executive power. In short, President Obama will authorize the implementation of a new program ... Read more

Immigrants hope for executive action announcement

President Obama announced that this Thursday he will lay out the measures he believes are necessary to begin fixing the immigration system through the use of executive action. There is much anticipation about the presidential action that could benefit up to 5 million undocumented immigrants. While many pro-immigrant organizations are calling on the president to make his ... Read more

President Obama to announce executive action on immigration tomorrow

President Barack Obama today recorded a message announcing that tomorrow, Thursday, November 20, he will announce the steps he will take to begin fixing the immigration system. The President said he will release a list of actions he can take using his authority as President to make the system work better. He said that ... Read more

President Obama says he will act without Congress to help immigrants

President Barack Obama today announced that in the absence of action by congressional Republicans on the immigration issue, he will begin a series of initiatives to fix part of the immigration system on his own, without Congress. During a press conference at the White House, Obama noted that he had already completed a ... Read more

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