The call came in the morning to the lawyer representing Manuel Guerra, an illegal immigrant from Mexico living in Florida who had been caught in a tortuous and seemingly failing five-year court fight against deportation.
With the news early Thursday that federal immigration authorities had canceled his deportation, Mr. Guerra became one of the first illegal immigrants in the country to see results from a policy the Obama administration unveiled in Washington that day. It could lead to the suspension in coming months of deportation proceedings against tens of thousands of immigrants.
Administration officials and immigrant advocates said Monday that the plan offered the first real possibility since President Obama took office — promising immigrants and Latinos he would overhaul the law to bring illegal immigrants into the system — for large numbers of those immigrants to be spared from detention and deportation.
It’s as simple as that. The GOP must be fuming. How do you get around something as simple as that?
Officials will look to halt deportations of longtime residents with clean police records who came here illegally when they were children, or are close family of military service members, or are parents or spouses of American citizens.
So simple.
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You can make the case this is a moral decision (or not) but if anything it will hurt his reelection chances.
This is great news, but it’s fairly inconsequential to getting Obama re-elected. Hispanics voting R set sail as soon as the Tea Party took over, so it’s not like he’s picking up many new votes, unless you assume they were going to stay home save some kind of reform, which I suppose might be the case. Immigration reform, at least making it more compassionate, doesn’t really rate with Independent voters. And even though the Rs are already pretty rabid about ousting Obama, this just gives more fuel to their burning desire of ousting the president.
While it’s the overwhelmingly right thing to do, politically, this is a push at best for Obama.
Politicians doing things because they’re the right thing to do ought to be the measure we vote by.
Well, that’s politics for you. What is ‘right’ is often very subjective.
anchor babies took our jobs!
What CC said because yeah…spelling please.
It will be inconsequential. Regardless of what particular laws are followed, only 2/3 rds of Actual American citizens voted so adding a few more won’t matter(if it happens). Neither should you assume what their political leanings will be
I don’t want him re-elected, too much damage already. Not that there is much else out there, which may be his only hope