Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Immigration Activists rally across Country to Stop Deportations

Immigration activists demonstrated in cities across the U.S. on Saturday, placing the blame for record deportations of illegal immigrants on President Barack Obama and calling on him to stop them. 
The demonstrations, called "Two Million Too Many," coincide with the date when the Obama administration is believed to have surpassed two million deportations, a figure that is higher than that reached by any previous administration.
Pressure on the president also comes as it seems unlikely that congress will pass an immigration overhaul this year. The U.S. is home to nearly 12 million undocumented immigrants, according to the nonpartisan Pew Research Center, and Congress hasn't passed a legalization program since Ronald Reagan was president in 1986.
"There is another branch of government—the executive—that has wide authority to do more in the absence of immigration reform," said Lorella Praeli, a leader of United We Dream, a national group of young immigrants. "We are shifting from a legislative to an administrative campaign." 
Immigrant advocates say undocumented families who would likely benefit from an overhaul of the nation's immigration system can't wait endlessly for relief. They are urging President Obama to use his executive authority to stop what they characterize as suffering inflicted by deportations that separate families.
For example, they say Mr. Obama can expand the deferred action program, known as DACA, which he approved in 2012, to temporarily grant deportation relief and a work permit to many youth who are in the U.S. illegally. The program doesn't address the immigration status of the estimated 1.8 million people who are eligible.
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