Sunday, August 31, 2014

Five Things Obama May Do To Change The Immigration System ... ON HIS OWN

... Critics say Obama has crossed a constitutional line and will break the law if he protects more undocumented immigrants from deportation. On Twitter, they compare him to Roman emperors.
"This is opening up a constitutional can of worms that threatens to fundamentally challenge our system of governance to one of elected monarchs every four years who write their own laws," said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies. If Obama protects millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation, "it would represent the greatest power grab by a president in peacetime."
Here is a look at five changes proponents and critics of the White House say could be on the way:
1. DEPORTATION REPRIEVES
In 2012, Obama created a program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, which allowed undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children to apply to the federal government to be removed from consideration for deportation for two years. More than 550,000 people have been approved, and many of those are in the process of applying for two-year extensions.
The president may expand that pool considerably. Possible beneficiaries include parents, siblings and spouses of DACA recipients, parents of U.S.-born children and undocumented immigrants who have lived in the USA for long periods of time. Immigration advocates have estimated up to 5 million undocumented immigrants could benefit.
A group of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents sued the president over DACA, arguing it violated his congressional mandate to carry out immigration enforcement laws.
Immigration advocates say the president is well within his constitutional authority to decide which of the nation's undocumented immigrants should be targeted for deportation given the government's limited funding.
The president could grant "temporary protected status" to people from countries ravaged by war, violence or disasters. Or he could use various forms of "parole" granted to undocumented immigrants such as those with immediate relatives in the U.S. military.
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