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FAIR #39;s Susan Tully: If Not For Gov. Perry No One Would Be Protecting Border
USofArn.com Federation for American Immigration Reform #39;s Susan Tully at 16th CD town hall meeting talking about immigration crisis. Illinois #39; 16th CD is represented by congressman Adam Kinzinger,...

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2014 has been a dud of a year for immigration reform so far, with legislation for comprehensive reform and funding measures for migrant children at the border both at a standstill. But as early as next week, President Obama is expected to announce a series of executive orders on immigration reform that have been widely anticipated since he vowed earlier this summer to act on his own if Congress didn't -- and it hasn't.

Legal and political analysts have filled airwaves and news columns discussing whether the president has the constitutional authority to enact sweeping changes to immigration policies. But Obama has proceeded carefully, sitting down to more than 20 meetings with business leaders and immigration advocates and readying legal rationales for his decisions.

The president has a wealth of actions to choose from on immigration, but here are five of the most talked-about measures he could announce after Labor Day:

Expand deportation relief: Obamas most closely watched option would potentially expand the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which temporarily halts deportations for some undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children and allows them to get work permits, to apply to undocumented parents and other family members of DACA-eligible immigrants. An even bolder move would be to expand DACA to the undocumented parents of U.S. citizens, which analysts say could affect up to 5 million people nearly half the countrys undocumented population.

Expanding DACA in any way would likely be Obamas most politically charged executive order, as DACA itself is already hugely unpopular with Republican lawmakers. Shortly before leaving for summer recess, House Republicans quickly passed a bill to suspend the program, saying it was fueling the ongoing influx of unaccompanied child migrants at the southwest U.S. border.

But immigrants rights advocates have long pushed for Obama to expand relief, saying that current deportation practices have swept up low-priority undocumented immigrants who have strong family and community ties in the United States.

Grant humanitarian parole: Another way Obama could grant deportation relief is through parole for certain classes of immigrants. Humanitarian parole would allow certain immigrants to enter the U.S. in cases of humanitarian emergencies which could possibly apply to the ongoing influx of unaccompanied children from Central America.

Obama can also issue a parole-in-place order for undocumented immigrants already in the U.S. Late last year, the federal government extended this policy to undocumented family members of active-duty military troops and veterans, giving them a reprieve from deportation and a pathway to legal residency.

Redefine the count for green cards: One of the most popular proposals among business leaders and immigration advocates involves changing the way the federal government counts the number of family- and employment-based green cards under the existing annual cap of 366,000. Under the current system, dependents of green card holders may apply for green cards of their own, but both residency permits count toward the quota. Obama is considering a rule change that would count only the primary green-card holder in the yearly cap.

Immigration advocates say such a move could effectively more than double the existing 336,000 green cards allotted each year and sharply reduce long wait times that green card applicants face.

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Immigration Reform 2014: Obamas Options For Executive Action

The White House has signaled that President Obamas pledge to reform the nations immigration system could happen later than the end of the summer, a deadline it set earlier this year.

Obama has pledged to circumvent Congress and unilaterally overhaul immigration, and has said previously that he would do so by the end of the summer. But he and other White House officials began suggesting in recent days that any action may happen later than planned.

During a news conference Thursday, Obama suggested that a flood of Central American children at the southwestern border, which peaked in the spring and is now abating, has had an impact on the potential timing of his decision.

Some of these things do affect timelines, and were just going to be working through as systematically as possible in order to get this done, he said.

A White House official said the timing of any potential action on immigration could influence migrations to the border.

When asked about a timeline Friday, White House press secretary Josh Earnest did not mention the end-of-summer deadline, which officials have been touting for weeks. But he also declined to say whether Obama would delay decisions on immigration until later this fall or after the November midterms.

Thats putting the cart before the horse, Earnest said.

Earnest said Obama has not yet received final recommendations from Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on how to address the immigration issue. The White House had previously said that those recommendations were to be given to Obama by the end of summer.

So those who are speculating about how those recommendations might be implemented are a little ahead of themselves, Earnest said.

Obama said Thursday that the flow of unaccompanied minors and other issues have kept us busy, but it has not stopped the process of looking more broadly about how do we get a smarter immigration system in place while were waiting for Congress to act.

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White House suggests delay on immigration reform

White House staffers have spent August deliberating about what should go into the executive order the president is expected to issue after Labor Day: his do-it-yourself, go-it-alone version of immigration reform. The smart money is betting that the president will grant some sort of temporary legal status to as many as 4 million unauthorized immigrants.

This would be a huge relief for those who qualify and their families. There wont be a path to citizenship only Congress can provide that. But together with the presidents 2012 memo granting legal status to young people brought to the U.S. illegally as children, it could allow more than a third of the nations unauthorized immigrants to remain in the country and work legally without fear of being deported.

Immigrant rights advocates will be thrilled. Though they would like the number to be bigger, this is the fix theyve been fighting for, in some cases for more than a decade. But is it really a solution? The answer, sadly, is no.

An executive order mandating legalization alone wont address whats wrong with the immigration system. The danger is that once President Barack Obama acts, that may be the end of what Washington does to address the issue this year or for many years to come.

One-time legalization would do nothing to tackle the underlying cause: the dynamic that draws immigrants to come to the U.S. illegally in the first place supply and demand. Most people come to work, drawn by our need to fill jobs for which there are no willing and able Americans.

Some of these jobs require highly skilled employees Ph.D. scientists or IT technicians. But the overwhelming majority are for low-skilled workers: physically demanding, often outdoor work that holds little appeal, at any economically plausible wage, for increasingly educated American workers.

The problem is that under current law there is virtually no legal way for less-skilled foreigners to enter the country to work in year-round jobs. Because they cant get in the front door, they come through the back door illegally.

Obama is not the first policymaker to have trouble grasping this reality. Washington made exactly the same mistake once before, with the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act.

In the 1980s, as over the past decade, many reformers argued that any overhaul should include three core components: tougher enforcement of immigration law, some kind of legalization or regularization for immigrants living in the country illegally and changes to the legal immigration system including more worker visas to prevent future illegal immigration.

Immigrant rights advocates called for regularization in those days, it was officially called amnesty and they had the political power to back their demands. Then as today, immigration hawks drove a hard bargain: no amnesty without beefed-up enforcement and they had the muscle to get most of what they wanted.

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Obama's 'go it alone' immigration reform is a mistake

Aug 28, 2014 3:06pm

WASHINGTON, D.C. For the second time in a month, progressive activists disillusioned with the Obama administrations immigration policies intentionally had themselves arrested outside the White House in what they called an act of civil disobedience.

The highly choreographed sit-in, organized by a coalition of labor, immigration reform and religious groups, featured roughly 100 demonstrators who sat down on the sidewalk outside the presidents residence in an area already cordoned off by law enforcement.After several warnings from law enforcement officers on standby, the scores of protesters were peacefully detained for obstructing sidewalk traffic.

The demonstrators are demanding the federal government cease an estimated 1,000 deportations a day of undocumented immigrants, a number likely to rise as the administration grapples with a surge of thousands who have overwhelmed Southwest states in the last several months, creating a humanitarian crisis. The migrants come mostly from Central America, fleeing violence and epidemic poverty.

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Hundreds of their supporters looked on, waving picket signs that read Dont deport my dad, and, Immigration reform is obstructed by racism.

A mile away at a pre-rally outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency headquarters, organizers said the undocumented would have justice.

Seventeen American citizen children, today, will be losing their moms or dads for a senseless deportation system that ICE does on daily basis, said AFL-CIO executive vice president Tefere Gebre, The president can and will stop this. Yes, we can!

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