Friday, June 15, 2012

Why some illegal immigrants aren't celebrating Obama’s new policy (+video) - CSMonitor.com

An Obama administration announcement met by cheers and tears of joy from immigration activists has left at least some young illegal immigrants skeptical.

With Hispanic voters upset by his failure to prod Congress into action on immigration reform, President Obama issued an executive order Friday that could allow some 800,000 undocumented immigrants age 30 or younger to remain and work in the United States legally.
Republicans in Congress expectedly attacked the policy, calling it an end-run around the legislative process and a form of back-door amnesty that represented “a breach of faith with the American people," according to Rep. Lamar Smith (R) of Texas.




But more surprisingly, some of the very people set to benefit from the policy change questioned the timing and actual impact of the policy change. Despite Mr. Obama's apparent... Read full story: Why some illegal immigrants aren't celebrating Obama’s new policy (+video) - CSMonitor.com

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