President Obama's recent actions to effectively exempt millions of
unauthorized immigrants from deportation and to issue them work permits has caused frustration among many who believe that neither the precedents nor the law support the his actions.
Earlier on Thursday, Trump described his efforts to remove
unauthorized immigrants from the US as «a military operation,» a phrase that seemed to contradict efforts from White House officials who said the military would not be involved with the deportation plans.
Not exact matches
Democrats will face their toughest odds on codifying DACA, the Obama - era immigration program that shields
from deportation more than 700,000
unauthorized immigrants who entered the US as minors.
President Donald Trump and lawmakers have been at loggerheads for months over the fate of young
unauthorized immigrants known as «Dreamers,» who are temporarily protected
from deportation under the Obama - era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
He said today that Apple will do «everything we can» to encourage Congress to make the bipartisan Dream Act — legislation that would offer a path to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of young
unauthorized immigrants brought to the U.S. as children if they graduated
from high school or obtained a GED — permanent.
When President Donald Trump announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in September, he said he was giving Congress six months to find a legislative solution that would allow the 690,000 young
unauthorized immigrants currently protected
from deportation under DACA to stay in the country legally.
From Steve King's comments about
unauthorized immigrant children to Donald Trump's promises of mass deportations, it can seem that our politics is forcing us to choose between the foreign and native - born members of our working - class.
The amount of state and local taxes collected
from unauthorized immigrants is estimated to increase by $ 86 million once federal executive actions are fully in place.
Research by Pugatch and Sarah Bohn of the Public Policy Institute of California showed that for every 1,000 additional border patrol agents assigned to prevent
unauthorized migration to a U.S. state, the state's share of Mexican
immigrants declined by nearly 22 percentage points during the period
from 1994 to 2011.
The researchers analyzed emergency Medicaid claims data
from 5653
unauthorized immigrant mothers
from Oregon, all born between 1980 and 1982.