Showing posts with label Julia Preston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Julia Preston. Show all posts

Saturday, November 15, 2014

Court battle dead ahead

November 15, 2014 Amnesty , Ashley Parker 0 Comments
Obama Plans To Protect Up To 5 Million From Deportation

Michael D. Shear, Julia Preston, and Ashley Parker, Nov. 13, 2014, New York Times

President Barack Obama is expected to ignore angry protests from Republicans and announce as soon as next week a broad overhaul of the nation's immigration enforcement system that will protect up to 5 million undocumented immigrants from the threat of deportation and provide many of them with work permits, according to administration officials who have direct knowledge of the plan.

Asserting his authority as president to enforce the nation's laws with discretion, Obama intends to order changes that will significantly refocus the activities of the government's 12,000 immigration agents. One key piece of the order, officials said, will allow many parents of children who are U.S. citizens or legal residents to obtain legal work documents and no longer worry about being discovered, separated from their families and sent away.

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Saturday, April 12, 2014

Hoping For Asylum, Migrants Strain U.S. Border --Obama's "DREAM" magnet. Who saw THAT Coming?

April 12, 2014 Illegal Immigration , Julia Preston 0 Comments
Source:  sodahead.com

By Julia Preston, Apr. 10, 2014, The New York Times

HIDALGO, Tex. — Border Patrol agents in olive uniforms stood in broad daylight on the banks of the Rio Grande, while on the Mexican side smugglers pulled up in vans and unloaded illegal migrants.

The agents were clearly visible on that recent afternoon, but the migrants were undeterred. Mainly women and children, 45 in all, they crossed the narrow river on the smugglers’ rafts, scrambled up the bluff and turned themselves in, signaling a growing challenge for the immigration authorities.

After six years of steep declines across the Southwest, illegal crossings have soared in South Texas while remaining low elsewhere. The Border Patrol made more than 90,700 apprehensions in the Rio Grande Valley in the past six months, a 69 percent increase over last year.

The migrants are no longer primarily Mexican laborers. Instead they are Central Americans, including many families with small children and youngsters without their parents, who risk a danger-filled journey across Mexico. Driven out by deepening poverty but also by rampant gang violence, increasing numbers of migrants caught here seek asylum, setting off lengthy legal procedures to determine whether they qualify.

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