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11-15-2016, 07:10 PM
Illegals demand Obama issue mass pardons, last-ditch effort to stop Trump deportations
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By Stephen Dinan (http://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/stephen-dinan/) - The Washington Times - Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Illegal immigrants are preparing to ask President Obama to pardon some 750,000 illegal immigrant Dreamers, saying it’s their last, best hope to stave off what they fear will be a wave of deportations once Donald Trump takes office.
Community leaders have planned a rally in New York on Wednesday to make the request.
“Millions of law abiding undocumented immigrants are fearful of what will happen when the new Administration takes control in January,” the group said in a statement announcing the rally. “However, President Obama has the power of pardons that he can use to protect all DACA enrollees.”
As of September, more than 740,000 illegal immigrants had been approved for Mr. Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a mini-amnesty that grants young adult illegal immigrants a two-year stay of deportation and issues them work permits, entitling them to driver’s licenses and some taxpayer benefits.
President-elect Donald Trump has signaled he would cancel that order, putting Mr. Obama in a bind. The president said this week that Mr. Trump should go slowly on rolling back those actions.
But the advocates want more assurances, in the form of a pardon.
Rosemary Jenks, government relations manager at NumbersUSA, which lobbies for stricter immigration enforcement, said an Obama pardon could erase from their records the illegal behavior of entering the country illegally. But the president couldn’t put illegal immigrants on a pathway to citizenship through a pardon.
“He can’t grant them legal status,” she said.
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By Stephen Dinan (http://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/stephen-dinan/) - The Washington Times - Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Illegal immigrants are preparing to ask President Obama to pardon some 750,000 illegal immigrant Dreamers, saying it’s their last, best hope to stave off what they fear will be a wave of deportations once Donald Trump takes office.
Community leaders have planned a rally in New York on Wednesday to make the request.
“Millions of law abiding undocumented immigrants are fearful of what will happen when the new Administration takes control in January,” the group said in a statement announcing the rally. “However, President Obama has the power of pardons that he can use to protect all DACA enrollees.”
As of September, more than 740,000 illegal immigrants had been approved for Mr. Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a mini-amnesty that grants young adult illegal immigrants a two-year stay of deportation and issues them work permits, entitling them to driver’s licenses and some taxpayer benefits.
President-elect Donald Trump has signaled he would cancel that order, putting Mr. Obama in a bind. The president said this week that Mr. Trump should go slowly on rolling back those actions.
But the advocates want more assurances, in the form of a pardon.
Rosemary Jenks, government relations manager at NumbersUSA, which lobbies for stricter immigration enforcement, said an Obama pardon could erase from their records the illegal behavior of entering the country illegally. But the president couldn’t put illegal immigrants on a pathway to citizenship through a pardon.
“He can’t grant them legal status,” she said.