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The policy is called the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, or DAPA. It would offer temporary protection from deportation and authorize work permits to about five million undocumented immigrants, most of them parents of U.S. citizens.
originally posted by: onequestion
young adults who need to lay their way through school or make some money on the side too.
originally posted by: Tarzan the apeman.
a reply to: onequestion
You either have a rule of law or you don't. What kind of precedence is this setting?
originally posted by: Tarzan the apeman.
a reply to: onequestion
You either have a rule of law or you don't. What kind of precedence is this setting?
young adults who need to lay their way through school or make some money on the side too.
Nearly three decades ago, there was barely a peep when Reagan and Bush used their authority to extend amnesty to the spouses and minor children of immigrants covered by the 1986 law. In 1986, Congress and Reagan enacted a sweeping overhaul that gave legal status to up to 3 million immigrants without authorization to be in the country, if they had come to the U.S. before 1982. Spouses and children who could not meet that test did not qualify, which incited protests that the new law was breaking up families. Early efforts in Congress to amend the law to cover family members failed. In 1987, Reagan's Immigration and Naturalization Service commissioner announced that minor children of parents granted amnesty by the law would get protection from deportation. Spouses and children of couples in which one parent qualified for amnesty but the other did not remained subject to deportation, leading to efforts to amend the 1986 law. In a parallel to today, the Senate acted in 1989 to broaden legal status to families but the House never took up the bill. Through the INS, Bush advanced a new "family fairness" policy that put in place the Senate measure. Congress passed the policy into law by the end of the year as part of broader immigration legislation. "It's a striking parallel," said Mark Noferi of the pro-immigration American Immigration Council. "Bush Sr. went big at the time. He protected about 40 percent of the unauthorized population. Back then that was up to 1.5 million. Today that would be about 5 million." But a lawyer who worked on the 1986 law and the 1990 follow-up as an aide to then-Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., said Bush's action wasn't controversial because it came after lawmakers had made it clear they were going to tackle the issue. That's not the case now.
originally posted by: onequestion
originally posted by: mikell
It's not about more workers it's about more voters!
I know I made a thread about it recently and everyone laughed at me.
Children.
originally posted by: introvert
a reply to: onequestion
I think you may be in for a big disappointment. Similar actions were taken during the Reagan and Bush presidencies and were perfectly within the authority of the administrations.
Also, we have to come to some sort of solution on this issue and deportation is not it.
originally posted by: introvert
originally posted by: onequestion
originally posted by: mikell
It's not about more workers it's about more voters!
I know I made a thread about it recently and everyone laughed at me.
Children.
That's because it's a ridiculous talking point regurgitated often without proper evidence of it actually occurring on a massive scale.
originally posted by: onequestion
originally posted by: introvert
originally posted by: onequestion
originally posted by: mikell
It's not about more workers it's about more voters!
I know I made a thread about it recently and everyone laughed at me.
Children.
That's because it's a ridiculous talking point regurgitated often without proper evidence of it actually occurring on a massive scale.
You didn't read anything in the op did you?