Thread: Since Eisenhower, Executive Action Used for Immigration

Report: Since Eisenhower, Executive Action Used for Immigration

BY SUZANNE GAMBOA

When President Barack Obama takes executive action to make immigration reforms, he will be following the lead of several other presidents, an immigration group said in a recently released report.

The report by the American Immigration Council states that every U.S. president since at least 1956 has granted temporary immigration relief of some form.

The following are some highlights, in chronological order, of the council's chart:

• 1956 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower used executive authority to “parole” 923 foreign-born orphans into the custody of U.S. military families seeking to adopt them.
• 1959-72 – Presidents Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon used executive powers to parole into the U.S. a majority of 621,403 Cuban asylum seekers fleeing the Cuban revolution. The Cuban Adjustment Act was pending in Congress at the time.
• 1976 – President Gerald Ford granted so-called extended voluntary departure to protect from deportation an unknown number of Lebanese who fled Lebanon for the U.S. They also were provided work permission.
• 1980 – President Jimmy Carter paroled 123,000 Cubans and Haitians into the U.S. during the Mariel boatliff.
• 1987 - President Ronald Reagan deferred deportation for children in more than 100,000 families if the parents of the families were gaining legal status under the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, IRCA, that granted legalization to about three million immigrants.
• 1990 – President George H. Bush used executive powers to defer deportations of up to 1.5 million spouses and children of people legalized under IRCA.
• 1992 – Presidents George H. Bush and Bill Clinton granted stays of deportation to about 190,000 El Salvadorans whose temporary protected status that allowed them to live and work in the U.S. had expired.
• 2002 – President George W. Bush expedited naturalization for green card holders who enlisted in the military, eliminating a three year wait. No numbers of how many affected was available.
• 2012 – President Barack Obama used executive power to defer deportations for up to 1.8 million young immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/r...ration-n219466

Let's grant that these executive were all well intentioned. The problem remains that the number of illegal aliens has gotten out of hand. Too many Americans have been undercut by employers using illegals, to keep their profits up. Too many Americans have become so discouraged that they've stopped looking for jobs. Far too many Americans are on food stamps. Food stamps!!

We really need a moratorium on immigration, while we decide exactly how much - if any - immigration we actually need.
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Originally Posted by vistalad

. . . We really need a moratorium on immigration, while we decide exactly how much - if any - immigration we actually need.

A moratorium only stops legal immigrants because illegal aliens don't obey any of our laws.