Latino lawmakers ask Obama to slow deportations of students


Latino lawmakers urged President Barack Obama during a closed-door White House meeting Tuesday to use executive branch authority to slow deportations of illegal immigrant students.

Obama has refused to use his authority to slow deportations, and instead has prodded Congress to pass immigration fix the nation’s broken immigration laws and address the 11 million immigrants in this country illegally.


The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is not asking the president to administratively change the law, said chairman Rep. Charlie Gonzalez, D-San Antonio.

But Gonzalez said the caucus urged the president to concentrate its immigration enforcement assets on criminals, not students or workers.

“We do need to seek a legislative fix, but the reality right now is it would be very difficult with the huge majority the Republicans have in the House of Representatives,â€