Thread: Senate Dems To Obama: Stop Deporting DREAM Act Students

22 Democratic senators ask Obama to help young immigrants stay in US:

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The Canadian Press - ONLINE EDITION

By: The Associated Press

14/04/2011 6:10 PM

WASHINGTON - Twenty-two Senate Democrats are pressuring President Barack Obama to delay deportations of certain young immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

The senators ask in a letter for deferrals of any deportations of the young immigrants brought to the U.S. by parents who arrived or stayed illegally.

The senators also suggest smaller steps the president can take to help the young immigrants, such as making sure they know they can request deportation delays.

In the letter sent Wednesday, the senators acknowledge that Obama must enforce the law but say exercising prosecutorial discretion has a long history in the U.S. and is consistent with the rule of law.

Last year, the House passed the DREAM Act, which would have allowed the youths to stay in the U.S., but it failed in the Senate.

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Senate Dems To Obama: Stop Deporting DREAM Act Students:

First Posted: 04/14/11 06:14 PM ET

Updated: 04/14/11 06:22 PM ET

WASHINGTON -- Leading Senate Democrats, including Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.), called on the president on Wednesday to stop deporting undocumented young people who grew up in the United States.

A letter signed by 22 Senate Democrats asks President Barack Obama to use his executive authority to prevent deportation of young people who would have benefited from the DREAM Act, a bill that failed in the upper chamber last year. The legislation would have allowed undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. as children to stay, provided they kept a clean record and either enrolled in college or joined the military.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and her Democratic co-signers said in the letter that they will try to push to pass the DREAM Act through the Senate this session. But facing strong opposition from the Republican-led House, the senators argued the president should move in the meantime to help DREAM Act-eligible students and military service members.

"Current law unfairly punishes thousands of young people who grew up here and know only America as their home, holding them back from making a contribution to our country's military and economy," Gillibrand said in a statement within the message to Obama. "These young people deserve better."

Fellow New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the leading Democrat on immigration, sent a separate letter to the Obama administration on Thursday with a similar thrust.

The White House has pledged support for the bill. But the administration has been unreceptive to requests to block DREAM Act-eligible young people from deportation. Homeland Security Sec. Janet Napolitano said her agency would stay the course on immigration, even if it meant deporting students who would be protected under the legislation.

"I am not going to stand here and say that there are whole categories that we will, by executive fiat, exempt from the current immigration system -- as sympathetic as we feel towards them," she said at a recent appearance. Still, Napolitano added that cracking down on undocumented young people is "not the priority."

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The senators also suggest smaller steps the president can take to help the young immigrants, such as making sure they know they can request deportation delays.

So here we have 22 senators evidently representing Americans and yet they are requesting the president remind illegal invaders that they can delay their deportations - as if these invaders don't already know this! That’s so fundamentally wrong that it almost defies reality.
Imagine what a third-world toilet bowl this country would be with dems like this in charge. The race to the bottom couldn't happen fast enough for these traitors.

Our government positions need to be filled with persons sympathetic to their countrymen FIRST and FOREMOST. Why is Napolitano so concerned with the welfare of other nationals before those of her own? Could there be some reason for her to be prejudiced I wonder?

I find it to be kind of odd and very strange to read information in the news, which is spread nationwide that our Country lawmakers are trying to per sway the United States President to aid and abet illegal immigrants, residing in the U.S. undocumented.

I also find it very difficult to understand why any persons would disobey U.S. laws and not live by sworn Constitutional Oaths.

This is very troubling news folks.