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    White House reveals details of new immigration plan after weeks of silence

    Obama to shield 5 million from deportation

    White House reveals details of new immigration plan after weeks of silence.

    By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN, SEUNG MIN KIM and ANNA PALMER

    11/19/14 10:21 AM EST
    Updated 11/19/14 2:32 PM EST




    President Barack Obama will announce Thursday that he is shielding about 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation, circumventing Congress to provide the most sweeping changes to immigration policy in decades.

    Obama released a video Wednesday previewing his primetime speech and his Friday trip to Las Vegas, where he will promote the executive actions he’s taking.


    “Everybody agrees our immigration system is broken,” Obama said.

    “Unfortunately, Washington has allowed the problem to fester for too long.

    What I am going to be laying out are the things I can do with my lawful authority as president to make the system work better, even as I continue to work with Congress.”


    Senior administration officials began calling immigration reform proponents and lawmakers Wednesday to fill them in on plans for the rollout and the details of the proposal. Obama will host 18 Democratic lawmakers for dinner at the White House on Wednesday evening to brief them on his immigration plans. Invitees include Senate Democratic leaders Harry Reid (Nevada), Dick Durbin (Illinois) and Chuck Schumer (New York), lawmakers involved in immigration policy such as Sen. Robert Menendez (New Jersey) and Rep. Xavier Becerra (California), Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chairman Ruben Hinojosa (Texas) and Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus chairwoman Judy Chu (California), according to multiple congressional aides.


    The executive actions will cover 4 million undocumented immigrants who would qualify for deferred deportations by using criteria such as longevity in the United States and family ties, according to sources briefed on the discussions. Another 1 million would receive protection through other means, two sources said.


    There will be no special protections for farm workers or parents of Dreamers — two categories that groups had lobbied hard for — because there were concerns about those pieces clearing the legal bars, sources said.

    But, administration officials said in their calls, many people who fall into those categories would qualify if they have children who are U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents. Dreamers, in contrast, are undocumented immigrants who were brought to this country by their parents as minors.


    A controversial enforcement program known as Secure Communities will be scrapped and replaced with a new program, the sources said.

    The executive actions are also expected to make modest changes to allow technology companies to keep high-skilled workers with green cards.


    Top aides say that the president will go big.


    Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Wednesday that the reforms the president puts forward will be “comprehensive.” Speaking at an event hosted by the New Democrat Network, a left-leaning think tank, Johnson said the president has “fairly wide latitude” to act under the law.


    “He’s going to go as far as he can under the law,” Domestic Policy Council Director Cecilia Muñoz said Tuesday. Still, the administration acknowledges that there are limits to what he can do. “He’s going to be the first to say that it doesn’t fix everything that’s broken.”


    The White House has not yet detailed its legal justifications for the president’s forthcoming actions, but press secretary Josh Earnest said it will release the administration’s argument on Thursday.


    Dawn Le, of the Alliance for Citizenship, offered a hint at the timing in an email that the AFL-CIO’s Jeff Hauser forwarded to reporters before asking them to “ignore” the previous note.


    “We hear there will be a prime time Thursday evening announcement (to preview) and full unveiling in Vegas on Friday,” Le wrote. “Unclear whether Thursday night content will be what is ‘celebratory,’ but Friday will be where we need a lot of energy guaranteed.”


    Obama is making dual announcements — following up on the Facebook pre-announcement, which reached the feeds of 1.2 million people in the first hour after it was posted — because “the president wants to talk to as many Americans as possible about he intends to move forward,” Earnest said.


    The president’s turn to executive action comes after pushing House Republicans for more than a year to take up the immigration bill passed by the Senate in June 2013. Obama had long held out hope that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) would bring the bill to the floor, but when the speaker told the president that he would not be holding a vote on it in 2014, Obama vowed in a Rose Garden speech to act on his own.


    Obama had initially planned to announce executive actions on immigration at the end of the summer but in September the White House said he would put off a final decision until after Election Day, amid Democrats’ concerns that it would create another complication on the campaign trail ahead of the midterm elections.


    With a nine-day trip to Asia and Australia behind him and Thanksgiving on the horizon, Obama has spent this week working out the final details of his announcement. The trip to Las Vegas brings him full circle from January 2013, when he launched a push pressuring Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform, repeating the mantra “now is the time.”


    He spoke then at Del Sol High School, the same venue the White House has chosen for Friday’s announcement.


    Republicans have been preparing to respond in large part by accusing Obama of overreach and by pointing to his repeated statements last year that he did not have the authority to act on certain pieces of immigration reform.


    “If ‘Emperor Obama’ ignores the American people and announces an amnesty plan that he himself has said over and over again exceeds his Constitutional authority, he will cement his legacy of lawlessness and ruin the chances for congressional action on this issue – and many others,” Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said Wednesday.


    Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) wrote in a POLITICO op-ed on Wednesday that if the president takes action, he “will not be acting as a president, he will be acting as a monarch” and that the Senate should respond by refusing to confirm all his nominees except those for critical national security positions.

    Congress should also limit the administration’s ability to enforce the president’s actions by funding agencies individually and restricting any spending related to immigration laws.


    “If the president is unwilling to accepting funding for, say, the Department of Homeland Security without his being able to unilaterally defy the law, he alone will be responsible for the consequences,” Cruz said.

    Initial Democratic responses are more positive.


    Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Wednesday that Obama’s action would put him in the company of “great” presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and Harry Truman, who both used their executive authorities to expand rights for African Americans. “I think that President Obama ought to put himself alongside these … great presidents and use [an] executive order to do something big on immigration,” he said on MSNBC.


    The legality of the president’s actions, Clyburn added, is up to the courts and not Congress. “Let’s let the courts decide whether it’s constitutional.

    That’s not for Congress to decide, that’s why we have courts to make that decision,” he said.


    Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/1...#ixzz3JXu3v3GN
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    DEVELOPING STORY


    What's in the president's immigration plan?





    Obama to announce action in Thursday address

    President Barack Obama will unveil his long-awaited immigration plan Thursday evening, sources tell CNN, changing deportation rules. FULL STORY



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    Obama to announce immigration executive action in prime time address Thursday

    By Jim Acosta, Athena Jones and Kevin Liptak, CNN
    updated 3:16 PM EST, Wed November 19, 2014
    r video will begin momentarily.
    STORY HIGHLIGHTS

    • President Obama will announce an overhaul of immigration rules during a Thursday night address
    • Obama will follow the announcement with a speech detailing his plan Friday in Las Vegas
    • Obama invited top Democratic lawmakers to the White House for a Wednesday night dinner
    • Republicans have warned that Obama's executive order could stall all legislative work


    Watch President Barack Obama's speech live on Thursday at 8 p.m. ET on CNN.

    Washington (CNN)
    -- President Barack Obama will unveil his long-awaited immigration plan Thursday evening, changing rules governing deportations that could affect millions of undocumented immigrants and setting off an explosive battle with Republicans.


    Obama's prime-time address will be followed Friday by an event in Las Vegas, sources tell CNN. While exact details of his announcement aren't yet public, the basic outline of the plan, as relayed by people familiar with its planning, includes deferring deportation for the parents of U.S. citizens, a move that would affect up to 3.5 million people.


    "Everybody agrees that our immigration system is broken.

    Unfortunately, Washington has allowed the problem to fester for far too long," Obama said in a video posted on his Facebook page Wednesday. "And so what I'm going to be laying out is the things that I can do with my lawful authority as President to make the system work better, even as I continue to work with Congress to encourage them to get a bipartisan, comprehensive bill that can solve the entire problem."


    Obama invited congressional Democratic leaders to the White House for a dinner Wednesday night to discuss his plans for an executive order, a source told CNN.


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    The President declared in June he wouldn't wait for Congress to pass a comprehensive overhaul of the immigration system, initially saying he would announce changes by the end the summer. The decision was delayed until after the midterm elections, when the White House believed it wouldn't be caught up in campaign politics.

    But Republicans are expressing deep anger at the anticipated move, saying unilateral action on immigration would forestall any legislative action.


    T
    wo House Republicans who would play a key role in crafting immigration legislation made a fresh call for Obama to hold off on his plans Wednesday -- and warned that if he goes ahead, they'll try to stop the White House from implementing his executive order.


    "Instead of proceeding with ill-advised executive action, we implore you to work with Congress to enact legislation to address our broken immigration system," Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) said in a letter to Obama.


    Related: 'Orange is the New Black' actress pushes Obama for immigration overhaul


    "We strongly urge you to respect the Constitution and abandon any unconstitutional, unilateral executive actions on immigration. Let's secure the border, enforce our immigration laws in the interior of the United States, and build a broad consensus for immigration reform," they wrote. "Otherwise, as the chairmen of the committees with oversight over border security and our nation's immigration laws, we will be forced to use the tools afforded to Congress by the Constitution to stop your administration from successfully carrying out your plan."


    White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest chided the GOP during his briefing Wednesday, saying concerns about how Obama's immigration move could affect the government funding debate and presidential nominations in the weeks ahead are "predicated on at least the premise that Republicans have been exceedingly cooperative with the president."


    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid -- the Nevada Democrat who will lose his post once Republicans take control of the chamber in January -- lauded Obama's move, saying the GOP forced his hand.


    "Comprehensive immigration reform brings relief to families being torn apart by our broken system," he said. "Comprehensive immigration reform is an economic issue and one we must address.

    That's why I have been so disappointed that Republicans have ducked, dodged and skirted taking up legislation this Congress forcing President Obama to act administratively."


    What's in the plan

    The contours of Obama's announcement have been the subject of speculation among immigration activists for months, though the White House has yet to officially relay what Obama will announce when he speaks to the American people on Thursday night.

    Administration officials say a key part of the announcement will be allowing the parents of American citizens, who are undocumented immigrants themselves, to remain in the United States without the threat of deportation. That would include the parents of legal residents, but not the parents of children eligible for delayed deportation under a rule Obama enacted in 2012.


    Up to 3.6 million people would be affected by that change, according to an estimate from the Migration Policy Institute, though the figures are smaller if Obama's announcement includes a minimum number of years spent in the country.


    Mandating parents live in the U.S. for at least 5 years before becoming eligible would bring the number affected to 3.3 million; a 10-year minimum would bring it down further to an estimated 2.5 million people.


    READ: Immigration fast facts


    Other potential areas of reform include extending the deportation deferment for immigrants who were brought to the United States as children. Altering the age restrictions on that action could allow hundreds of thousands more people to remain in the United States.


    Officials also said the plan could include a stronger focus on deporting criminals who are undocumented immigrants and an expansion of worker visas in areas like technology.


    Lastly, the plan could include new resources to bolster security on the border. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said the "reforms will be comprehensive," and that border security measures will be included.


    Obama's position on immigration could be a popular one. Despite an overall wave of support for GOP candidates, 57% of this year's midterm election voters believe undocumented immigrants should have a chance to apply for legal status, while just 39% want them deported to the country they came from, CNN's exit polls found.


    Those exit polls found that 71% of U.S. midterm voters believe undocumented immigrants should be allowed to stay in the country legally if they meet certain requirements -- while 25% said those immigrants shouldn't be allowed to stay.


    A September CBS/New York Times poll found 51% saying Obama should use his executive powers to address immigration if Congress fails to act while 43% said he should not. A similar ABC/Washington Post survey earlier that month found 52% support for Obama acting on his own.

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