NASHVILLE — President Barack Obama spoke here Tuesday in an effort to enlist support for his executive action last month to defer the deportations of up to 4 million immigrants living in the country illegally. In brief remarks at a Nashville community center, Obama defended a plan that has provoked […]
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When President Barack Obama outlined why he was letting as many as 4 million immigrants stay and work legally in this country last month, it sounded like he was talking about Arturo Hernandez. Hernandez, 42, meets the criteria for Obama’s deportation relief. He has a daughter who was born here […]
Short on the heels of a nonbinding House vote to block President Obama’s executive action on immigration, some 20 Democratic U.S. mayors are meeting today in New York City to send a different message: They want to help implement the president’s plan. The meeting, hosted by New York Mayor Bill […]
“We are a nation of immigrants,” President Obama declared last week, as he announced the executive actions he’s taking to defer the deportation of approximately 5 million undocumented immigrants. While the president’s actions do impact the whole nation, there’s a reason he chose to deliver those remarks at Del Sol […]