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White House Honors Young Adults Who Came to US Illegally
The Hill ^ | 6/16/2014

Posted on 06/18/2014 4:44:46 PM PDT by Altura Ct.

The White House will honor 10 young adults on Tuesday who came to the United States illegally and qualified for the president’s program to defer deportation actions.

Each person has qualified for the government’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program, which delays removal proceedings against them as long as they meet certain guidelines.

They will be honored as “Champions of Change,” the White House said in a statement Monday because they “serve as success stories and role models in their academic and professional spheres.”

They emigrated from Mexico, Colombia, Morocco, India, Taiwan and the Philippines, and many of them work in professions related to immigration policy or have helped launch initiatives that promote reform.

In 2012, President Obama created the program through an executive order, which defers any action on the status of people who came to the U.S. illegally as children for two years and can be renewed. It doesn’t provide any legal status.

People who qualify include those who came to the U.S. before turning 16, resided in the U.S. continuously since 2007 and people who are either currently in school, have graduated or received a certificate of completion for high school or were honorably discharged from the military.

Program recipients also cannot have been convicted of a felony, significant misdemeanor or three or more misdemeanors.

The event comes with the prospects for immigration reform dim, following the defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) in his GOP primary last week.

Obama had recently directed Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to delay his review of the government’s deportation policy in hopes that Congress could pass a reform bill by the August recess.

After Cantor’s downfall, however, many believe it is unlikely the GOP-controlled House will move on immigration ahead of November’s midterm elections.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: aliens; dreamer; immigration; mexico
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To: Altura Ct.; Liz

They emigrated
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no they didn’t

illegal aliens don’t “emigrate”


21 posted on 06/18/2014 6:53:33 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Altura Ct.

White House Honors Young Adults Who Came to US Illegally
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But not Nana who as a young adult came here LEGALLY...

Nana uz a bad person...

(Nana hangs her head in shame)


22 posted on 06/18/2014 6:56:44 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Artcore

Blow me Rombot.


23 posted on 06/18/2014 7:00:22 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: tumblindice

It’s not that simple. Romney or Obama. Those are the choices you had. That’s it. There has to be one that disgust you more than the other, and when it comes to Presidential power, it’s worth getting off the couch to lessen the blow to our nation.

A better analogy might be to ask, if someone is holding a gun to your head and one is a pellet gun and the other a .357, which one do you choose? You just don’t have the choice to sit it out. Decide now, or certainly die. Unfortunately, our country chose death.


24 posted on 06/18/2014 7:10:39 PM PDT by Greenpees (Coulda Shoulda Woulda)
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To: Tennessee Nana; ken5050; Jane Long; sickoflibs; TADSLOS; AuntB
Hillary's back-pedalling like crazy---watch her run over Obama w/ her campaign bus.

Hillary stunned a CNN audience on Tuesday by saying that the US should deport thousands of unaccompanied minors swarming at the border. "They should be sent back as soon as it can be determined who responsible adults in their families are. Just because your child gets across the border, that doesn't mean the child gets to stay," she warned parents south of the border

Betcha that statement was group-focused for voter-impact before she dared utter it.

As Ken5050 posted----we eagerly await Cong Gutierrez's response.

25 posted on 06/19/2014 3:17:58 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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To: Liz

Classic Clinton triangulation. Pretty soon, she’s gonna comb her hair like Reagan and talk like Maggie Thatcher.


26 posted on 06/19/2014 5:03:14 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: drpix

Then maybe those 4 million conservative would have joined the fight and voted!
= = = = = = = = = = = =
Don’t forget, some of the ones that Romney and crew destroyed, alienated the Candidate so bad that they nor their backers did not even think of raising a finger in ‘favor’ of Mitt.

WELL, other than ‘that’ one.....


27 posted on 06/19/2014 5:24:34 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)"Better to keep your enemies inside peeing out, rather than keep them outside, peeing in.".)
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To: Liz
Like the Alinsky inspired Commie mentored* lawyer she is, she has inserted her loopholes. Just 2 are:

1) "as soon as" in your quote "as soon as it can be determined who responsible adults in their families."

How will that be "determined" or how far will those illegal children be question when Holder's 1st response was to send scores of lawyer down to "defend" them.

2) Even more direct is her next sentence in the same paragraph of your quote“There are concerns about whether all of them should be sent back, but I think all of them who can be should be reunited with their families.” (LINK)

That's "I think all of them who can be" "reunited with their families" - EVEN if their families are illegally in the US.

[ *From frontpagemag.com: “That summer she went to work at the most important radical law firm in America at that point: Truehaft, Walker and Bernstein in Oakland... Two of their partners were members of the Communist Party." ]

28 posted on 06/19/2014 5:45:22 AM PDT by drpix
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To: Altura Ct.

White House Honors Young Adults Who Came to US Illegally By Using Taxpayer money to have parties for them and congratulates them being successfully in breaking Americans laws


29 posted on 06/19/2014 9:06:29 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
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