Posted on 12/13/2014 6:05:20 AM PST by Din Maker
In small-town community centers, schools, churches and a vast city convention center, immigrant advocates are spreading the word about President Barack Obama's plan to give millions of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally a temporary reprieve.
The November announcement promising work permits and protection from deportation made a splash, but lawyers say the events are crucial to dispel rumors about eligibility, ward off fraud, and help immigrants determine what they might need to apply.
In Los Angeles, advocates are hosting an information session for as many as 10,000 people at the city's convention center Sunday.
"After this big forum, we're going to have daily orientations. That is what we have to do in order to deal with the demand," said Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles.
Immigrants are eager to see if they qualify for Obama's executive actions to spare nearly 5 million people from deportation and to refocus enforcement efforts on criminals.
Workshops for immigrants already have been held at a high school in Knoxville, Tennessee, a church in Goshen, Indiana, and an Islamic Center in New York City. Eben Cathey, a spokesman for the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, said his organization has an event almost every night.
"Every time we do an information session, it is full," he said.
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"Obama enlarges Democrats' voter base for 2016 Elections".
And this is why his not signing the EO is not an impediment to actually implementing it - it will serve as an impediment to unraveling the legalities and arguing court cases against it. More complicity bonus gifts from Boehner and company...
Stupid cannibals.
It’s so much easier to rule over an uneducated rabble than an informed body politic, so duh, why not?
That would be the perfect place for ICE to round them up and deport them. Oh, wait, never mind.
Spare nearly 5 million people from deportation and to refocus enforcement efforts on criminals.
Oxymoron at it’s finest.
Some of them are NOT attending these workshops because they fear that very thing.
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