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Obama announces new immigration policy
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Controversial immigration plan announced
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- Date Jun 16, 2012
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In a Rose Garden ceremony President Obama announced he cited new executive order.
-- will affect as many as 800000.
Young illegal immigrants who have lived in fear of being deported.
Makes -- -- expel talented young people.
Who for all intents and purposes are America effective immediately they can request a work permit to stay in the country legally if they came to the US is children.
Are under the age of thirty are in school or the military and haven't broken the law.
Temporary stopgap measure.
Lets us focus our resources.
While giving a leaf.
Well the talented.
-- Patriotic.
The president says he's acting because congress won't.
But Republicans are calling it a power -- he's gone around congress during a taping of fox Chicago Sunday Republican congressman Adam can zinger told me the president is acting unilaterally because he couldn't get the DREAM Act.
Through congress.
The problem is right now.
Using executive orders he's basically brought the executive branch and said we're gonna make policy ourselves we're gonna make laws ourselves a -- to be debated in congress this -- historic humanitarian moment.
In American history Illinois senator Dick Durbin praised the president for what he calls political courage.
It is an opportunity for us to demonstrate to the world the values and caring of a great nation.
An equally important it gives to these young people these young men and women a chance to be part of our future.
But some Republicans call it a political stunt by president courting the critical Hispanic vote.
At least one Republican congressman says he plans to -- the Obama administration.
Tried to stop the executive order from taking effect.
They -- -- fox Chicago news.
