President Obama Goes Bold: Relief Extended to 4 Million Undocumented Immigrants
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President Obama Goes Bold: Relief Extended to 4 Million Undocumented Immigrants

President Barack Obama announced Thursday a plan to reform an immigration system that he says “is broken and everybody knows it.” The president’s plan calls for cracking down on illegal border crossings, prioritizing the deportation of felons rather than families, and expanding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program known as DACA. “There are actions…

Read President Obama’s Full Immigration Speech
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Read President Obama’s Full Immigration Speech

President Barack Obama delivered a prime time speech on the nation’s immigration system tonight. The president outlined his plan to provide relief for undocumented immigrants. We have the full text of the speech below: My fellow Americans, tonight, I’d like to talk with you about immigration. For more than 200 years, our tradition of welcoming…

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Undocumented Workers Contributed $100 Billion to Social Security in Past Decade

Undocumented workers are not eligible to receive Social Security benefits, but a new report shows that they paid over $100 billion into the program over the past decade. Unauthorized workers are paying an estimated $13 billion a year in Social Security taxes and only getting around $1 billion back, according to a senior government statistician….

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White House Will Not Deport Immigrant Youth if Death Threat Exists

The crisis on the border has renewed debate over immigration policy. Should the government treat as refugees the children fleeing to the United States from their violent Central American homeland — or should they be returned home? For its part, the White House went on record today saying that they would not deport youth if…

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President Obama Promises Executive Action on Immigration This Year

President Obama said today that he would no longer wait on House Republicans to pass a comprehensive immigration bill as thousands of migrant children remain mired in a bureaucratic jungle that has placed them in inhospitable care. The mostly teenage children have fled their homes in Mexico and Central America where violence and endemic poverty…