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标 题: Rubio warns that Obama could expand deferred deportation to cover millions more immigrants
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Aug 13 15:30:01 2013, 美东)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/08/13
Rubio warns that Obama could expand deferred deportation to cover millions
more immigrants
By David Nakamura, Published: August 13 at 10:43 amE-mail the writer
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Demonstrators march against amnesty for illegal aliens, during a rally
against the immigration reform bill in Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington
July 15, 2013. The U.S. Senate passed sweeping immigration legislation at
the end of June. But the legislation's fate is unclear in the Republican-
controlled House, where Republicans are adamant against approving the Senate
version of legislation and are instead talking about passing several bills
that address various immigration problems, but not necessarily legalizing
the estimated 11 million undocumented residents. REUTERS/Jose Luis Magana (
UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY IMMIGRATION CIVIL UNREST)
Demonstrators march against amnesty for undocumented workers on July 15 in
Washington. (Reuters / Jose Luis Magana)
Thursday marks the one-year anniversary of the start of President Obama’s
deferred deportation program for immigrants brought to the country illegally
as children, which he authorized through executive authority last summer.
As The Washington Post reported Tuesday, the Obama administration has
granted more than 400,000 of those immigrants temporary legal status to work
or go to school without fear of deportation.
Now, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is warning that the administration is likely
to dramatically expand the program to cover the majority of the country’s
11 million undocumented immigrants if Congress fails to pass comprehensive
immigration reform.
Rubio has been under fire as a key architect of a Senate-approved plan that
would boost border security, expand the number of work visas for and offer a
13-year path to citizenship for immigrants who are in the nation illegally.
As he defends his position to conservatives who oppose offering potential
citizenship to those immigrants, Rubio argues that Obama can take executive
action that would allow the immigrants to remain here legally — no matter
what Congress does.
“I believe that this president tempted will be tempted, if nothing happens
in Congress, to issue an executive order as he did for the Dream Act kids a
year ago, where he basically legalizes 11 million people by the sign of a
pen,” Rubio said in an interview Tuesday on WFLA’s “The Morning Show with
Preston Scott.”
If that were to happen, Rubio warned, Republicans would not get the
provisions they have been fighting for in the immigration debate, such as
billions of dollars to strengthen border security and a workplace “e-Verify
” system to help ensure that employers do not hire undocumented workers.
“I have tried to come up as best as possible, given who controls the Senate
, with a way to start the conversation to at least address some of these
issues,” Rubio said. “It only gets worse as times goes on.”
Immigration advocates have lobbied the administration to halt deportations
for all but those who commit serious crimes or are repeat offenders, but so
far the president has said he is focused on comprehensive reform and cannot
stop enforcing the law.
“Existing law does not help us solve the problem of having 11 million human
beings living among us. … Unless we’re going to try to round up and
deport 11 million people, something not even the most vociferous opponents
of the bill proposed, we’ll have to address this one way or another,”
Rubio said in the interview. “We can’t leave it the way it is because a
year from now we could find ourselves with all 11 million people here
legally through an executive order from the president.” | C****t
发帖数: 3813 | 2 Rubio and Obama do not differ very much on this issue, because,
Rubio has been under fire as a key architect of a Senate-approved plan that
would boost border security, expand the number of work visas for and offer a
13-year path to citizenship for immigrants who are in the nation illegally.
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: 标 题: Rubio warns that Obama could expand deferred deportation to cover millions more immigrants
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: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/08/13
: Rubio warns that Obama could expand deferred deportation to cover millions
: more immigrants
: By David Nakamura, Published: August 13 at 10:43 amE-mail the writer
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