White House: Obama will act on immigration despite GOP warnings to hold off

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What's your analysis? Who do you think will be among those 5 million people? Surely that's not only parents of USCs. I strongly think people who have been here for more than 10 years will be included. I think Boehner has done us a favor. Obama will be more liberal now with his decision.

Read an article wherein the editor mentioned that Pres. Obama could've pattern/revised a few of it in his E.O. to the comprehensive bill that passed the Senate where individuals who have been here(certain no. of yrs)would be included provided they pay the fine,back taxes,go back at the end of the line for a path to citizenship. I mean the article has a point since New congress doesn't seem to have or interested tackling immigration in their agenda anyway. Editor pointing out that Pres. Obama should go for the big sweep.

I might sound selfish right now but the renewal process for DACA was a B***h as is. Imagine adding millions more into the process. They need to ensure they have capacity before anything else. If this is going to delay my renewal process, I am okay with my parents not getting anything. They have a SS and DL (from states that allow illegals to have one) thus, they are doing fine.

P.S.- Please don't jump on me in defense. Just sharing my concern. I almost lost my job during the renewal process. This is not funny in corporate America.

Let's look at it this way. As of 2012, there were 3.8 million undocumented parents whose children were U.S. citizens. I've read that there are approximately 900,000 or so parents of DACA beneficiaries. Then there are the 1,711,000 undocumented people who are the spouses of USCs or LPRs who cannot legalize their status due to facing 10 year bar. That's a total of 6,411,000 potential beneficiaries. If 75% of those people qualify based on the length of stay requirement (10 years), that's a total of 4,808,250. Close to the 5 million estimate.

Those numbers can change depending on the final number of years required to have lived in the U.S. Even if the EO includes extending relief to migrant workers, I think that would still be around 5 million. And they may already be included in the totals for parents of minor USCs or DACA beneficiaries.

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I was just watching Face the Nation and it really seems like he's going to go through with it and made the point we've been making on here that Republicans are still free to pass their immigration bill. This shouldn't change that if they are legitimately concerned about immigration.

Statistician Fresh this means ERRYBODY who has passed a certain number of years shall be included! Man I can't wait for this. It's about time they give same rights as DACA to older dreamers like my man Aman and Antonio Vargas, I believe he aged out as well?!

Don't be concerned. My opinion is that if you follow USCIS guidelines and submit your paperwork ON TIME as they suggest, your work will be done on time as they say. Rest is for them to worry about not us. Other than this USCIS does already deal with a lot of other people's applications such as adjustments to status and what not.

That's selfish

I wonder if he realizes that other parents don't have a ssn and a dl as his parent does.