That letter dismissed all the arguments from the Obama administration that they can't grant deffered action to dreamers. Obama is being pushed into a corner here and i like it!!!
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The White House is urging lawmakers to back away from a campaign led by Hispanic Democrats to block deportations involving U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants, a move that risks antagonizing Latino voters crucial to President Barack Obama’s re-election.
The administration argues that it doesn’t have the legal authority to exempt certain immigrant categories from the law.
“With respect to the notion that I can just suspend deportations through executive order, that’s just not the case,” Obama said at a March 28 town hall sponsored by the Univision television network. “There are laws on the books that Congress has passed.”
“You don’t have to deport them, Mr. President, you can parole them in place,” Gutierrez said, previewing the argument he will make with Obama when they meet later this month to discuss immigration issues. “The goal is to say that the young people in the Dream Act should be paroled in place.”
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http://preview.bloomberg.com/news/20...akers-say.html
It is time for Obama to spend some political capital on this issue.