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Originally Posted by freshh.
Some interesting conversations came through my Twitter feed this morning. One involved two prominent immigration attorneys.
One of the two thinks there is a 10-12 week window of opportunity for Republicans. If nothing happens between the middle of June and the beginning of July, the President is highly likely to issue an executive order. The next question is just how far is the administration willing to go (see the CHC wishlist i.e. DACA beneficiaries joining the military and, therefore, allowing us to naturalize through what is an existing channel and/or deferred action for people who would qualify for legal status under the Senate bill). The other attorney agreed.
Another development were comments made by Becky Tallent at the AILA luncheon today that involved the passage of a GOP backed version of the DREAM Act.
Either way, something will happen before August recess. Whether it will be via the President or Congress is still up in the air.
Just a little food for thought: The Senate bill passed June 27, 2013. June 27th of this year is on a Friday. DACA was announced June 15, 2012, also a Friday.
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Interesting.
I believe in the end (until the next president is elected or much later after that), the highest possibility now is a broad scale temp relief via Obama and his administration, a Dream Act passing Congress, and then nothing else to be done for like 5-10 years if not more.
I mean, even Boner is going with the "We don't trust Obama" flow, that basically means nothing will be done in Congress until Obama finishes his presidency, and yet if a Democrat wins the next presidential election, the repube hate will just pool over to that Democrat for those 4 years, and so on and so forth.
Such a sad, depressing reality.