Call For Pres. Obama to Halt Deportations With Executive Order

Today’s Guest Blogger is Presente.org. Presente.org is a national organization that exists to amplify the political voice of Latino communities.

Last week, over 20,000 of us called on President Obama to live up to his promises on immigration by halting the deportations of young people eligible for the DREAM Act.
Today there are literally thousands of students facing deportation from the only home they have ever known because the DREAM Act still isn’t law. President Obama has the power to help them—all he has to do is issue an executive order to halt their deportation until the DREAM Act is passed.

Issuing an executive order is a simple action that would have a powerful impact. It would protect thousands of hard working young people and also show voters that the president is interested in more than just talking about immigration reform—it would show that he is serious about action.
Throughout history, many presidents have stepped up to take similar executive actions on critical issues facing our country—especially when those facing oppression needed intervention and relief.

Check out this list of 6 of the most powerful executive orders in history. Once you’ve checked it out, please share it with your friends and colleagues and urge them to join the movement calling on President Obama to halt the deportation of the DREAMers.


PRESENTE.ORG’S SIX FAVORITE EXECUTIVE ORDERS IN HISTORY

6. Equal Employment Opportunity. At the height of the Civil Rights Movement, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Executive Order 11246 which bars discrimination in federal employment because of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.1
5. Affirmative Action. On March 6, 1961 President John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order 10925, which included a provision that government contractors “take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.” 2
4. Works Progress Administration. In 1935, at the height of the Great Depression, FDR used Executive Order number 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration, which put more than 8.5 million Americans back to work rebuilding the country one bridge, road, and mural at a time. 3
3. Desegregation of Schools. In 1954 the Supreme Court decided Brown vs. Board of Education. But it would take much more than a court order to end school segregation, as the nation saw in 1957 when Arkansas Governor Orville Faubus refused to comply. Dwight D. Eisenhower’S EO 10730 placed the Arkansas National Guard under Federal control and sent in U.S. army troops to ensure that nine black children could safely attend Little Rock High School. 4
2. The Emancipation Proclamation. Need we say more? The Proclamation freed all slaves living in the Confederacy, though left out the border states of Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia, which had yet to secede. 5
1. The end of DREAMer deportations. Yes, we know. This one hasn’t happened yet. But we fervently believe that the President can follow in the footsteps of his predecessors. And that’s the thing about history—it keeps getting rewritten with every new day!
Please share this list with your friends and family. And if they haven’t yet, please ask them to join the call for President Obama to halt DREAMer deportations.
Please sign a petition here
Thanks and ¡adelante!

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Yet we are also telling him to stop talking about the Dream Act, smart move leaders.

This is great.

Wont happen till after he gets re-elected or is not re=elected then he will do it as he is leaving office just like: Bill Clinton.

Obama is going to get elected. I think DA will pass this year though.

We are hopeful that democrats get some more power to help us all especially here in Texas where we have no power at all. Obama will once again face huge odds against him though because there has never been a president win re-election with such horrible economic numbers. I sometime think it does not matter who the president is anymore the power comes from the Senate and house that is were we need to make strides. Obama has been as two faced as any politician ever on the Dream Act he has used it for political gain with no action.