HUFFINGTON POST: The Obama administration announced Friday that it will stop deporting law-abiding young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and will instead begin granting them work permits.
The new policy will achieve many of the goals of the DREAM Act, stalled legislation that would establish a path to citizenship for undocumented young people who have attended college or served in the military.
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano noted, however, that this new policy would not take care of everything. “I continue to urge Congress to pass the DREAM Act and re-examine our immigration system as a whole,” Napolitano said… (more)
