WASHINGTON —
President Obama said Monday he would use his executive power to make
potentially sweeping changes to the nation’s immigration system without
Congress, acknowledging the death of his more than yearlong effort to enact
compromise legislation granting legal status to 11 million immigrants here
illegally.
Mr. Obama said
he had ordered a shift of immigration enforcement resources from the interior
of the country toward the southern border, and was asking his team to report
back to him by the end of the summer on additional actions he could take. The
actions could be as far-reaching as giving work permits and protection from deportation
to millions of immigrants now in the country.
“While I will
continue to push House Republicans to drop the excuses and act — and I hope
their constituents will, too — America cannot wait forever for them to act,”
Mr. Obama said in a statement from the Rose Garden, in which he made plain his
frustration about what he called Republicans’ failure “to pass a darn bill.”
“I’m beginning a new effort to fix as much of our immigration system as I can on my own, without Congress,” he added.
The White House said Mr. Obama decided to take action after Speaker John A. Boehner, Republican from Ohio, told him last week that the House would not vote on immigration legislation this year.
Continue reading the main story at the New York Times online.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/01/us/obama-to-use-executive-action-to-bolster-border-enforcement.html?_r=1
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