Obama's New Immigration Initiative
Connor Strange
Co-Editor-in-Chief
President Obama has put his main focus of attention on immigration in recent weeks with his new policy on the controversial topic.
Obama claims the plan is a middle-of-the-road solution to America’s “broken” immigration system. The policy effectively protects undocumented immigrants who have lived within the United States borders for five years or longer from deportation. Immigrants without criminal records will be allowed to apply for the program. These number four million to five million people out of an estimated 12 to 20 million total immigrants. While Nebraska may not be the largest center of immigration, the bill will still affect cities like Crete, Lexington and Freemont.
Another demographic in candidacy for the deportation deterrent are young immigrants who came to the States as children.
All of the protected parties will be allowed to find occupation legally and to retain protection from any threat of deportation for three years.
However, the new policy doesn’t supply the health care program from the Affordable Care Act to the newly-protected immigrants.
That issue has caused some questions to arise toward the plan, and it is receiving a little flak from the left-leaning for not doing enough. On the other end of the spectrum, nobody’s very happy at all.
As is customary, Republican parties were prepared to do all they could to prevent President Obama from acting upon his goals for the plan set in 2010. Despite the opposition, Obama has made it clear since a speech in 2013 that he will not refrain from using unilateral action to put this policy into action.
Today, Obama will travel to Nevada, a state with a large amount of immigration from the southern border, to gather support for his plan.
