Border Surge:
Obama Admin. Expands Program To Bring Central Americans to the U.S.
by Caroline May 27 Jul 2016
In response to the ongoing surge in illegal
immigration from Central America, the Obama Administration is expanding its already
controversial program to bring would-be illegal immigrants to the United States
as refugees and parolees.
The State Department says
it is growing the list of aliens eligible for the administration’s existing Central
American Minors program. The CAM
program grants certain immigrant parents — who are largely ineligible for
family reunification programs, like illegal immigrants granted amnesty
— the ability to bring their unmarried children (under the age of 21) or legal
spouse and child who currently live in Honduras, Guatemala, or El Salvador to the U.S.
Under the changes to the CAM program announced Tuesday,
the menu of Central American relatives for whom immigrants in the U.S. may
petition to bring to the U.S. is larger. Lawful permanent residents, and those
with temporary protected status, parole, withholding of removal, deferred
action, and deferred enforced departure may now petition to have their children
over the age of 21; the in-country biological parent of a qualified child; and
caregivers of their minor children who are related to them.
“As the United States has made clear in the past, we are
committed to protecting Central Americans at risk and expanding resettlement
opportunities in the region,” the State Department said in a statement to the
media. “The steps taken today, and over the past year, are another example of
the creative solutions being taken across the federal government to make
progress on this issue. ”
Republicans and immigration hawks have blasted the CAM
program as another Obama Administration effort to circumvent Congress and flout
immigration law while adding to the ongoing border surge.
Following the announced expansion, House Judiciary
Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) doubled down in the criticism calling
the program expansion “simply a continuation of the government-sanctioned
border surge.”
“Tens of thousands of unlawful immigrants continue to
arrive at the Southwest border to benefit from the President’s lax immigration
enforcement, and now many more can simply use this government-run program to
come here,” he said. “By allowing unlawful immigrants to benefit from this
program, the Obama Administration undermines the integrity of our immigration
system and the rule of law, and makes the system unfair for those who seek to
come to the United States legally.”
As Goodlatte noted, parole is intended to be used on a
case-by-case basis, however, the administration plans to use it for those
Central Americans who would be otherwise unqualified to come to the U.S. as
refugees.
“Rather than take the steps necessary to end the ongoing
crisis at the border, the Obama Administration perpetuates it by abusing a
legal tool meant to be used sparingly to bring people to the United States and
instead applying it to the masses in Central America,” he added.
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Austin LLP, and Mayor Richard M.
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Austin LLP, and the attorney for ACORN
vs. Illinois State Board of Elections.
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of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).
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of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) was the plaintiff in ACORN
vs. Illinois State Board of Elections.
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was a canvasser for the Association of
Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), is a judge for the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit,
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Williams is a judge for
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, and a trustee at the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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tank), the Aspen Institute (think
tank), Refugees International,
and Amnesty International.
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emeritus at Refugees International.
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an honorary trustee at the Brookings
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Hamilton’s uncle, an advisory board member for the Annenberg-Dreier Commission at Sunnylands, and a co-chair for the Independent Task Force on Immigration and
America's Future.
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the U.S. Department of State, a U.S.
ambassador for El Salvador, and a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think
tank).
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is an advisory board member for the Annenberg-Dreier
Commission at Sunnylands, the chairman for the Council of the Americas, and was a U.S. ambassador for Honduras.
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most effective means to achieve regional economic growth. It has been a
supporter of free trade agreements and has been instrumental in the conception
of the North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA) and the Central
American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).
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Crown is the vice chairman for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
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member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
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Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
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the first lady for the Barack Obama
administration.
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Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP, the attorney for ACORN vs.
Illinois State Board of Elections, and is the president for the Barack Obama administration.
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a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Ann Claire
Williams is a trustee at the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, and a judge for the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the 7th Circuit.
David F. Hamilton
is a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, Lee H. Hamilton’s nephew, and was a canvasser
for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).
Lee H. Hamilton is David F. Hamilton’s uncle, an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), an advisory board member for the Annenberg-Dreier Commission at Sunnylands, a co-chair for the Independent Task Force on Immigration and
America's Future, and was a co-chair for the Iraq Study Group.
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Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
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director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was a
member of the Iraq Study Group, and
a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
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is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and was Mayor
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Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
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is married to William C. Ayers, was
a member of the Weather Underground,
and a litigator at Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama
was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP, Mayor Richard M. Daley’s staffer, and is
the first lady for the Barack Obama
administration.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP, the attorney for ACORN vs.
Illinois State Board of Elections, a chairman for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a director at the Woods Fund of Chicago, and is the president for the Barack Obama administration.
Sidley Austin
LLP was the legal adviser for the Association
of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).
Association
of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) was the plaintiff in ACORN
vs. Illinois State Board of Elections.
David F. Hamilton
was a canvasser for the Association of
Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), is a judge for the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit,
and Lee H. Hamilton’s nephew.
Ann Claire
Williams is a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, and a trustee at the Carnegie
Corporation of New York.
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Lee H. Hamilton is
an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), David F.
Hamilton’s uncle, an advisory board member for the Annenberg-Dreier Commission at Sunnylands, a co-chair for the Independent Task Force on Immigration and
America's Future, and was a co-chair for the Iraq Study Group.
Thomas R.
Pickering is a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), an advisory board member for
the Annenberg-Dreier Commission at
Sunnylands, was the undersecretary for the U.S. Department of State, a U.S. ambassador for El Salvador, and a lifetime trustee at
the Aspen Institute (think tank).
John D. Negroponte
is an advisory board member for the Annenberg-Dreier
Commission at Sunnylands, the chairman for the Council of the Americas, and was a U.S. ambassador for Honduras.
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