Thousands of Young Illegal Aliens Line Up for Deportation Deferrals

Hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants scrambled to obtain documentation on Wednesday as the United States government began accepting their applications for temporary work permits.

In June, President Barack Obama announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program after Hispanic voters and others said he hadn’t fulfilled his campaign promise to revamp the U.S.’s jumbled immigration laws. The new strategy is to discontinue deportation of many illegal immigrants who came into the U.S. as children.

The Migration Policy Institute and the Pew Hispanic Center calculate that about 1.7 million people will be eligible to stay in the U.S. and obtain work legally under the new plan.

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program openly disregards Congress, America’s existing immigration laws and the U.S. Constitution. To understand the sobering implications of the Obama administration’s flagrant disregard of the Constitution, read “President Obama Appeases Immigrants by Sidestepping Congress.”