{"id":6371,"date":"2014-04-13T11:53:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T15:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6371"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:05:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:05:35","slug":"this-date-in-obamas-administrative-amnesty-april-13-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/04\/13\/this-date-in-obamas-administrative-amnesty-april-13-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"This Date in Obama\u2019s Administrative Amnesty: April 13, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ThisOn April 13, 2011, the Obama administration was exposed for suspending the deportations of over 34,000 illegal aliens<\/a> in fiscal year 2010, approximately 12,000 on the basis of \u201cdeferred action<\/a>.\u201d These numbers were provided to Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). That number dramatically contradicted the number that then DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano provided during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing only the month before, where she testified that the number of illegal aliens who received deferred action was less than 900 in 2010.<\/a><\/p>\n

On the very same day the Obama administration\u2019s real numbers were exposed, April 13, 2011, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), with 20 other Democratic Senators, sent a letter<\/a> to President Obama telling him that granting deferred action to illegal aliens was not enough. \u201cWe would support a grant of deferred action to all young people who meet the rigorous requirements necessary to be eligible for cancellation of removal or a stay of removal under the DREAM Act\u2026.,\u201d the letter read.\u00a0 \u201c[Y]our administration could establish and publicize a process for DREAM Act students to apply for deferred action. Currently, there is no formal process for applying for deferred action, and many DREAM Act students are unaware of this option.\u201d<\/p>\n

Only two weeks before this letter was sent, President Obama had stated that \u201cit was just not the case<\/a>\u201d that he could suspend deportations through executive order. Yet, of course, by June 2012, in the midst of his reelection campaign, President Obama decided to direct DHS to<\/a> implement what he had once proclaimed he did not have the authority to do, and announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy.\u00a0 By now, over 520,000<\/a> requests for deferred action have been approved under the DACA policy alone.<\/p>\n

Read more at FAIR\u2019s President Obama\u2019s Record of Dismantling Immigration Enforcement<\/a>.