{"id":6496,"date":"2014-04-28T17:06:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T21:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6496"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:03:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:03:22","slug":"this-date-in-obamas-administrative-amnesty-april-28-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/04\/28\/this-date-in-obamas-administrative-amnesty-april-28-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"This Date in Obama\u2019s Administrative Amnesty: April 28, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ThisOn this date three years ago, President Obama held a meeting in the White House\u2019s Roosevelt Room with celebrities<\/a> from the Hispanic community to discuss \u201ccomprehensive immigration reform.\u201d Notable attendees included<\/a> actresses Eva Longoria and America Ferrera, television hosts Jose Diaz-Balart of Telemundo (the brother of pro-amnesty U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)) and Maria Elena Salinas of Univision, Emilio Estefan (husband to singer Gloria Estefan), and Voto Latino Executive Director Maria Teresa Kumar.\u00a0 Senior White House aides<\/a> Valerie Jarrett and David Plouffe also attended the meeting.\u00a0 Both the celebrity attendees and the White House confirmed that the meeting primarily focused<\/a> on passing a DREAM Act. Just over a year later in June 2012, President Obama announced his own executive DREAM Act, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).<\/p>\n

Now, true to form, the Obama Administration is continuing to meet with pro-amnesty stakeholders only to discuss an even broader amnesty. Just last week, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson met with several \u201cstakeholders\u201d on the issue of immigration, yet only pro-amnesty voices<\/a> were at the meeting. Those in attendance included FWD.us Executive Director, Todd Schulte; Senior Vice President for Labor, Immigration, & Employee Benefits at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Randy Johnson; and National Immigration Forum Executive Director, Ali Noorani.<\/p>\n

FAIR\u2019s President, Dan Stein, blasted the move<\/a> as political theater. \u201cThe most important stakeholders in U.S. immigration policy are the American people, not the people who break our laws, and not the business interests that want greater access to low-wage foreign labor,\u201d he declared. \u201cYet, for the past five and half years, the Obama administration has consistently refused to acknowledge the interests of struggling American workers and taxpayers who are adversely affected by excessive levels of immigration and lax enforcement.\u201d