{"id":6501,"date":"2014-04-29T12:13:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T16:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6501"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:03:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:03:08","slug":"this-date-in-obamas-administrative-amnesty-april-29-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/04\/29\/this-date-in-obamas-administrative-amnesty-april-29-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"This Date in Obama\u2019s Administrative Amnesty: April 29, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"
One day after meeting with pro-amnesty celebrities<\/a>, President Obama continued to push for the DREAM Act on April 29, 2011 while delivering the commencement address at Miami Dade College in Florida. Obama told the audience<\/a>, \u201cI know that several young people here have recently identified themselves as undocumented\u2026. And I will keep fighting alongside many of you to make the DREAM Act the law of the land.\u201d \u201cWhether your ancestors came here on the Mayflower or a slave ship; whether they signed in at Ellis Island or they crossed the Rio Grande\u2014we are one people,\u201d he told the crowd.<\/p>\n Just two weeks later, on May 11, Senate Democrats reintroduced<\/a> the DREAM Act. This version of the bill (S. 952<\/a>) would have granted amnesty to approximately two million illegal aliens by initially conferring a six-year conditional legal permanent residency (green card status) upon an illegal alien if he\/she met the following requirements (\u00a7\u00a7 3-4):<\/p>\n To have the conditional status removed and become a legal permanent resident, the alien would also have had to complete at least two years at an institute of higher education in the U.S. or serve in the military for at least two years. (\u00a7 5)<\/p>\n Read more at FAIR\u2019s President Obama’s Record of Dismantling Immigration Enforcement<\/a>. \n