The Obama Administration’s Immigration Action
Overview of Guidance to Suspend Some Deportations
On November 20, 2014, President Barack Obama delivered a televised address wherein he broadly described the steps that his Administration is taking to “fix” what he has repeatedly described as a “broken immigration system.” Following the President’s address, Executive agencies made available intra-agency memoranda and fact sheets detailing specific actions that have already been taken, or will be taken in the future. These actions generally involve either border security, the current unlawfully present population, or future legal immigration. The announced Executive actions — particularly the granting of deferred action and employment authorization to some unlawfully present aliens — have revived…
