Over the weekend, President Obama announced that he is delaying his highly anticipated announcement on executive action until after the midterm elections, and the pro-reform community exploded in furor. Today, our own Frank Sharry of America’s Voice, Erika Andiola of DRM Action, and Angela Kelley of the Center for American...
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Immigration reform advocates are furious that President Obama has once again chosen to delay taking executive action on immigration reform and providing relief for millions of families. They are calling out President Obama for his misguided political calculation, poor timing, and lack of sympathy for the tens of thousands...
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La Opinion, Telemundo and Univision Criticize Broken Promise, While Recent Latino Polling Shows Missed Political Opportunity President Obama’s announced delay of immigration executive action is being greeted harshly by leading Spanish language media outlets. Check out the blistering headlines from the past few days in the nation’s largest Spanish...
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Washington, DC – As news reports today confirm, President Obama will officially delay his announcement on executive action until after the 2014 elections. Following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice: “We are bitterly disappointed in the President and we are bitterly disappointed in the...
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President Obama has made many promises on immigration reform — from 2008, when he was a candidate speaking to the National Council of La Raza, to earlier this year, when he gave a Rose Garden speech announcing forthcoming executive action on immigration and deportations. Yet no relief for immigrant...
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Rumors of a potential delay of executive action on immigration reform have been swirling around D.C. in recent days. But an editorial from La Opinion the nation’s largest Spanish-language newspaper today highlights the absurdity of excuses offered to bolster a delay and urges the President to follow-through on his...
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Rumors have swirled this week that President Obama may delay his expected executive announcement on immigration until after the midterms. Such a move would be devastating to families like Pedro’s, who are in danger of losing their father to deportation even though he is the family’s caretaker and is...
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Pedro Ramirez is the Poster Child for Need for Bold, Consistent Executive Action TODAY With recent reports suggesting that the President will delay his executive action announcement on immigration until after the elections, one family in Ohio is paying the price for the White House’s inaction. After receiving a...
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Here’s Francis Wilkinson at Bloomberg weighing in on why President Obama should act now on immigration and deportations, rather than waiting until after the midterms or later. Basically, the electoral map already looks bad for Democrats this fall. Democrats should want Obama to shake things up and possibly improve the playing...
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Why the President and Democrats Should Lean In Now, and Not Wait Until Later Despite the continued reports suggesting that the President may delay big executive action on immigration until after the November elections, the case for executive action from the White House gets stronger every day. According to...
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