Monday, July 9, 2012
Obama in Support of Tomorrow's Professionals
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/06/15/531417_ap.html
Very soon a decision that Obama made approximately 3 weeks ago will began to affect millions of students around the country. This new policy change in question will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger Illegal Immigrants or immigrants whose official citizenship has been in limbo for one reason or another who came to the U.S as children and have since led law abiding lives. In my opinion this is a great step towards helping illegal immigrants in general. Interestingly enough despite the stereotype that is placed on illegal immigrants that they're the cause of many crimes a study by the Public Policy Institute of California revealed immigrants comprised only 17 percent of California’s prison population, even though they accounted for 35 percent of state’s total adult population. In another light Obama may be using this as a platform from which to strengthen his Latino voter base. So what do you think? Did Obama compromise his position on the polls with this move? Will this decision have an affect on the elections in the coming months?
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ReplyDeleteI'd have to say that this most likely hurt obama more than it helped him. As his intentions were good, it's just very hard to do something like this at a time such as this. It might've strengthed his already strong support with latino's. ( being that romney destroyed his own support with this group) I think some things with this could have been changed. The age lowered. With everything that obama does this is going to , and has already , created a serious argument that is splitting our country yet again on another issue.
ReplyDeleteI pretty much agree with you on that front that this issue has split a lot of people with its viewpoints. Although I'm somewhat curious about what you said. Why would you have wanted the age lowered?
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