Prospective Americans welcome presidential and congressional action
Click here for the video of the announcement Press Release: For Immediate Release November 19, 2014 For media inquiries, contact: Ricardo Diaz 217-979-0255, diazr@CUimmigrationforum.org Prospective Americans welcome presidential and congressional action On the eve of an announcement by President Obama [Champaign, IL] The president's action today is a necessary intervention in the stalemate over reforming our broken immigration system and, more importantly, it is good news for the hundreds of thousands of families whose lives have been adversely affected by the threat of deportation. In June of 2013, a bipartisan Senate passed S.744 , a comprehensive immigration reform bill, and yet since that time the House leadership has refused to even bring it to a vote, much less offer any serious alternative proposals, so at this point any steps to improve the system - even temporarily - are steps in the right direction. In spite of the best efforts of many g...