Mayors push Obama for faster immigrant amnesty approvals
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Thursday, December 29, 2016
Illegal immigrants should get faster approvals of their temporary amnesty applications and the Obama administration in its final days should use its powers to grant even more stays of deportation for illegal immigrants from struggling countries, the mayors of the nation’s biggest cities said in a letter Thursday to President Obama.
The mayors added their voices to those of immigrant rights activists across the country, who in recent weeks have pleaded with Mr. Obama to do all he can to help illegal immigrants before turning the reins over to President-elect Donald Trump, who’s expected to take a much harder line.
Activists have asked Mr. Obama to pardon illegal immigrants, particularly the young adult illegal immigrants known as Dreamers, but the White House has ruled that out, saying that tool doesn’t fit the situation.
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