The year 2013 was a year of hope for 11 million undocumented in the United States. The Senate approved an immigration reform with a way to citizenship. What the Senate approved contains a very long path to legalization, with very tough conditions to reach the hope of a green card. To please the extremist anti-immigrants as the Tea Party of the Senate, they approve projects that cost millions of dollars to militarize the southern borders and according to the politicians in Washington it will be a “secure border.”
The immigration reform of the Senate arrived at the House of Representatives where the majority are Republicans, and the extremists prevented a vote. The Republican leaders say they will discuss reform “one piece at a time.” In the Judiciary Committee they only approved repressive measures such as requiring police to pull over undocumented and hand them over to ICE or the border patrol to be deported.
To attack and defend the undocumented produces votes for the Democrats and Republicans, and it will continue in 2014.
When the Democrats dominated both the Senate and the House of Representatives, Obama DID NOT FULFILL his promise in the campaign that in his first year as president he would approve an immigration reform. Obama repetitively claims that he supports immigration reform, but actions speak lauder than a million words. The Obama administration DEPORTED OVER TWO MILLION.
Many families have been separated. U.S. citizen children suffer because their father or mother has been deported. The anti-immigrants want to deport every undocumented. The deportations have to stop.
They talk of those who know the law. Obama has the power to stop the deportations, for example, like the Deferred Action program for the Dreamers. This is the moment Obama needs to show and support the fair fight to legalize the undocumented.
Obama can stop the deportations giving Deferred Action to the undocumented without serious criminal records until he approves an immigration reform bill.
In 2014 the fight for immigration reform continues, Obama must stop the deportations.
