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Doromal: Obama to announce immigration plan this week
Human rights activist and former Rota teacher, Wendy Doromal believes that President Barrack Obama will announce his Executive Action Immigration Plan this week.
“Reports from a variety of news sources say that President Obama will announce his Executive Action Immigration Plan as early as [this] week,” Doromal wrote in her blog Unhard No More.
Quoting Fox News, Doromal said the Executive Action Immigration Plan would be a 10-point plan that will:
-Prioritize deportations for serious criminals;
-End “Secure Communities” and start a new program;
-Boost pay for ICE officers;
-Expand high-tech visas;
-Strengthen border security;
-Expand provisional waivers to spouses and children of legal permanent residents;
-Expand parole allowing undocumented aliens with U.S. citizen children to have parole; and
-Promote the naturalization process by reducing the application fee for the first 10,000 applicants
While U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he would fight Obama tooth and nail if he follows through with his plan, Doromal said numerous other presidents have taken executive action on immigration.
“An estimated 5 million undocumented aliens would be included in the plan. Will it help the legal, long term nonresident in the CNMI, most of whom have been hoping to be granted permanent residency status for decades? Will the undocumented aliens in the CNMI be included? Hopefully, they are not left out of any executive order. If anyone on U.S. soil deserves protection and upgraded status, it is this group,” said Doromal.
Last week, Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (Ind-MP) said he expects President Barrack Obama to issue an executive order on immigration reform in December after the mid-term elections in the U.S. is through.
The Senate already passed a bipartisan bill on comprehensive immigration reform last year, but the House of Representatives has refused to act on it.
