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Pakistan Chronicle
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama on Sunday of political motivation in offering work permits to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children, but declined to say he...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
After the two leaders met one-on-one before the start of the G-20 summit in Los Cabos, President Felipe Calderon thanked Obama for what he called an "unprecedented" move in halting the deportations. "We believe this is very just," Calderon said,...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
In Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Nevada and Virginia, 49 percent of Latino voters said the policy made them more enthusiastic about Obama, compared to 14 percent who were less enthusiastic, according to a Latino Decisions-America's Voice poll conducted...
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CNSNews.com
| 1 year ago
Appearing on CBS's "Face the Nation" Sunday, Republican Mitt Romney suggested that President Obama acted hastily in announcing a "stop-gap" immigration policy because he wanted to preempt a Republican proposal that's in the works. "First of all, we...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney has accused Barack Obama of playing politics with the immigration system, but refused to say if he would scrap the president's order to stop the deportation of young illegal migrants. The Republican presidential challenger claimed...
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NY Daily News
| 1 year ago
There was Mitt Romney on Sunday with Bob Schieffer, in the middle of his bus tour through Pennsylvania, Romney presenting himself as honestly as he could, which means as the rich, affable, last stiff standing on the Republican side...There used to be...
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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
June 17, 2012 Last Friday, the Obama administration announced it would stop prosecuting and deporting certain undocumented immigrantsthe so-called dreamerswho were brought to the country illegally by their parents as children, but who have gone on to...
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Star Tribune
| 1 year ago
If you're paying attention to the presidential campaign, get ready for the politics of immigration. President Obama set the stage on Friday by announcing that he would unilaterally stop enforcing deportations against many illegal immigrants who came...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
Ohio Mitt Romney in an interview aired Sunday repeatedly refused to say that he would overturn President Barack Obama's new policy allowing some young illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. He claimed Obama's decision was political, while...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney called President Obama's move to allow the children of illegal immigrants to remain in the United States a political stopgap. Romney Sunday dismissed the proposal as a campaign Hail Mary aimed at improving his chances for re-election, and...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
A new Obama administration initiative that could allow thousands of young immigrants to avoid deportation and find work is fully within the president's legal powers, a top White House aide said Sunday. Act, that would offer citizenship to...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney and CBS anchor Bob Schieffer during a taping of Face the Nation in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Photograph: Getty Images Mitt Romney has accused Barack Obama of playing politics with immigration, but refused to say whether he would repeal an...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney faulted President Obama on Sunday for bypassing Congress to shield about 800,000 young illegal immigrants from being deported, but he stopped short of saying he opposed the move. During the Republican primaries,...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
Asked about whether he would repeal the new policy on CBS's Face the Nation, Romney vowed to seek long-term immigration reform, but avoided a clear stance on Obama's new deportation policies. Well, it would be overtaken by events if you will, by...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Making his first extensive comments about immigration policy since Obama's announcement Friday, the presumptive Republican nominee said that if he were elected president he would seek a permanent long-term solution regarding the citizenship status of...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
FoxNews.com Mitt Romney declined to say whether, if elected president, he would nix the Obama administration's controversial new order allowing potentially hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children to avoid...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Congress has refused," said senior adviser David Plouffe on ABC's This Week. "We still need a permanent fix," he added. Plouffe hit the Sunday morning talk shows two days after Obama announced an executive order that would allow work permits for...
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The Tribune
| 1 year ago
Romney was asked three times in the interview if he would overturn Obama's order, but he didn't directly answer the question. Instead, he said would work to pass a law to help those young people who were "brought in by their parents through no fault...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
He's trying to walk a line that's not to sound like he's hostile to Latinos . . . Santorum said of Romney in an interview to air Sunday on CNN's State of the Union. But at the same time you need to hammer the president on this now habitual abuse of...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
Asked by Schieffer if the president made the policy shift for "for politics," Romney responded: "That's certainly a big part of the equation." On Friday, the Obama administration announced it would stop deporting many illegal immigrants who came to...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
So long as the economy struggles and joblessness stays persistently high, another four years will remain an iffy proposition for the Democratic incumbent. But unlike distractions that have dominated the presidential campaign in recent weeks...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
Speaking in Weatherly, Pa., the latest stop in his six-state Midwestern battleground tour, Romney appeared to misspeak, accidentally referring to Obama as a former governor. "He upon becoming governor excuse me, president last time," Romney said,...
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Gawker
| 1 year ago
Despite criticisms that he's spent too much time railing against Obama and not enough time outlining his own plans, Mitt Romney said today that he's the candidate that wants to talk about the economy . According to Romney, the economy is the...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 1 year ago
Pa. (AP) Mitt Romney is telling Pennsylvania voters that he and not President Barack Obama is the White House candidate who will give them a fair shot. The Republican challenger is on a six-day bus tour and is looking to keep the focus on jobs and...
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NY1
| 1 year ago
President Obama's likely opponent in November's election is speaking out over Friday's new proposed immigration policy . Mitt Romney said the President's executive order is a short-term fix that can easily be undone by future presidents and says it...
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Indian Express
| 1 year ago
S '+google_ads[i].line2 +' '+google_ads[i].line3 + ' Agencies : Washington, Sat Jun 16 2012, 10:00 hrs In an election-year policy change, President Barack Obama has said the US will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to young talented...
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NY Daily News
| 1 year ago
He is granting them temporary legal status, employment authorization and ordering Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop deporting them. Though the Dreamers won't have an automatic path to U.S. citizenship, the President is giving them a chance...
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The News-Star
| 1 year ago
Filed Under Reactions Friday from northeastern Louisiana's congressional delegation to the Obama administration's decision to stop deporting young illegal immigrants were split down party lines. President Barack Obama suddenly eased enforcement of...
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Chandler Republic
| 1 year ago
The Republic azcentral.com In a stunning election-year gambit, President Barack Obama put Republican rival Mitt Romney on the defensive Friday by relaxing the nation's deportation policy toward hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants.
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Rediff
| 1 year ago
Twenty-five people were killed and 61 others injured in three road mishaps in different parts of Rajasthan, police said on Friday. Nineteen passengers of a private bus were killed and 37 injured when the bus collided with a truck and caught fire near...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
The policy puts political pressure on Obama's Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, by highlighting past GOP opposition to legislation designed to help young immigrants and by forcing Romney to confront his party's sharp divisions over the issue. But...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 1 year ago
The Obama administration announced plans Friday to prevent the deportations of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children. The policy change, embraced by Hispanics and blasted by the...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's rural bus tour hit an unexpected bump on Friday as he scrambled to respond to President Barack Obama's decision to ease deportation rules for young illegal immigrants. On a day when Romney wanted to...
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Baltimore Sun
| 1 year ago
One of the big questions was once I do get a college education, would I be able to work?" Uribe said Friday afternoon. "Now I can move ahead without fearing deportation." She said she spent the day calling other immigrant families, saying, "Now you'...
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The Tribune
| 1 year ago
Presidential slogan wars are heating up Mitt Romney is on an "Every Town Counts" bus tour rolling across six states won in 2008 by Barack Obama and now being courted by Republicans. Romney: Obama denying middle class a 'fair shot' Romney: Obama...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
I believe the status of young people who come here through no fault of their own is an important matter to be considered and should be solved on a long-term basis so they know what their future would be in this country," Romney told reporters after a...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama makes a point to an Internet blogger who rudely interrupted the president while he was announcing that the administration will stop deporting most young illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children, during a...
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10 News
| 1 year ago
Immigrant-rights activists in San Diego and around Southern California hailed Friday's announcement of a federal policy change that will prevent deportation and provide work permits for some undocumented immigrants who came to the country at a young...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 1 year ago
Font Resize Mercury News Editorial President Barack Obama's announcement Friday that his administration would, in the spirit of the Dream Act, stop deporting some young immigrants was sensible, compassionate, fiscally responsible and long overdue...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 1 year ago
President Obama, acting without Congress, took steps to curtail deportations for young illegal immigrants. Republicans say the move could jeopardize prospects for immigration reform. Washington President Obama 's unilateral changes to the nation's...
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Las Vegas Review-Journal / Sun
| 1 year ago
Nevada Hispanics rejoiced Friday as President Barack Obama announced his administration would not deport young illegal immigrants and would let them get U.S. work permits, a move that will energize the Latino vote as the Democrat seeks re-election in...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Alex Wong/Getty Images The Obama administration has taken the biggest step towards granting legal status to undocumented immigrants in America in 25 years by ordering the end to deportations of law-abiding young people who came to the US as children.
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Boston Globe
| 1 year ago
President Obama is bypassing Congress and plans to immediately stop certain deportations and instead grant work permits to younger illegal immigrants, according to a policy shift unveiled by the White House on Friday. The new policy will apply to...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
The United States won't seek to deport people who entered the country illegally as children and meet certain criteria, the Obama administration said Friday. "Our nation's immigration laws must be enforced in a firm and sensible manner," Homeland...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
whose reaction to the Obama administration's immigration order will likely be one of the most closely watched of his party-- issued a carefully worded statement Friday that called for helping young illegal immigrants but criticized the president's...
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Houston Chronicle
| 1 year ago
The Obama administration on Friday announced plans to stop deporting and start offering work permits to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children as long as they have stayed out of trouble with the law. The policy...
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Miami Herald
| 1 year ago
Hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants who were brought into the country as children will be allowed to remain in the United States and apply for work permits under a major immigration policy shift the Obama administration unveiled...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Obama signs order to stop deportation of young undocumented immigrants Move, which will take effect immediately, means thousands of law-abiding immigrants under 30 will have the right to work The initiative goes some way to meeting the desire of...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
The politically charged decision comes as Obama faces a tough reelection fight against Republican Mitt Romney, with Hispanic voters in swing states seen as a key bloc. The executive order could allow as many as 800,000 immigrants who came to the...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Reception of the news might be characterized as "hot and cold": The Drudge Report welcomes the news of the president's latest executive order. The political day has just been eclipsed by a major announcement by the Obama administration : by executive...
