Deferred Action on Student Deportation Proceedings Enough?
“The administration is not granting deferred action to all undocumented students,” said Cheryl Little, executive director of Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, the Miami-based immigrant rights group that represents the bulk of prominent foreign undocumented student cases in South Florida. “On the contrary, it is doing so only on a case-by-case basis and usually after lawyers petition them to do so. We have had to fight tooth and nail to get deferred action.’” Advocates of the DREAM Act and members of the Obama administration have said the DREAM Act is needed to help these students, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said it lacks the votes to proceed. Part of the problem is with progressive Democrats, some of whom think the bill should be part of comprehensive immigration reform. The Washington Post op-ed page called today for Congress to pass the act in lieu of comprehensive reform: Such students demonstrate the hope and promise of a better life that America has always held out to
