Executive Action

Obama to Unveil 10-Part Immigration Plan

Fox News report cites White House sources.

President Obama intends to unveil, as early as next Friday, a 10-part plan to overhaul United States immigration policy using executive action, and the program will include suspending deportation for millions, Fox News reports. Quoting a source close to the White House, Fox News reports that the plan contains 10 initiatives that include boosting border security, improving pay for immigration officers, and perhaps most controversially, providing a reprieve to the millions facing deportation. The plan calls for expanding deferred action for undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children—but also for the parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents. The latter move could allow more than 4.5 million immigrant adults with U.S.-born children to stay, according to estimates. Fox News says Obama was briefed by Homeland Security officials before he left on his Asia-Pacific trip last week. The president has said he will not wait for Congress to act on immigration reform, but will take “whatever lawful actions” are possible “before the end of the year.”