Obama Offers Hope on Immigration Reform, But Emphasis on Enforcement Portends More Criminalization
January 31, 2013
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as posted by the channelDemocracyNow.org - President Obama has kicked off his second-term with a major push for comprehensive immigration reform, backing a bipartisan Senate plan that includes a path to citizenship for some of the estimated 11 million undocumented people living in the United States. But Obama's call for tougher border enforcement and a system for tracking those who overstay visas has sparked concerns he will continue with a pro-criminalization and militarization approach that saw a record number of deportations in his first term. We host a roundtable with three guests: Lorella Praeli, director of Advocacy and Policy at the United We Dream Coalition; Fernando Garcia, the founding director of the Border Network for Human Rights.; and Mae Ngai, professor of history and Asian-American studies at Columbia University.
Watch the Democracy Now! roundtable discussion about President Obama's proposed blueprint for immigration reform at
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