6.2 Million Left out: Who's Affected by Obama's Executive Action on Immigration
The president's plan helps more than half of undocumented Mexicans living in the U.S., it leaves out bigger portions of immigrants from South America and the Caribbean.
In November 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama announced new executive action to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation, affecting an estimated 5 million people. The program will expand deferred action for immigrants brought to the United States as children, and will benefit undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents.
But there's an important challenge. As the new policy is set to go into effect, some Republican congressmen are trying to defund the new policy within the Department of Homeland Security budget. Plus, on February 16, a federal judge in Texas ordered a temporary halt to the new immigration policy. As this debate continues and as the government implements the new policy, it's important
