During an online video chat on Wednesday, White House Domestic Policy Advisor Cecilia Munoz said that the Obama Administration will renew deferred action for illegal aliens who arrived in the United States as children when they expire after the initial two year period. President's Obama's executive amnesty program for young illegal aliens has given work permits and legal status to 567,563 illegal aliens between the ages of 15 and 31.
In honor of Veterans Day earlier this week, Walmart CEO, Bill Simon, announced that his company would help put veterans returning from the Middle East back to work. However, Walmart has pushed all year for passage of a comprehensive amnesty bill that would double annual legal immigration numbers and grant amnesty with work permits to more than 11 million illegal aliens.
This is a remarkable change of opinion. Sen. Marco Rubio, one of the architects and main sponsors of the Senate's "Gang of Eight" amnesty legislation that was passed in the summer. A spokesmen for Sen. Rubio said that the senator is against conferencing House bills with the Senate amnesty.
A delegation of members of the Oireachtas Éireann (the Irish national parliament) has visited Capitol Hill to lobby on behalf of comprensive immigration reform.
In addition to bankrolling the conservative lobbying "fly-in," tech giants such as Google are pushing for amnesty in other ways.
In a marked change of strategy, illegal aliens and their supporters have decided to shun peaceful tactics in their struggle to gain amnesty for illegal aliens. Instead, they intend to take more radical actions to force their own arrest.
ICE National Council president Chris Crane has told President Barack Obama that he has no right to push for comprehensive immigration reform.
Rep. Raul Labrador, an original member of the House version of the "Gang of Eight," has stated that the House should not risk passing any immigration legislation because the Senate will conference it with their amnesty legislation:
A "fly-in" backed by Michael Bloomberg and Mark Zuckerberg will be bringing pro-amnesty conservatives to D.C. to lobby Congress.
A new study by the Center for Immigration Studies shows that 57.5 million working-age Americans are either unemployed or out of the labor market. This figure is almost identical (57 million) to the number of people the Senate's "Gang of Eight" amnesty legislation would bring in. Steve Camarota, the author of the study, said: