Rubio’s Warning Should Be Obama’s Next Step for Immigration Reform
Neidi Dominguez, a DREAMer activist, recently wrote an op-ed for NBC Latino , saying that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) makes a good point about President Obama being able to act alone if Congress fails to pass commonsense immigration reform.
Dominguez writes:
Ironically, in a quote being spread widely, Rubio said that Obama could issue “an executive order as he did for the DREAM Act kids a year ago, where he basically legalizes 11 million people by the sign of a pen,” and doing so doesn’t require the intolerable compromises we’ve seen in Congress. Rubio goes on to say, “We won’t get any E-Verify. We won’t get any border security. But he’ll legalize them.”
As someone who’s lived with the fear that comes with being undocumented since I came to the U.S. and continues to live with the worry that my mother could be deported at any moment, hearing the option that Rubio laid out for the President actually sounds pretty good. The question isn’t will the President expand [the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] if Congress fails to pass reform. It’s why hasn’t he done it already?
