Sen. Dick Durbin: Obama’s Immigration Actions Do Not Go Far Enough
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Friday, November 21, 2014
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Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) (L) listens as Senate Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) speaks about the need for immigration reform during a press conference following a meeting with Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson Dirksen Federal Building on June 13, 2014 in Chicago, Illinois. In addition to meeting with local politicians Johnson also toured an immigrant detention facility and met with community leaders and immigration activists during his visit to Chicaog. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
President Obama’s executive action to shield 5 million immigrants from deportation is a good start, according to the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin of Illinois.
Durbin told Here & Now’s Robin Young that he wants to see a greater overhaul in the near future and that he urged the president to go further.
President Obama’s executive actions would not cover undocumented farm workers or the parents of young immigrants protected under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a memorandum authored by President Obama in 2012 after a failed attempt to pass the DREAM Act.
Senator Durbin would have liked to have the seen the parents of the ‘Dreamers’ protected under the president’s new plan, as well as “people who come and labor—backbreaking labor—in the fields producing the crops for America because “they need a chance.”
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- Dick Durbin, Democratic U.S. Senator for Illinois. He tweets .
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