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'This is Not Amnesty': Pres. Obama Defends New Immigration Policy in White House Speech
Friday, June 15, 2012    
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President Barack Obama says his plan to stop deporting younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children will make the system 'more fair, more efficient and more just.'

() -- Just hours after his administration announced a major shift in U.S. immigration policy, President Obama made his case to the American people, calling his new plan “the right thing to do” in a speech broadcast from the White House.

“This morning Secretary Napolitano announced new actions that my administration will take to mend our nations immigration policy;  to make it more fair, more efficient and more just, specifically for young people sometimes called dreamers,” Obama said.

The new guidelines, which were not approved by Congress, will reportedly prevent younger illegal immigrants from being deported if they meet a specified set of guidelines laid out by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

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