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Immigration Action Doesn’t Go Far Enough
Workers who
deserve to live
without fear of
deportation
by
D iana A nahi T orres
Inocencio Vernal has
picked broccoli, sweet
potatoes, corn, and celery
in U.S. farms for more
than 25 years. This holiday sea
son, you might end up feasting
on the fruits of his labor.
Yet Vernal, like 53 percent of
farmworkers, is undocumented.
This means that he can’t pick
your vegetables legally, travel
to Mexico to visit his ailing fam
ily members, or even drive a
truck without fear of deporta
tion.
Undocum ented workers
aren’t the only ones who suffer
because of our broken immi
gration system. Thousands of
U.S. citizen children live in fear
of losing their parents due to
immigration enforcement opera
tions.
Their fears are rooted in real
ity. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement deported more of deportation. Applicants were easier for thousands of foreign
than 72,000 parents of U.S.- only eligible if they’d arrived workers.
born children last year. As a here before June 2007 and be
Although I applaud Obama’s
result, over 5,000 U.S. kids fore they turned 16.
executive action, I don’t think it
landed in foster care.
That program, known as De goes far enough.
Diane Guerrero, an actress in ferred Action for Childhood Ar
Farmworkers like Vernal,
the hit series Orange rivals, is still in force.
who have made significant con
Is the New Black,
Obama’s latest executive ac tributions to their communities
experienced this tion simply extended that re for most of their lives, don’t
painful kind of sepa- prieve to the law-abiding par qualify for reprieve unless
ration herself. When ents of U.S. citizens and per they’ve lived in the United States
she was 14, the U.S. manent residents who have lived for five years and have kids
governm ent
de here for at least five years. He who are U.S. citizens or perma
ported Guerrero’s parents, and also widened the criteria for nent residents with green cards.
she wound up living with family deferred action eligibility and
In addition, Obama’s fix is
friends.
made it easier for the spouses temporary and provides no path
“It’s tough,” she told CNN. of lawful residents to get a green to citizenship.
“It’s like we’ve been separated card.
“I don’t have the authority to
for so long, I feel like sometimes
High-tech foreign workers do some really important re
we don’t know each other... And will also benefit from the ex forms,” Obama admitted. “We
there are things about them that ecutive action. Foreign students should be creating new pro
are new that I don’t recognize, who graduate with a Science, grams for farmworkers... add
and it just — it hurts.”
Technology, Engineering and ing visas for the high-tech sec
With Congress stonewalling Mathematics degree will get tor... creating a pathway to citi
on immigration reform, stories more opportunities to work here zenship. But only Congress can
like these inspired President after graduation, and foreign en do that.”
Barack Obama to tackle the bro trepreneurs will find it easier to
This is a nation of immigrants.
ken immigration system on his establish U.S. businesses.
Congress must stop dawdling
own.
All told, these measures will and start addressing the immi
In 2012, Obama took the first grant about 5 million undocu gration crisis.
steps by giving 1.2 million un mented immigrants the right to
Diana Anahi Torres is the
documented teens and young legally work and live in the- New Mexico Fellow at the Insti
adults temporary work permits United States for the next three tute for Policy Studies in Wash
and a reprieve from the threat years. And they will make life ington, D.C.