Details about the much anticipated, bipartisan immigration proposal are starting to emerge even as the “Gang of Eight” senators who are drafting the immigration legislation cancelled their Tuesday press conference in response to the bombing at the Boston Marathon on Monday.
Under the measure, immigrants who were in the United States before Dec. 31, 2011 and were deported for noncriminal reasons could return to the country with a provisional legal status if they a legal spouse or child in the country or if they qualify for the Dream Act ….
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But the “gang” also was clearly listening to Democrats and immigration advocates who have been ardently protesting the family separations that result from President Obama’s deportation policies. Allowing deportees to return to the country would put a salve on the wounds of families whose parents or spouses have already been deported but who would have qualified for legal status if they hadn’t been unlucky enough to get noticed by immigration authorities.
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