marklaw.Immigrant Nation: Something that Affects Us All

marklaw.Immigrant Nation: Something that Affects Us All: First, deferred action, the program that allows people to stay who came as children is a temporary measure only.  It just procures a work permit for two years, with the chance of an extension. More importantly, because the program came about by executive decree, so to speak, rather than via a law passed by Congress, it can easily be terminated by a president who is not so friendly to immigration as is Mr. O.