San Bernardino, CA—Today, Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-San Bernardino) hosted an Immigration Roundtable Discussion with local stakeholders to highlight prevalent issues that families and institutions face when dealing with the United States’ immigration system, as well as problems faced by the immigrant community in the Inland Empire. Representatives from immigration advocacy organizations, higher education institutions and foreign governments participated in the discussion, which was held at the Mexican Consulate in San Bernardino.

“Immigration reform is a bipartisan issue—Ronald Reagan taught us that,” said Rep. Aguilar. He added, “Fixing our immigration system will allow us to keep families together, bring millions of people into our economy, and will allow us to continue to set the moral standard that every other country in the world looks to for leadership.”

Sylvia Juarez Magana, a Professional Expert at the Dreamers Resource Center at San Bernardino Valley College attended and said, “The congressman’s roundtable really took into consideration the entire landscape of immigration and how students are affected by immigration policy discussions.”

Isabel Sanchez, a Policy Advocate for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) participated in the roundtable and commented, “It was a pleasure attending the immigration roundtable meeting hosted by Congressman Pete Aguilar. I’m glad to have voiced issues that our immigration community faces and to know that we have his support on many issues discussed.”

Rep. Aguilar is a steadfast supporter of Comprehensive Immigration Reform with a pathway to citizenship and has continuously advocated on behalf of the issue. Last year he was a leading voice against House Republicans’ attempts to shut down the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, and he coauthored a letter to then-Speaker John Boehner demanding a vote to keep the agency open. He has also called on DHS to end to the expansion of the Family Detention Program of undocumented women and children. Rep. Aguilar has signed four amicus curiae briefs in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) programs as they are considered by the Supreme Court.

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"No, Our Immigration System Is Not Broken"

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/no-our-immigration-system-is-not-broken/article/2552534

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Here's where Obama admits to his DACA/DAPA Executive Action as "I just took an action to change the law." C-Span Video at 2:30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yuiuhgTtx8

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/01/25/obama-immigration-and-10-words-in-the-constitution-that-mean-mr-president-dont-be-a-king/

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/us/by-using-executive-order-on-immigration-obama-would-reverse-long-held-stance.html?_r=0
For Obama, Executive Order on Immigration Would Be a Turnabout
"President Obama is poised to ignore stark warnings that executive action on immigration would amount to “violating our laws” and would be “very difficult to defend legally.”

Those warnings came not from Republican lawmakers but from Mr. Obama himself."

http://www.factcheck.org/2014/11/obamas-immigration-amnesia/
Obama’s Immigration Amnesia

"..., Obama said he lacked the legal authority to suspend deportation of family members. Now, he says he has just such legal authority."

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http://www.factcheck.org/2014/11/obamas-actions-same-as-past-presidents/
Obama’s Actions ‘Same’ as Past Presidents?

"The actions taken by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush — examples often cited by White House officials — were attempts to address ambiguities in an immigration law that was passed by Congress. Obama’s executive actions are different. They are a response to congressional failure to pass a law, and they affect a far greater number of immigrants currently living in the country illegally."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/president-obamas-unilateral-action-on-immigration-has-no-precedent/2014/12/03/3fd78650-79a3-11e4-9a27-6fdbc612bff8_story.html
President Obama’s unilateral action on immigration has no precedent

"In fact, it is increasingly clear that the sweeping magnitude of Mr. Obama’s order is unprecedented."

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/11/the-weak-argument-defending-executive-amnesty/382906/
Reagan and Bush Offer No Precedent for Obama's Amnesty Order Not only were past executive actions smaller, they didn't work.

"This has become a favorite Democratic and center-left rebuttal to Republicans angry at reports that President Obama may soon grant residency and working papers to as many as 5 million illegal aliens. If Obama acts, he’d rely on precedents set by Republican predecessors. Surely that should disbar today’s Republicans from complaining?

Surely not, and for four reasons."

http://www.infowars.com/obama-lies-about-past-presidents-executive-action-on-immigration/
Obama Lies About Past Presidents’ Executive Action On Immigration
Reagan, Bush did not write their own laws, despite incumbent president's claims

“Reagan and Bush acted in conjunction with Congress and in furtherance of a congressional purpose.” Frum writes. “In 1986, Congress passed a full-blown amnesty, the Simpson-Mazzoli Act, conferring residency rights on some 3 million people.”

"In other words, Ronald Reagan signed a statute that had already been debated and passed by Congress, where as Obama is set to write and enact a law by himself."

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Here's where Obama and his administration are now devising four ways to circumvent DAPA injunction:

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/the-administration/258689-leaked-dhs-memo-shows-obama-might-circumvent-dapa
Leaked DHS memo shows Obama might circumvent DAPA injunction

"The internal memo reveals four options of varying expansiveness, with option 1 providing EADs to “all individuals living in the United States”, including illegal aliens, visa-overstayers, and H-1B guest-workers, while option 4 provides EADs only to those on certain unexpired non-immigrant visas. Giving EADs to any of the covered individuals, however, is in direct violation of Congress’s Immigration & Nationality Act and works to dramatically subvert our carefully wrought visa system. "

Here's the link to this leaked memo:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dwcu66m3vnj9nta/USCIS_Memo_for_EAD_for_I140_June2015.pdf?dl=0
Employment Authorization Documents (EAD) For Certain Beneficiaries Of Approved I-140 Petitions

Here's where Obama and his administration has already defied the injunction by giving previous DACA recipients benefits under his EO (Memo):

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-12/u-s-will-ask-appeals-court-to-lift-texas-immigration-order?cmpid=yhoo

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/did-the-administration-lie-about-obamas-immigration-action/article/2561037/comments

http://www.fairus.org/legislative-updates/legislative-update-3-10-2015#1

Here's where the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed another “Advisory” with U.S.
District Judge Andrew Hanen, confessing that the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) had given three year DACA permits to 2,000 applicants
even after Judge Hanen issued an injunction on February 16 blocking all such approvals.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/264593994/Texas-v-United-States-Advisory-May8

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