Immigration Debate

Earlier this afternoon president Barack Obama gave a speech and explained his administration's immigration plan in more detail about letting 800,000 illegal immigrants apply for temporary legal status and work visas. While delivering his speech a reporter interrupted him twice trying to provoke an argument in a way but was later silenced by the president by saying "I didn't ask for an argument" and continued with his presentation. Obama's proposal would allow immigrants under the age of 30 who don't have criminal records and who have graduated high school, and have lived in the U.S. for at least five years to apply for visas and work permits but one catch is they must have entered the U.S. when they were a child around the age of 15. In a decisions poll held for registered latino voters, 87% of them support legalizing young immigrants. Opponents of the bill like the Republicans complained that by creating this, will encourage more people to attempt to cross the border illegally.