The Obama administration is strategically planning to reduce the time illegal immigrants are separated from their citizen relatives while they are in the process of applying for legal residency in the United States.Presently, illegal immigrants must leave the country before they can ask the government to waive the three-to-ten year ban on legally coming back to the U.S. But now Obama’s new rule would let children and spouses of citizens ask the government to make a decision on the waiver request before the illegal immigrant returns home to apply for a visa.
Looking ahead to the 2012 elections, the waiver shift is the latest move by Barack Obama to circumvent Congress in order to amass Latino voters who have been harsh critics of the large number of deportations under his watch.
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