After U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen issued his injunction, FWD.us, which has spent millions trying to secure massive increases in guest-worker visas in a comprehensive amnesty bill that would lower the wages of American workers, vowed that it won’t give up fighting for Obama’s executive amnesty. Murguia declared that there would be an increase in activism among Latinos, who she said will vote for those who stood against “our community” in the executive amnesty debate.
The head of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s pro-amnesty FWD.us lobbying group (Todd Schulte) and the president of La Raza (Janet Murguia) were among those who met with President Barack Obama and other amnesty advocates at the White House on Wednesday.
Obama met with DREAMers and some of the most prominent leaders of left-wing and pro-amnesty organizations in a closed-door meeting to brief them on what the administration plans to regarding its executive amnesty program after a federal judge issued an injunction against Obama’s executive amnesty last week.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) on Wednesday revealed that the White House is deciding whether it has the legal authority to start implementing Obama’s executive amnesty in the 24 states that did not join the lawsuit against it. Obama, according to the White House, “highlighted that despite the Texas district court’s ruling, the Administration will continue to make progress on many components of the executive actions and is confident we will ultimately be able to implement the deferred action policies.”
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