Undocumented Immigrants Line Up for Door Opened by Obama

*Immigration activists are in a rush to get as many immigrants in the pipeline as possible before the new congress acts on the President’s executive action. Congressional GOP have vowed to stop the process that President Obama put into action.  The activist’s idea is to create a critical mass before then. VL

By Julia Preston, The New York Times

LOS ANGELES — They pushed strollers, tugged toddlers and streamed into the convention center in the heart of this city on Sunday, thousands of immigrants here illegally and anxious to find out if they could gain protection from deportation under executive actions by President Obama.

The crowd, waiting in a long snaking line to check in, was drawn by an information session organized by advocacy groups offering people initial assessments to see if they meet the requirements to apply to stay in the country and work. The day became a kind of coming-out party for about 5,000 unauthorized immigrants, the largest gathering in the country of people who might qualify for temporary protection since the president’s announcement last month.

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[Photo courtesy of the New York  Times]

 

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