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President Obama unveiled plans tonight for the most sweeping executive action on immigration in decades, easing the threat of deportation for the parents of millions of America's K-12 schoolchildren.
By offering temporary legal status to an estimated 5 million undocumented immigrants, along with an indefinite reprieve from deportation, Obama's action will ease longstanding concerns among educators about separating school-aged children from their parents and guardians.
The order will offer deportation reprieves and working papers to undocumented parents of children who are either U.S. citizens or have legal residency here and who have lived in the United States for at least five years. Obama's order grants similar status to undocumented residents who were brought to the United States as children, by expanding eligibility for the existing "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals" program, but would not extend any such benefits to the wave of unaccompanied minors—most from Central America—who surged across the U.S.-Mexico border over the past year.
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