White House Postpones Plan To Provide Citizenship In Exchange For Military Service

By admin June 3, 2014 07:00

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WASHINGTON — The White House asked the Department of Defense to delay a plan that would allow some immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally as children to obtain a limited path to citizenship by serving the military.

The decision to postpone the narrowly drawn proposal is part of the White House effort to put off any immigration-related executive actions until August in the hope that House Republicans act on legislation to overhaul the immigration system in the next two months.

White House officials have said they don’t want to hurt those chances by taking executive branch actions that would anger congressional Republicans. The Senate has already passed broad immigration legislation.

Read more at http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2014/06/02/white-house-wants-defense-department-to-delay-undocumented-immigrant-plan/