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Obama eases deportation laws

President Barack Obama eased enforcement of immigration laws June 15, offering a chance for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to stay in the country and work. Immediately embraced by Hispanics, the extraordinary step touched off an election-year confrontation with congressional Republicans.

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Obama eases deportation laws

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  1. U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about immigration from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington June 15, 2012. President Obama said on Friday his administration's decision to stop deporting some illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children was a "just" move that was not a permanent fix to the country's immigration problem. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

  2. Daily Caller reporter Neal Monro interrupts U.S. President Barack Obama as Obama speaks about immigration in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington June 15, 2012. President Obama said on Friday his administration's decision to stop deporting some illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children was a "just" move that was not a permanent fix to the country's immigration problem. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

  3. Undocumented UCLA students attend a graduation ceremony for \"Dreamers\" or Dream Act students at a church near the campus in Los Angeles, California June 15, 2012. \rUndocumented youths who came to the United States as children reacted with joy to an Obama administration rule change on Friday that could spare them deportation, although opponents slammed it as amnesty.\r REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY IMMIGRATION EDUCATION)

  4. President Barack Obama responds as he is interrupted while announcing that his administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives, Friday, June 15, 2012, during a statement in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

  5. Daily Caller reporter Neal Monro (L) is questioned as he departs the White House after interrupting U.S. President Barack Obama as he was speaking about immigration in Washington June 15, 2012. The Obama administration announced on Friday it would relax enforcement of deportation rules for young people brought to the United States without legal status, a shift in immigration policy that could be designed to appeal to Hispanics in an election year. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

  6. Leslie Osegueda, a\"Right to Dream\" supporter blocks the street outside the federal Metropolitan Detention Center Friday June 15, 2012, in Los Angeles to celebrate the Obama administrations decision to stop deporting younger illegal immigrants. Obama says his plan to stop deporting younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children will make the system \"more fair, more efficient and more just.\" (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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