The Obama Administration's 2014 Immigration Initiative: Looking Back at What the Obama Administration Has Done-- and Ahead to the Trump Administration (CRS Report for Congress)
| Release Date |
Nov. 22, 2016 |
| Report Number |
2014IMM |
| Source Agency |
Congressional Research Service |
Summary:
As President-elect Trump prepares to take office, questions have been raised about what his Administration might mean
for the various immigration-related initiatives that the Obama Administration announced on November 20, 2014. While
the Obama Administration had taken certain actions regarding immigration at earlier dates, as well as subsequently,
November 20, 2014 was the date when President Obama and the heads of several executive branch agencies announced
that the Administration would be taking a number of steps to “fix” what the President had repeatedly described as a
“broken” immigration system in the absence of congressional action on “comprehensive immigration reform.” Table 1
below lists these initiatives.
The implementation of the best-known of these actions—the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA)
program and the expansion of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program—was blocked by the
federal courts. However, many, although not all, of the other actions announced on November 20, 2014, have been
implemented, as Table 1 below illustrates. (The Obama Administration also took other actions as to immigration at
other dates that are not reflected in Table 1. These include the 2012 DACA program, which remains in place.)
