President Biden grants new protections to half a million immigrants
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🗓️ 19 June 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
At a ceremony marking the 12th anniversary of the DACA program, President Biden announced an executive action that is estimated to shield upwards of half a million immigrants from deportation. As Christians, how should we respond? And how closely does the truth of what the executive action might accomplish mirror the perception that accompanies it?
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| 0:00.0 | Good day. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Wednesday, June the 19th, 2024. I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Ryan Denison. |
| 0:14.2 | Note, in yesterday's daily article, Dr. Jim Denison discussed the public moral failings of pastors Robert Morris and Tony Evans. |
| 0:22.6 | Later that afternoon, news broke that Robert Morris resigned from Gateway Church |
| 0:27.2 | as more details continue to emerge about the nature and extent of his abuse. |
| 0:32.5 | For more on this story and how to respond, please see yesterday's daily article. |
| 0:37.3 | At a ceremony marking the |
| 0:39.2 | 12th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, DACA program, President Biden announced |
| 0:46.4 | an executive action, which is different from an executive order, estimated to shield upwards |
| 0:51.8 | of a half a million immigrants from deportation. Given the proximity |
| 0:56.0 | to the executive order that essentially closed the border between official ports of entry two weeks ago, |
| 1:02.0 | many are curious to see what comes next as the president seeks to change both his policies and his image regarding immigration. |
| 1:10.0 | But before we look at the bigger picture, let's take a minute |
| 1:12.7 | to discuss what the latest executive action will do. The new policy is limited to undocumented |
| 1:18.7 | immigrants who, prior to Tuesday, were married to legal citizens of the United States, had been in |
| 1:25.1 | the country for at least 10 years and do not have a criminal |
| 1:29.1 | record. The White House estimates that roughly 500,000 people would meet those standards |
| 1:34.6 | and applications are expected to open later this summer. If approved, they will have three |
| 1:40.1 | years to apply for permanent U.S. residency and a three-year work permit. |
| 1:45.6 | Current U.S. policy typically requires an undocumented person who marries an American citizen |
| 1:51.5 | to leave the country before applying for legal residency, also known as a green card. |
| 1:57.1 | Consequently, many people choose to remain in the country illegally rather than leave their families to go through the proper channels to become legal. |
| 2:04.6 | In addition to changing the process of gaining a green card for some spouses of U.S. citizens, |
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