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Obama immigration policy reform raises questions
Reaction to White House announcement sharply divided
by Christopher Leone Cronkite News
designated as a day to ditch the car and use alternative forms of transportation — Page 9.
THE PUMP Thursday is
DUMP
officials reacted swiftly, and predictably, to Friday’s announcement that the Department of Homeland Security will exercise “discretion” when deciding whether to deport younger, low- risk undocumented immigrants who were brought to this country as children. The policy, announced by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and quickly backed by President Barack
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Obama, would give such
immigrants the opportunity to apply for a two-year
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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA announces his support Friday for a plan that could remove the threat of deportation for low-risk undocumented aliens who were brought to this country as children.
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deportation deferment and get a two-year work visa. Obama said the policy is “not amnesty … not immunity” but simply the “right thing to do” for young people in those circumstances. “It makes no sense to expel talented young people, who, for all intents and purposes, are Americans,” he said.
(See Questions on Page 2) Buckeye conducts its 1st economic summit
by Rich Ott assistant editor
Buckeye Valley area on March 10, 1888, the first rail car visited the settlement in 1911 and the town was incorporated in 1929. However, it wasn’t until June 14, 2012, that the area held its first Economic Development Summit. It won’t be the last. “We’d like to continue it every year,” Buckeye Mayor Jackie Meck told the View after the almost five-hour event came to a close June 14. “It was everything I hoped for and more.” The summit was held at the $13.5 million, state-of-the-art Palo Verde/Arizona Public Service Energy and Education Center, 600 W. Airport Road in Buckeye.
The first U.S. Post Office opened in the WASHINGTON — Arizona
“No community in the United States has greater potential than Buckeye,” Meck told the crowd, which filled the facility’s 222-seat auditorium. “Our goal is to advance Buckeye to one of the most vibrant communities in the U.S.” Len Becker was brought on board as the
town’s economic development director to help it (See Summit on Page 3)
View photo by Michael Clawson
TOLLESON MAYOR ADOLFO GAMEZ, right, sits next to Litchfield Park Mayor Tom Schoaf, partially obscured, while listening to speakers at an economic development summit June 14 in Buckeye. Speakers at the event included representatives from Westmarc, home builder DMB, Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station and Estrella Mountain Community College.
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