Confronted with President Obama’s previous statements that a blanket waiver against deportations “would be difficult to defend legally,” theWhite House tried Tuesday to justify the president’s pending executive action to grant legal status to millions of illegal immigrants.
In a Telemundo interview in September 2013, Mr. Obama said he was proud of protecting “dreamers,” people who came to the U.S. illegally as children, from deportation. But under pressure from activist groups to expand deportation waivers, the president said he could not legally take such action.
