By: Ashmar Mandou

Last weekend, several community groups and leaders, including Senator Dick Durbin convened at Benito Juarez High School, 1450-1510 W. Cermak Rd., to celebrate President Obama’s announcement of executive action on immigration last Thursday. In Obama’s speech, he mentioned a deferred action program that will help undocumented immigrants with US citizen or legal immigrant children to apply for a three-year protection from deportation and work permits. The announcement also included an expansion of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.