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Cases. >> the fact of the matter is if that wouldnt have happened, he would have been deported to honduras last friday. >> reporter: while the vazquez family got help millions of other immigrant mothers, fathers, husbands wives, face an uncertain future. they would have been left alone under president obamas executive action program which provides a shield from deportation and temporary work permits in the u.s. but the program has been delayed for months thanks to a lawsuit brought by texas and ...

To find out that im fighting another war with my mother, trying to keep her here. so i just want to ask you, mr. president, if there has to be some kind of gray area for a situation like this, because i put in a lot of time and i love this country. and i just feel like if it wasnt for her signing those papers, i wouldnt ever have been able to join this great american army. so i want to ask you if theres any way that situation could be handled a little better. >> first of all, let me just say tha...

Ideals of american and fought for those ideals, and fought in wars to defend our country, and built companies that employed people, and helped to build the railroads and highways, and all the things that we take for granted in this country. those were built by immigrants. thats who we are. the first were native americans. so we have to recognize that. and im confident that your mother qualifies under the executive action program that ive put forward. right now, the judge has blocked us initiatin...

So i just want to ask you, mr. president, if there has to be some kind of gray area for a situation like this, because i put in a lot of time and i love this country. and i just feel like if it wasnt for her signing those papers, i wouldnt ever have been able to join this great american army. so i want to ask you if theres any way that situation could be handled a little better. >> first of all, let me just say thank you, eric, for your incredible service to our country. im confident that your m...

Ideals of american and fought for those ideals, and fought in wars to defend our country, and built companies that employed people, and helped to build the railroads and highways, and all the things that we take for granted in this country. those were built by immigrants. were all immigrants. thats who we are. unless youre one of the first americans, the native americans. so we have to recognize that. and im confident that your mother qualifies under the executive action program that ive put for...

Im a wounded warrior. i was medically discharged from the military in 2011. and i come back home and only to find out that im fighting another war with my mother trying to keep her here. so i just want to ask you, mr. president, if there has to be some kind of gray area for a situation like this because i put in a lot of time and i love this country. and i just feel like if it wasnt for her signing those papers i wouldnt ever have been able to join this great american army. so i want to ask you ...

Generation after generation of immigrants who em place the ideals of american and fought for those ideals, and fought in wars to defend our country, and built companies that employed people, and helped to build the railroads and highways, and all the things that we take for granted in this country. those were built by immigrants. thats who we are. the first were native americans. so we have to recognize that. and im confident that your mother qualifies under the executive action program that ive...

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