President Obama takes executive action on immigration.

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President Obama took some common sense steps toward fixing the U.S.'s broken immigration system.

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This past Thursday evening President Obama addressed the nation about executive actions that he has taken to address the broken immigration system in the U.S. While much of what the president spoke to will not directly affect the great majority of our students, he is working on providing more benefits for students studying STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) fields. See the entire speech and transcript on CNN's website

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graduate students, immigration, international, international students, Postdocs
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  • Created By: Emily Dolezal
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Nov 24, 2014 - 12:42pm
  • Last Updated: Oct 7, 2016 - 11:17pm