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President Barack Obama Dept: Embraced by Hispanics, his action touched off an election-year confrontation with many Republicans, according to CBC. Obama said the change would become effective immediately to "lift the shadow of deportation from these young people." U.S. President Barack Obama responds after being interrupted while announcing that his administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives. Susan Walsh/Associated Press U.S. President Barack Obama suddenly eased enforcement of his nation's immigration laws Friday, an extraordinary step offering a chance for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to stay in the country and work. Mitt Romney, Obama's Republican election foe, criticized the step but did not say he would try to overturn it if elected. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.