Homeland Security: Illegal Immigrants

Obama Administration Dept: WASHINGTON - Just three weeks after the Obama administration started accepting applications from young illegal immigrants seeking to avoid deportation and get a work permit, the government already has approved some of the roughly 72,000 applications the government has received, according to Winnipeg Free Press. The first wave of approvals comes months ahead of Homeland Security's own internal estimates of how long the application process for the administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program could take and less than 60 days before the Nov. 6 elections. According to an internal Homeland Security document obtained by The Associated Press, the department's Citizenship and Immigration Services had estimated that each application could take several months to be completed and fILE - In this June 15, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama talks about granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Just three weeks after the Obama administration started accepting applications from young illegal immigrants seeking to avoid deportation and get a work permit, the government already has approved some of the roughly 72,000 applications the government has received. AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File The Homeland Security Department said Tuesday that a small group of applications has been approved and those immigrants are being notified this week about the decision. The department did not say how many applications had been approved. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.