Inside the lawless immigration policy

NY Times:

White House Tested Limits Before Acting on Immigration

Months before President Obama took executive action to reshape the nation’s immigration system, a small group huddled for hours each day under orders to use “our legal authorities to the fullest extent” on a new policy, a senior official said.

It was a conspiracy to avoid the law.  The so called new policy appears to be more a formal recognition of the administration's existing policy of not enforcing the immigration law unless they absolutely had to.  Other than openly talking about the policy little else has changed.  This so called new policy may let some of these people "come out of the shadows" but in doing so they make it easier to document their illegal status when a new administration comes in and starts enforcing the law.  I suspect some will be smart enough to realize the risk and will stay in their current situation.