when congress failed to pass the dream act, president obama issued his own executive order to temporarily allow young illegal immigrants to live openly in the united states. tomorrow his plan dubbed deferred action for childhood arrivals takes effect. over 1.5 million people can apply for two-year reprieve from deportation and for work permits positively. and those eligible include undocumented i am grants between the ages of 15 and 30 who arrived in the u.s. before their 16th birthday. they must have lived in the u.s. for five consecutive years, including june 15 of this year, and the program was announced. applicants must be students and high school graduates or honorably discharge members of the military. thank you. we only have a little time. this is a big story in the latino community. what s this mean to people who may know hispanic people and may know teenage people? living in may suspect them out here legally?
system doesn t work and think s the president s plan doesn t work. and there are people like myself that understand in this country we play more money per patient than any other country on the planet and and i think one of the reasons why is because in the system. why again, success is not rewarded, failure is not punished. so republicans have to somehow put together a plan bobby jindal s doing that. but more importantly, with.
digging out of the deficit. president obama laid out his blueprint yesterday to chip away at the nation s mind-bogging debt. not surprisingly the republicans say the plan doesn t work for them. reporter: under fire from critics who claimed that he s failed to lead, president obama laid out his new plan to blood up our red ink. we have to live within our means. we have to reduce our deficit and we have to get back on a path that will allow to pay down our debt. $4 trillion of deficit in four years. with a fail safe clause to force spending cuts if that target isn t hit. for every $3 in spending cuts,