By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--November 24, 2014
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This skit got a couple of things right, and a couple of things wrong. For starters, Obama didn't sign an executive order. He is taking executive action, in particular by directing the Department of Homeland Security to expand programs that defer deportation for classes of undocumented immigrants -- parents of U.S. citizens or permanent-resident children, as well as undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children. See a handy flow chart to determine who qualifies. Obama's action on Thursday adds 4 million new eligible immigrants, on top of the 1 million young immigrants who became eligible for deferred deportation under Obama's original 2012 program. The cold open got the basic explanation of what the difference is between a law and executive order right. And SNL also is correct that more Americans, even if they support comprehensive immigration reform, don't believe Obama should do it by fiat.The good news, I guess, is that Saturday Night Live is getting a bit funnier again. The bad but entirely unsurprising news is that the mainstream media is getting even more self-important. Fact-checking a Saturday Night Live sketch? Seriously?
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