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Posted: 8/15/2012 5:58:22 PM EST
Casa de Maryland volunteer Nathaly Uribe helps applicants with the documents they need to apply this afternoon for the Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, at Casa de Maryland in Langley Park, Md. Hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants scrambled to get papers in order Wednesday as the U.S. started accepting applications to allow them to avoid deportation and get a work permit _ but not a path to citizenship. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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Posted: 8/15/2012 5:58:22 PM EST
Applicant Laura Sanchez, from Mexico, left, fills the Casa de Maryland registration form, with help of her sister Nancy, before they can apply this afternoon for the Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, at Casa de Maryland in Langley Park, Md. Hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants scrambled to get papers in order Wednesday as the U.S. started accepting applications to allow them to avoid deportation and get a work permit _ but not a path to citizenship. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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Posted: 8/15/2012 3:08:27 AM EST
Hundreds of illegal immigrants counting on the DREAM Act passing wait in line to get a passport or any other kind of assistance outside the Mexican Consulate, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012, in Houston. Illegal immigrants are scrambling to get passports and other records in order as the Department of Homeland Security starts accepting applications to allow them to avoid deportation and get a work permit. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Nick de la Torre)
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Posted: 8/15/2012 3:08:27 AM EST
People fill out paperwork inside the Embassy of Honduras Consular Section in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012. The Department of Homeland Security is releasing for the first time details on how illegal immigrants brought to the US as children can apply to avoid deportation and receive a work permit. Alejandro Mayorkas, director of U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Services, said people who qualify for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program can download the application, including forms needed to get a work permit, from the agency's website, beginning Tuesday. They can start submitting applications on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Posted: 8/14/2012 5:18:22 PM EST
Leonardo Irias Navas, head of the Consular Section at the Embassy of Honduras in gestures in his office in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012. The Department of Homeland Security is releasing for the first time details on how illegal immigrants brought to the US as children can apply to avoid deportation and receive a work permit. Alejandro Mayorkas, director of U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Services, said people who qualify for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program can download the application, including forms needed to get a work permit, from the agency's website, beginning Tuesday. They can start submitting applications on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Posted: 8/14/2012 5:18:22 PM EST
Luis Martinez, 20, from Philadelphia, right, walks in the hallway inside the Embassy of Honduras Consulate Section in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012. The Department of Homeland Security is releasing for the first time details on how illegal immigrants brought to the US as children can apply to avoid deportation and receive a work permit. Alejandro Mayorkas, director of U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Services, said people who qualify for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program can download the application, including forms needed to get a work permit, from the agency's website, beginning Tuesday. They can start submitting applications on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Posted: 8/14/2012 5:18:22 PM EST
Mayra Rivera, center, with her children, Aixa Martinez, 18, left, and Aryam Rivera, right, from Philadelphia, wait inside the Embassy of Honduras Consulate Section in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012. The Department of Homeland Security is releasing for the first time details on how illegal immigrants brought to the US as children can apply to avoid deportation and receive a work permit. Alejandro Mayorkas, director of U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Services, said people who qualify for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program can download the application, including forms needed to get a work permit, from the agency's website, beginning Tuesday. They can start submitting applications on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Posted: 8/14/2012 3:53:32 PM EST
FILE - In this June 15, 2012 file photo, Ricky Campos, 23, of Silver Spring, Md., left, Katye Hernandez, 22, both illegal immigrants originally from El Salvador, who live in Silver Spring, Md., hold signs saying "Thank You President Obama," along with Rachelle Robertello, 18, of Fairfax, Va., and others from the group Casa de Maryland, rally outside the White House in Washington, in support of the president's announcement that the U.S. government 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. On Tuesday, Aug. 14, the Department of Immigration (USCIS) made the forms available online for applicants. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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Posted: 8/6/2012 9:54:11 AM EST
Migrants enter a police bus in central Athens, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. Greek police say officers they have begun an operation to arrest and deport illegal migrants from the center of the capital and along the country’s northeastern border. Over 100,000 illegal immigrants cross into Greece annually, most through Turkey. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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Posted: 8/6/2012 9:54:11 AM EST
Police detain a group of migrants in central Athens, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. Greek police say officers have begun an operation to arrest and deport illegal migrants from the center of the capital and along the country’s northeastern border. Over 100,000 illegal immigrants cross into Greece annually, most through Turkey. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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Posted: 8/6/2012 9:54:11 AM EST
Migrants on a police bus in central Athens, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. Greek police say officers have begun an operation to arrest and deport illegal migrants from the center of the capital and along the country’s northeastern border. Over 100,000 illegal immigrants cross into Greece annually, most through Turkey. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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Posted: 8/6/2012 9:54:11 AM EST
Police detain a group of migrants in central Athens, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. Greek police say officers have begun an operation to arrest and deport illegal migrants from the center of the capital and along the country’s northeastern border. More than 100,000 illegal immigrants cross into Greece annually, most through Turkey. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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Posted: 8/2/2012 1:18:28 PM EST
FILE - A Feb. 9, 2007 file photo provided by the Department of Homeland Security shows family detainees walking down the hall at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas. The U.S. is locking up more illegal immigrants than ever before, generating a lucrative business for the nation's largest prison companies. (AP Photo/Department of Homeland Security, Charles Reed, HO, File)
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Posted: 8/2/2012 4:43:20 AM EST
FILE -In a March 13, 2012 file photo, Gary Mead, executive associate director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Enforcement and Removal Operations, stands at a new civil detention facility for low-risk detainees in Karnes City, Texas. The U.S. is locking up more illegal immigrants than ever before, generating a lucrative business for the nation's largest prison companies. Mead said that the government has never studied if privatizing immigrant detention saves money. (AP Photo/Will Weissert, File)
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Posted: 8/2/2012 4:43:20 AM EST
FILE - In an April 22, 2008 file photo, children are shown participating in physical education at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas, during a tour for the media. The U.S. is locking up more illegal immigrants than ever before, generating a lucrative business for the nation's largest prison companies. (AP Photo/Donna McWilliam, Pool, File)
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Posted: 8/2/2012 4:43:20 AM EST
FILE -In a March 13, 2012 file photo, Gary Mead, executive associate director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Enforcement and Removal Operations, speaks to reporters by a soccer field at a new civil detention facility for low-risk detainees in Karnes City, Texas, on Tuesday, March 13, 2012. The U.S. is locking up more illegal immigrants than ever before, generating a lucrative business for the nation's largest prison companies. Mead said that the government has never studied if privatizing immigrant detention saves money. (AP Photo/Will Weissert, File)
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Posted: 8/2/2012 4:43:20 AM EST
FILE- In an April 22, 2008 file photo, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, Marc Moore, left, and Gary Mead, center, along with Corrections Corporation of America Administrator, Evelyn Hernandez, right, talk about a mural of flags as well as the table cloths and flowers added to the cafeteria at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas, during a tour for the media. The U.S. is locking up more illegal immigrants than ever before, generating a lucrative business for the nation's largest prison companies. (AP Photo/Donna McWilliam, Pool, File)
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Posted: 8/2/2012 4:43:20 AM EST
FILE- A Feb. 9, 2007 file photo provided by the Department of Homeland Security shows family detainees walking down the hall at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas. The U.S. is locking up more illegal immigrants than ever before, generating a lucrative business for the nation's largest prison companies. (AP Photo/Department of Homeland Security, Charles Reed, HO, File)
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Posted: 7/24/2012 4:18:22 PM EST
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. The Obama administration's new plan to grant temporary work permits to many young, illegal immigrants who otherwise could be deported may cost more than $585 million and require hiring hundreds of new federal employees to process more than 1 million anticipated requests, according to internal Homeland Security Department plans obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Posted: 7/24/2012 3:38:23 PM EST
Jose Perez, a resident of nearby Berclair, Texas, sprinkles holy water Monday, July 23, 2012, where a truck crashed into a tree on the side of U.S. Highway 59 between Goliad and Beeville, Texas before 7:00 p.m. Sunday evening. The truck, overloaded with nearly two dozen illegal immigrants veered off a highway and crashed into trees, killing at least 14, authorities said. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, John Davenport) RUMBO DE SAN ANTONIO OUT; NO SALES
