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EXCLUSIVE: President Obama is planning to unveil a 10-part plan for overhauling U.S. immigration policy via executive action -- including suspending deportations for millions -- as early as next Friday, a source close to the White House told Fox News. 

The president's plans were contained in a draft proposal from a U.S. government agency. The source said the plan could be announced as early as Nov. 21, though the date might slip a few days pending final White House approval. 

Obama was briefed at the White House by Homeland Security officials before leaving on his Asia-Pacific trip last week, Fox News has learned. 

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters traveling with Obama in Burma Thursday that the president had not made a final decision on any executive actions concerning immigration and would not announce any until he returned to Washington. 

The draft plan, though, contains 10 initiatives that span everything from boosting border security to improving pay for immigration officers. 

But the most controversial pertain to the millions who could get a deportation reprieve under what is known as "deferred action." 

The plan calls for expanding deferred action for illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children -- but also for the parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents. 

The latter could allow upwards of 4.5 million illegal immigrant adults with U.S.-born children to stay, according to estimates. 

Critics in the Senate say those who receive deferred action, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, receive work authorization in the United States, Social Security numbers and government-issued IDs.

Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) has been the single loudest voice criticizing President Obama for not issuing his promised amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants. But Gutierrez is also making himself the main man on immigration for the media, and some think he may be doing so as a prelude to running for president himself.

Previous to the midterm elections, Gutierrez was pushing as hard as he could to force Obama to announce his amnesty before the November elections. In March, for instance,Gutierrez noted that the "pleas from the community" got through to Obama, that the President heard them, and was sure to issue a mass amnesty earlier this year.

The congressman also tried to clear the way for Obama’s announcement. At one point, in September, Gutierrez warned Democrats squeamish on amnesty to "step aside" and let Obama have his head on amnesty for illegals.

Gutierrez went on like that for months, appearing on every TV show and speaking to every media outlet that would have him, saying that Obama promised him that he would issue that much sought-after amnesty. But, thus far at least, all the congressman's efforts have been for nothing.

For the man who told Newsweek that his "only loyalty is to the immigrant community," Obama's breach of promise is inexcusable.

How the feds are making THOUSANDS fewer requests to deport illegals arrested in the U.S. just as Obama plans to give amnesty to five million immigrants

• Since 2012, requests for ‘detainers’ have plummeted by 9,000 per month
• Detainers are used to extend migrants’ time in prison ahead of deportation
• California and Texas registered drops of 55 per cent and 28 per cent
• Comes as Obama plans an amnesty for up to five million immigrants

Americans who voted in the midterms on Tuesday overwhelming are opposed to President Barack Obama's executive amnesty and do not want foreign workers to take jobs from Americans and legal immigrants who are already here.

An exit poll conducting by Kellyanne Conway's The Polling Company found that three-quarters (74%) of voters believed that "President Obama should work with Congress rather than around Congress on immigration and separately." 

Overall, strong "majorities of men (75%), women (74%), whites (79%), blacks (59%), and Hispanics (54%)," in addition to tri-partisan majorities of "self-identified Republicans (92%), Independents (80%), and Democrats (51%)" did not want Obama to enact an executive amnesty on his own. Only 20% of voters wanted Obama to move forward with his executive amnesty. 

Eighty percent of voters polled on Election Day say new jobs should go to Americans and legal immigrants, not to illegal immigrants, including the potential beneficiaries of President Barack Obama’s planned executive amnesty, says an election-day poll of 806 voters.

“Voters overwhelmingly prefer an immigration system that protects American workers,” says a memo released with the poll by Kellyanne Conway, founder of the polling company.

“Members of Congress should feel confident that voters will support actions using the power of the purse to protect American workers from Obama’s executive amnesty threat,” the memo said.

GOP leaders, including House Speaker John Boehner and incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have already warned Obama against announcing an amnesty or enforcement rollback.

A new "public health fund" created under Obamacare has turned into a political slush fund, financing projects that have little to do with providing affordable health care to Americans, according to a senior House lawmaker, former Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith. 

In a blistering letter to House Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold Rogers, Rep. Smith, a 10-term Texas Republican, wrote that the Prevention and Public Health Fund created under the 2010 healthcare overhaul is being used to finance television ads promoting amnesty programs for illegal aliens.

Smith pointed to a report by CNS News that the Department of Health and Human Services gave a $15 million grant to an organization called the California Endowment, a vocal advocate for Obamacare. Newsbusters (a media watchdog group which, like CNS News, is part of the Media Research Center) reported that one advertisement sponsored by the California Endowment which aired on the Spanish-language television outlet Univision "focuses not on health care, but rather on reminding undocumented [illegal] immigrants to renew their Deferred Action for Child Arrivals (DACA) permits."

The DACA program is an Obama Administration initiative awarding renewable two-year grants of legal status—  including Social Security numbers and work cards —  to illegals who say they arrived in the United States prior to their 16th birthday. The administration says it is using its "prosecutorial" discretion" over when to arrest and deport those illegally in the country. Critics counter that the implementation of DACA is a violation of the Constitution: President Obama could not persuade Congress to enact amnesty into law, so he usurped lawmakers’ powers and acted unilaterally. 

Thousands of family units that recently entered the United States illegally failed to appear before immigration judges between July 18 and October 7 of this year.

Documents from the Executive Office of Immigration Review provided to the House Judiciary Committee this week and exclusively obtained by Breitbart News offer a brief snapshot into the failure of certain undocumented immigrants who've been released into the United States to appear in immigration court. 

According to the EOIR documents, in that two-and-a-half month period from mid-July to early October, immigration judges across the country rendered 3,885 decisions on removal cases dealing with “aliens” in family units. Of those decisions, 94 percent (3,661) were made “in absentia,” or the alien’s failure to appear resulted in an order of removal. 

The document also showed that 9,874 cases were still pending over those months. 

BAY CITY, MI — The national director and co-founder of The Remembrance Project, an advocacy group that draws attention to Americans killed by undocumented immigrants, was in Bay City Monday, looking to share her group's stance on the nation's immigration policy and advocate for victims.

Maria Espinoza, of Houston, Texas, arrived in Michigan on Sunday, Oct. 26, met with staff at Congressman Dan Kildee's office on Monday, Oct. 27, and had hoped to speak during public comment during a Bay City Commission finance and policy meeting Mondayevening. The City Commission met to review City Manager Rick Finn's performance after being on the job for six months, and a majority of the meeting took place in a closed session.

Speaking to media inside Bay City Hall during that meeting, Espinoza brought out two "Stolen Lives Quilts," which include names of people the group's members say were killed by unauthorized immigrants. A caption below one photo on a quilt read, "Tina Davila, 39, Houston, TX. Stabbed in the heart by an illegal alien on 4-16-2008."

"We want our leaders to uphold the current laws and detract from bringing in more illegal aliens," Espinoza said. "We need to remove the magnets, including social benefits and jobs."