There's a lot in the Obama agenda that isn't LGBT-specific, but things like comprehensive immigration reform and implementation of the Affordable Care Act affect members of our communities who don't have legal status.
Their 19-point manifesto says that war refugees and the politically persecuted are welcome, but there should be stricter implementation of immigration laws.
Becoming the target of liberal ire is one way to rally the conservative base to your side, particularly after Mr Huckabee's past support for anathema issues like immigration reform and the implementation of federal education standards.
The prime minister will also head a sub-committee on the armed forces covenant, the National Security Council, an implementation taskforce on immigration and another on tackling extremism.
Naomi McAuliffe, Amnesty's Scotland programme director, told the Guardian: "The context is the Brexit momentum behind restricting freedom of movement and the implementation of the Immigration Act 2016, which is about finding, reporting and deporting 'illegal immigrants'.
"This is drawing the national attention to a foreign policy issue and taking it off of domestic issues like immigration reform and health care implementation," said Neera Tanden, the president of the Center for American Progress, a liberal research group.
The fact that remittances increase with the implementation of stricter immigration policies means that, in the midst of increased uncertainty about their migration experience or that of their undocumented family members, legal migrants boost their money outflows so as to offset any reductions in remittance flows stemming from undocumented immigrants' restricted ability to work and save.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold Rogers said the plan was still under discussion, though he hopes to introduce a bill on Friday that seeks to fully meet the Obama administration's DHS funding request while blocking implementation of the immigration order.
Ditto for Obama's "heartfelt" decision to mandate the implementation of a modified immigration reform Dream Act soon thereafter – this after earning scalding criticism from immigration advocates, plus the not-so-veiled threat that he might not be able to count on young people or people of color campaigning door to door for him this time around.
The stringent airport procedures were in place around New Year's Day, at the same time as a scheduled implementation of tight new immigration procedures, combining to produce new headaches for air travelers.
