The executive action declared by President Barack Obama that proposes to spare thousands and millions of illegal immigrants from deportation seeks to be the biggest federal program rollout since the launch of Obama Care, and many immigration officials hope that it would be a lot smoother than that.

The Department of Homeland Security Secretary stated that everybody in the Department was very focused on that measure and he believed that they were going to get it right.

But the opposition to the plan stems mainly from the Republicans, which would then threaten to do away with the blockage of deportation of as many as 5 million illegal immigrants.

The Department of Homeland Security has rented out a huge office building in Crystal City, Virginia, from where thousands of federal workers and contractors would process applications.

The prediction is that more than a million people would apply in the first 6 months itself. Critics of this measure state that the department would not be in a position to ask people from all over the country to come to Virginia. Instead, they would do most of the work online, and the online interview process is always an invitation to fraud, they claimed.

The cost of the plan was also being criticized by many to be over the top – more than 300 to 400 million dollars is estimated to be spent over the next few years, making it a very costly process in the long run.