Several Maryland Democrats on Friday backed President Barack Obama’s decision to allow certain young illegal immigrants to remain in the country, a policy that advocates say will affect as many as 800,000 people nationwide.

“The announcement today recognizes that we should not hold hardworking, innocent children responsible for the actions of their parents,” said Sen. Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat who is up for reelection this year. “We should focus our immigration enforcement on the most dangerous individuals rather than children who mostly have known no other country than the U.S.”

But Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett, a Republican who faces a difficult

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