Obama Administration Announces Plans for Case-by-Case Deportation Reviews

[EFerrari]

The Obama administration has announced plans to conduct case-by-case reviews of all immigrants facing deportation. The move is expected to ease the way for undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children and have already spent years in the country to stay and work legally. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano revealed the new policy in a letter to Senators Dick Durbin and Richard Lugar. In April, the senators sent a letter to Napolitano asking her to stop deportations of immigrant students who could earn legal status under the proposed DREAM Act. The new policy was announced just days after a group of Latino groups held a nationwide day of protest against the administration’s deportation policy. The Obama administration has overseen a record number of deportations in each of the past three years. Under the new policy, administration officials have acknowledged the actual number of immigrants deported is not expected to decrease.
The National Immigration Law Center praised the new policy, but expressed concern over what will happen to immigrants already being detained for low-level offenses and minor traffic violations as a result of the Secure Communities program. Meanwhile, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, slammed the new policy as a form of "backdoor amnesty."

(from DN! headlines today.)

US undertaking case-by-case review on deportation
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL - Associated Press | AP – 17 hrs ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration said Thursday it will allow many illegal immigrants facing deportation to stay in the United States and apply for work permits but will remove convicted criminals and those who might threaten national security or public safety.

That would mean case-by-case reviews of approximately 300,000 illegal immigrants facing possible deportation in federal immigration courts, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in announcing the policy change.

Advocates for an immigration overhaul have said the administration, by placing all illegal immigrants in the same category for deportation, has failed to live up to President Barack Obama's promise to deport only the "worst of the worst."

"From a law enforcement and public safety perspective, DHS enforcement resources must continue to be focused on our highest priorities," Napolitano wrote a group of senators supporting new immigration legislation. "Doing otherwise hinders our public safety mission, clogging immigration court dockets and diverting DHS enforcement resources away from the individuals who pose a threat to public safety."

http://news.yahoo.com/us-undertaking-case-case-review-deportation-180052413.html

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[Kurovski]

2. K&R. (nt)

[scheming daemons]

3. but I thought he was a Republican?

Another progressive move that will get ignored by most.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

6. O had ramped up deportations to such a degree --

there were protests breaking out across the country. :eyes: Someone on O's team got wise politically and told him he better knock it off.

[moksha]

10. Of course, it is campaign season. These deportations, and protests

against them have been ongoing throughout his Administration.

[amborin]

20. the protests have intensified recently...and Latino voters have been calling Obama "worse than Bush"

and promising to sit out 2012...

now we just need progressives to similarly protest....

[moksha]

11. It is a great move, and progressive. And after almost 3 years of

regressive deportation policy, it is about time. Progressive, yes. Political, absolutely.

[Scurrilous]

4. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Hell Hath No Fury]

5. I guess the protests that were breaking out --

woke him up to the fact that pissing off the Hispanic/Latino community and their supporters right before an election is a very stupid think to do.

[EFerrari]

14. It was to the point where the president couldn't speak about immigration

in public without a firestorm erupting all over the net.

I hope this is real and that a lot of people are helped by it. It's good timing because now the Republicans have to choose between pissing off Latinos in swing states by criticizing it or letting it go and hoping their ignorant base doesn't notice it.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

15. I hope so too.

To go from pushing the Dream Act to massive deportations rightfully pissed of a whole lot of people and caused a lot of human damage. Good politics, as you noted, as well.

[EFerrari]

17. I follow a lot of the DreamAct activists on Twitter.

They are outstanding as a group. :hi:

[Liberal_in_LA]

16. yep

[jsamuel]

7. this sounds like a really good thing, props to Obama

Let's keep working on that DREAM Act though.

[slipslidingaway]

8. knr nt

[moksha]

9. Rec. A very good move, great step. I have been badly disapointed from the Obama

Administration on Immigration. This is a positive sign. The cynical side of me notices that is timed with re-election roll out, but I'll take it.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

12. At face value it looks decent.

I could want more, but it's a start and a step in the right direction. If it leads to the work permits for non-criminal illegal immigrants and a way for us to stop breaking up families, I see it as an improvement.

[gordianot]

13. How about inluding Murdoch?

[EFerrari]

18. As a felon, he'd have to be deported, right?

lol

[spanone]

19. k&r...