Thread: Deportation Halted for Some Students as Lawmakers Seek New

After the defeat of the Dream Act many Dreamers decided to leave. According to their own reports they are doing very well and in fact find their fears about leaving our country were unfounded .

Since they do have their degrees they are doing very well in the countries they chose to move to .

If our corrupt Gov. would leave them alone and stop putting out carrots they would all get on with their lives either in their countries of birth or somewhere else.

The only solution for this problem is new leadership folks.

[quote]ICE agents made no promises to Ms. Zanella’s family. Her father, José Victor Zanella, said: “We are ready to trust in the system.â€

Obama administration declines to enforce immigration laws
April 28, 2011

By Jan C. Ting

According to an article in the New York Times on Wednesday (article above), the Obama administration is giving in to demands from Democratic lawmakers and Latino and immigrant groups to slow the deportations of illegal aliens who have not been convicted of crimes. The new policy is described by the Times as an "about-face" by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau (ICE) of the Department of Homeland Security charged with enforcing U.S. immigration laws within U.S. borders.

ICE is now offering to provide illegal aliens facing deportation, but who do not have criminal records, with "provisional authorization for them to remain here and work legally." But advocates for illegal aliens complain that the new policy is being applied unevenly across the U.S., and that "rank and file within ICE" need to be reminded of administration policy "discouraging going after cases that are not within its priorities." Evidently some ICE officers are still trying to enforce the nation's immigration laws.

The Obama administration is taking this action despite Congressional rejection of its call for an amnesty for illegal aliens, which it calls "comprehensive immigration reform." Congress has also blocked the attempt to enact a piecemeal amnesty starting with the so-called DREAM Act for illegal aliens who arrived as children. Because of Congressional opposition, such so-called "immigration reform" legislation has no chance of passage in either house of the current Congress.

What Congress has enacted are immigration laws designed to limit legal immigration to about 1 million legal immigrants every year. Those laws give us the most generous legal immigration system in the world, admitting more legal immigrants to permanent residence with a clear path to full citizenship, than all the rest of the nations of the world combined. And we get to pick and choose the immigrants we want, mainly those with family connections here, or those having job skills needed here.

Enforcing those immigration laws is both difficult and expensive. But it becomes impossible if the executive branch refuses to enforce them. Non-enforcement lowers the costs to illegal aliens of violating U.S. immigration laws, and increases the benefits to the extent that it allows illegal aliens to remain and work in the U.S. That encourages even more illegal aliens to violate U.S. immigration laws.

Non-enforcement of U.S. immigration laws imposes enormous costs on state and local governments for education, health care, and law enforcement. And non-enforcement results in anger and hostility towards the federal government and initiatives by states to themselves enforce U.S. immigration law, like Arizona's controversial anti-immigration statute S.B. 1070.

At a time when millions of Americans are looking for work, when funding for schools and colleges is being cut, when the U.S. is trying to reduce its dependence on imported oil and on the burning of fossil fuels generally, does it make sense to stop enforcing U.S. immigration laws, encouraging even more illegal immigration?

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The Obama administration is taking this action despite Congressional rejection of its call for an amnesty for illegal aliens, which it calls "comprehensive immigration reform." Congress has also blocked the attempt to enact a piecemeal amnesty starting with the so-called DREAM Act for illegal aliens who arrived as children. Because of Congressional opposition, such so-called "immigration reform" legislation has no chance of passage in either house of the current Congress.

How can any President lead a nation when he or she disregards law enforcement and block Country laws, to benefit persons residing in a Country unlawfully?

This is a very serious matter people and Americans must speak with President Obama and express their dislikes of his law rules. Also advise our Country lawmakers they must take actions to cease such unlawful activity. Every citizen in this Country can be affected by law blocking against undocumented aliens in many different ways.

Related news:

DREAM Students Avoiding Deportation From ICE

By: David Dayen

Wednesday April 27, 2011 10:00 am

This story from the NYT suggests that the White House responded favorably to a request from Senate Democrats to stop the deportations of DREAM-eligible students and focus ICE resources on other undocumented immigrants.

Dick Durbin and Harry Reid basically requested an end to the deportations of this group of immigrants on April 13. Homeland Security’s consistent position has been to prioritize convicted criminals as the focus of their deportation efforts.

Stopping the deportations won’t be enough, of course. DREAMers still can’t legally get a job without proper documentation or participate in numerous aspects of American life, despite being American citizens in everything but name. We’re talking about kids who know basically no other home other than the United States, who were brought here as children without much of a say in the matter. They want to contribute to this country and shouldn’t be punished for the actions of their parents.

But this is a better outcome than sending these students back to a country they don’t know. I would add that this is largely anecdotal, with just two high-profile cases mentioned, including one where the student had Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) as a backer. It could be that the very fact of the New York Times’ inquiries backed ICE off. We know that deportations overall have spiked under the Obama Administration, and not all of those deported are convicted criminals. So I’d rather see raw data. But tentatively speaking, this is decent news.

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