Thread: Napolitano:Obama Administration Will Not Block Deportations

Officials Refuse To Budge On Deportation Of Students, Families:

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477 Officials Refuse To Budge On Deportation Of Students, Families:

First Posted: 04/ 1/11 03:19 PM ET

Updated: 04/ 1/11 03:56 PM ET

WASHINGTON -- Despite appeals from immigration reform advocates and some Congressional Democrats, the Obama administration will not block deportations of young people who grew up in the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Friday.

After the Senate voted down the DREAM Act, a bill that would allow legal status for some undocumented young people, immigrant rights groups have pushed for the Obama administration to use its executive authority to stop deporting those who would have benefited from the law.

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and immigration reform groups announced yesterday a plan for a nationwide campaign to end deportation of DREAMers, as they have been coined, and of parents or spouses of American citizens. Current immigration law offers few options to those who want to stay in the United States to be with their families or because they have lived here since childhood. To receive legal status, those who entered the country illegally must return to their native country for 10 years to wait for a visa -- sometimes even longer -- separating them from family.

At an event sponsored by progressive think tank NDN, Napolitano said she was sympathetic to students who would have been eligible for the DREAM Act, but could not exempt them from deportation.

"I am not going to stand here and say that there are whole categories that we will, by executive fiat, exempt from the current immigration system, as sympathetic as we feel towards them," she said. "But I will say that group...are not the priority."

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton echoed her statements, saying the administration cannot block deportations for certain groups. Still, with more than 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, Morton admitted his agency uses discretion "every day" to select how to police immigration. ICE can deport about 400,000 people per year with its current resources, Morton said.

"There are a lot of efforts underway to have good, sensible government in the absence of immigration reform, while stating at the same time that it is necessary," Morton said. "Everyone recognizes that we need a different system than we have now."

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""There are a lot of efforts underway to have good, sensible government in the absence of immigration reform, while stating at the same time that it is necessary," Morton said. "Everyone recognizes that we need a different system than we have now."


Yes we do , with much greater enforcement and border security

Despite appeals from immigration reform advocates and some Congressional Democrats, the Obama administration will not block deportations of young people who grew up in the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Friday.

Crack down is on the way for "young people who grew up in the United States and their families."

Related: with video of Gutierass crying about it!
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-233198.html

Originally Posted by Justthefacts

""There are a lot of efforts underway to have good, sensible government in the absence of immigration reform, while stating at the same time that it is necessary," Morton said. "Everyone recognizes that we need a different system than we have now."


Yes we do , with much greater enforcement and border security

Agree!!

LOL! JANET sure doesnt make sense, but if ramping up the roundup is what shes doing, fantastic!

Originally Posted by stevetheroofer

Related: with video of Gutierass crying about it!
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-233198.html

Sorry about the tears...The United States is finally waking up and seeing the light!!!

The goods news in South Florida is that they are deporting alot of people. In Miami Dade the one jail is being remodelled and due to that inmates are all going to the Dade County Jail. ICE checks out immigration status in the jail and all illegals are being deported after release. They have also stepped up picking illegals up in various areas of the County. Yesterday they were picking up illegals in the City of Miami Gardens. I have also noticed more ICE and Border Patrol vehicles and vans they put them in around. Months ago I might have come across one a day at most and not even on a daily basis but now I am seeing 3 or more daily.

Here in my town also, the streets are almost clean of undocumented aliens during the day time but, I hear they are still sneaking out and working and I see many at Wal-Mart often.

Originally Posted by Pisces_2010

Here in my town also, the streets are almost clean of undocumented aliens during the day time but, I hear they are still sneaking out and working and I see many at Wal-Mart often.

Virginia is loaded with illegals,for example in Roanoke and in some cities up through Highway 29 and 15