Thread: Obama halts some immigration cases

08/18/2011 5:00 PM




By Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff


The Obama administration took one of its boldest steps yet toward addressing illegal immigration today by announcing it would halt potentially thousands of cases in federal immigration court if they do not involve criminals or people with flagrant immigration violations.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said today that the agency will launch a case-by-case review of 300,000 cases pending in immigration courts across the nation to focus on the federal government’s top priority, detaining and deporting criminals and serious violators of immigration law.

Immigrants classified as low-priority cases could receive a stay of deportation and the chance to apply for a work permit.

The move is likely to inflame political tensions nationwide as a campaign issue in 2012, and it has major implications in Massachusetts, which has the second-highest immigration court backlog in the United States. All manner of immigrants in the court pipeline could stand to benefit from the policy shift, from factory workers snatched in the 2007 New Bedford raid, to same-sex couples about to be separated, to youths facing deportation.

“The president has said on numerous occasions that it makes no sense to expend our enforcement resources on low-priority cases,â€

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Once again this bstard is side stepping the law and the American public, all in hopes of being re-elected. We Conservatives better get a viable candidate we can ALL support instead of MORE OBL'ers.

Michele Bachmann is the only one to even come close to addressing illegal immigration and border security. She has to be the one to get behind. WAKE UP PEOPLE, GO TO NUMBERS USA AND CHECK OUT THE CANIDATES GRADES ON IMMIGRATION.

"There are no nada zip zero non-criminal deportations!"

And yes Michelle is the first and only candidate that has even mentioned illegal unknown invaders and the baggage they bring with them!

Obama and the Executive Branch have just nullified our Immigration laws passed by congress This is against our own FEDERAL LAWS PASSED BY OUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS !!!!! What are we going to do about It

Our nation Is BROKE,but we have the money to Intervene In court on the behalf Of ILLEGAL ALIENS ????!@#$%^&&^%$#@!@#$%^!!!!

Originally Posted by topsecret10

Obama and the Executive Branch have just nullified our Immigration laws passed by congress This is against our own FEDERAL LAWS PASSED BY OUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS !!!!! What are we going to do about It

We need to start making phone calls, sending faxes or protesting in the streets if we have too!!! The jack-ass squatting in the White House needs to be removed immediately along with that nappy headed twit!