Thread: Uneven Use of Deportation Policy Leads to Confusion

Uneven Use of Deportation Policy Leads to Confusion


By JULIA PRESTON -- NY TIMES

A new Obama administration policy to avoid deportations of illegal immigrants who are not criminals has been applied very unevenly across the country and has led to vast confusion both in immigrant communities and among agents charged with carrying it out.

Since June, when the policy was unveiled, frustrated lawyers and advocates have seen a steady march of deportations of immigrants with no criminal record and with extensive roots in the United States, who seemed to fit the administration’s profile of those who should be allowed to remain.

But at the same time, in other cases, immigrants on the brink of expulsion saw their deportations halted at the last minute, sometimes after public protests. In some instances, immigration prosecutors acted, with no prodding from advocates, to abandon deportations of immigrants with strong ties to this country whose only violation was their illegal status.

For President Obama, the political stakes in the new policy are high. White House officials have concluded that there is no chance before next year’s presidential election to pass the immigration overhaul that Mr. Obama supports, which would include paths to legal status for illegal immigrants. But immigration authorities have sustained a fast pace of deportations, removing nearly 400,000 foreigners in each of the last three years. With Latino communities taking the brunt of those deportations, Latino voters are increasingly disappointed with Mr. Obama. White House officials hope the new policy will ease some of the pressure on Latinos, by steering enforcement toward gang members and convicts and away from students, soldiers and families of American citizens.

In a June 17 memorandum, John Morton, the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, laid out more than two dozen factors that its agents and lawyers should weigh when deciding whether to exercise prosecutorial discretion to dismiss a deportation. The memo called for “particular care and considerationâ€

The real headline : Failure of the Federal Government to enforce our Immigration laws leads to unchecked criminal behavior by Illegal aliens that refuse to obey any law - because there are no consequences for them doing so

Simplify,

Deport ALL illegal aliens.

To be a willful accomplice to non-enforcement
of the immigration laws one swore to uphold
is not only dereliction of duty, obstruction of
justice, and being an accomplice to seditious
overthrow of the law.

It is perjurious oath-breaking, a felony so
uncommon that we don't have a name for it, AFAIK.

In feudal societies, it was known as treason.

Originally Posted by jonhaloi

Simplify,

Deport ALL illegal aliens.

My thought exactly.

If your here illegally, you get deported - No if's, and's, or maybe's! And this includes the anchor babies. They go home with their parents!!!

Draw the line, do this enough, and those who want to come here illegally might start getting the message!