Last June, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton outlined criteria for prosecutorial discretion in a memo, which called on ICE officials to consider a range of factors in determining whether an individual should be deported or not. Here’s how the Immigration Policy Center described the memo after...
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It was last year that we first told you about Pedro Gutierrez, a DREAMer from Arizona who aspires to become a Marine, who came to the US when he was 7. His grandmother, his only caretaker, died when he was still a child, leaving him an orphan. But Pedro...
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Apr 6, 2012
During the first six months of last year, the federal government deported more than 46,000 parents who claimed their children are U.S. citizens, according to a new report that has raised concerns about what happens to children after their parents are expelled.
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A lot has been written this week on the recent ICE sweep that arrested more than 3,100 undocumented immigrants over the span of six days, involving more than 1,900 ICE officers in every state across the nation.
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Apr 3, 2012
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Monday that they had arrested more than 3,100 criminals and others living in the country illegally, the largest such effort in the agency's history, adding fuel to the national debate over the Obama administration's stepped-up deportation policies.
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Last June, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton outlined criteria for prosecutorial discretion in a memo, which called on ICE officials to consider a range of factors in determining whether an individual should be deported or not.
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The illegal reentry of a previously deported immigrant is one the principal rationales for deportations conducted under the Obama administration. Many of these cases could fall under the new policy of prosecutorial discretion but, for some reason, they are not considered in this category.
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Jaime Martinez of Manitowoc, whose family and friends have been fighting his deportation, got on a bus in Chicago on Friday morning on the first leg of his journey back to Mexico.
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