She had spent her final week praying for one outcome while preparing for another. With five days left before she was supposed to leave the United States, Paula Godoy explained to her three children what it meant to be deported. With three days left, she packed her clothes and...
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Sep 22, 2011
A task force created to help overhaul a controversial deportation program instead witnessed five of its 19 members resign last week, another sign the Obama administration's immigration policy remains politically problematic for him at a time when courting Latinos is crucial to his re-election.
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President Barack Obama says he backs immigration reform, announcing last month an initiative to ease deportation policies, but he has sent home over 1 million illegal immigrants in 2-1/2 years -- on pace to deport more in one term than George W. Bush did in two.
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Sep 13, 2011
The Obama administration recently announced that immigration enforcement programs will no longer target DREAM Act-eligible youth and other low-priority immigration offenders. This is a huge step in the right direction for the White House and its Department of Homeland Security.
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In August, the Obama administration announced that immigration enforcement programs will no longer target DREAM Act-eligible youth and other low-priority immigration offenders. This is a huge step in the right direction for the White House and its Department of Homeland Security.
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An article by Julian Aguilar at Texas Tribune about Roxann Lara, a pregnant woman detained by Border Patrol agents, raises many more concerns about how that agency is complying with the Obama administration's new deportation policy.
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A shift in prioritizing which immigration cases to prosecute for deportation has created hope, some of it false, among those living in the country illegally. The change does not alter eligibility for legal residency or prevent an arrest. But it may stave off deportation and give immigrants a chance...
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Economic and political realities prompt the Obama administration's welcome shift on deportations from going after those who pose no security or public-safety threat to focusing enforcement on those who do. More than 800,000 people in the U.S. without permission were expelled in the past two years by U.S. Immigration...
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Sep 2, 2011
Unfortunately, many people are confusing immigration amnesty with the government's decision to refocus its priorities in order to deport dangerous undocumented immigrants. It is disgraceful that unscrupulous people are taking advantage of the confusion to take other people's hard-earned money with false promises.
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The Obama Administration's announcement that it will bring its deportation practices in line with common sense law enforcement priorities has generated the predictable outcry from mass-deportation advocates, who incorrectly have characterized the sensible policy announcement as a "backdoor amnesty." But, immigrants should listen to Rep. Gutierrez and ICIRR, not...
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