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Obama Administration Curtails Deportations of Non-Criminal Immigrants

POSTED BY: Niki2
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NIKI2

Saturday, August 20, 2011 4:45 PM

Interesting:

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The Obama administration today announced it will no longer actively seek to deport illegal immigrants who don’t have criminal records and that it will review all existing deportation cases involving non-criminal immigrants on a case-by-case basis.

The news follows months of intense pressure from immigrant advocates who had urged the president to use his administrative authority to refocus the government's limited law enforcement resources while congressional gridlock over a comprehensive immigration system overhaul persists.

The administration has already prioritized the removal of criminal aliens, but today officials took that policy one step further with the promise to review more than 300,000 pending deportations on a case-by-case basis and stay those involving individuals not convicted of crimes.

The Department of Homeland Security said it will also no longer focus its limited resources on apprehending and deporting non-criminals, including young people brought to the country illegally by their parents, military veterans and the spouses of active-duty troops.

“It makes no sense to spend our enforcement resources on these low-priority cases when they could be used with more impact on others, including individuals who have been convicted of serious crimes,” Cecilia Munoz, the administration's director of intergovernmental affairs, wrote in a White House blog post.

“This means more immigration enforcement pressure where it counts the most, and less where it doesn’t," she said. "That’s the smartest way to follow the law while we stay focused on working with the Congress to fix it.”

An administration official said a joint DHS-Justice Department panel will apply a set of criteria to the pending cases, examining a person’s criminal record, his or her contributions to the community, family ties and military service record, all to determine whether or not to put them on hold. More at http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/08/obama-administration-h
alts-deportations-of-non-criminal-immigrants.html

Be interested to see what others thing; me, I think it's a good thing. Probably a sop to Hispanic voters, but it makes sense to me.

ANTHONYT

Sunday, August 21, 2011 4:21 AM

Hello,

It is a rather straightforward rule of Triage that when you have too many people to deal with, you prioritize the worst cases that aren't too far gone.

The philosophy works well in virtually any discipline, including the deportation of immigrants.

Which means the 70 year old Mexican granny who is illegally here and illegally babysitting for extra cash gets deported after the rapist, serial killer, gun runner, and gangster.

That we weren't operating this way already is surprising to me.

--Anthony

_______________________________________________

“If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all”

Jacob Hornberger

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.”

Mahatma Gandhi

KWICKO

Sunday, August 21, 2011 1:06 PM

Anthony: No kidding.

If, as John Boehner claims, "We're broke!", then it stands to reason we really don't have spare cash lying around to pay ICE SWAT teams to go strap up and kick in the doors of people whose biggest crime in life is being in America trying to make a better life for themselves.

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

PIRATENEWS

Monday, August 22, 2011 4:12 AM

Iowa Congressman Steve King reported in 2006 that eight American children are victims of sexual abuse by illegal aliens every day - a total of 2,920 annually
http://www.henrymakow.com/propaganda_-_nbc_news_caught_r.html

Obama administration said Thursday that it will halt deportation proceedings
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/18/new-dhs-rules-cancel-d
eportations/

It's called treason.

Under US Code, the punishment for treason is death.

GEEZER

Monday, August 22, 2011 1:02 PM

Until folks get on the ball and pass some sort of comprehensive immigration reform - in whatever shape that finally appears - the current executive rulings are just gonna be a political football...which probably means neither party will want to pass comprehensive immigration reform any time soon.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

OLDENGLANDDRY

Monday, August 22, 2011 1:36 PM

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Anthony: No kidding.

If, as John Boehner claims, "We're broke!", then it stands to reason we really don't have spare cash lying around to pay ICE SWAT teams to go strap up and kick in the doors of people whose biggest crime in life is being in America trying to make a better life for themselves.

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

Plus all governments need a pool of cheap labour as a stick to beat their workers with, which immigrants are ideal for, and a scapegoat when things get hairy, which immigrants are also ideal for.

NIKI2

Monday, August 22, 2011 3:42 PM

Right on Geezer:

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Until folks get on the ball and pass some sort of comprehensive immigration reform - in whatever shape that finally appears - the current executive rulings are just gonna be a political football...which probably means neither party will want to pass comprehensive immigration reform any time soon.

It makes common sense to go after the worst first, but how often do we see common sense come out of the government? At least this is a step forward...for now.

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

PIRATENEWS

Monday, August 22, 2011 5:54 PM

This is wonderful. Obama and his regime can now be arrested for treason. The punishment for treason is death.

If you are an illegal immigrant and you have not been arrested for committing a crime, the odds that you will ever be deported have now gone way, way down. With the Republicans in control of the House of Representatives, Barack Obama knows that he simply is not going to be able to get amnesty for illegal immigrants passed by Congress. But instead of giving up, Obama has decided to ram amnesty for illegal immigrants down our throats any way that he can. The head of the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, has announced that there will now be a case-by-case review of all deportation cases involving illegal immigrants. Those involving "criminals" will be prioritized and almost all the rest will be thrown out. In essence, this is "backdoor amnesty" for illegal immigrants and it also represents a stunning admission by the Obama administration that it is simply going to refuse to enforce our immigration laws.

Yes, deportation cases for criminals should be moved to the top of the list, but openly announcing that almost all other illegal immigrants will not be deported is just going to encourage millions more illegal immigrants to come pouring in to this country.

Government officials have now been given a list of 19 factors to use when deciding whether to use "prosecutorial discretion" in deportation cases.

Essentially, what is going to happen now is that illegal immigrants are going to get to stay in the United States if any of the following apply....

-arrival in the U.S. as a young child

-actively "pursuing an education"

-serving or served in the U.S. military

-spouse of someone in the U.S. military

-18 years old or younger

-"elderly"

-pregnant or nursing

-victim of a "serious crime"

-serious disability or health problem

-caring for a family member with a serious disability or health problem

As you can see, these categories are so broad that almost all illegal immigrants will be able to fit into at least one of them.

Now we are not only going to have "anchor babies", we are also going to have "anchor pregnancies". Millions of women that want to come to this country will soon learn that all they have to do is to somehow get inside our borders and get pregnant and they will be golden. With millions upon millions of promiscuous American men running around, that should not be too hard to do.

Janet Napolitano says that she wants to primarily focus on deporting those that have been convicted of a crime or that pose a "security risk".

But isn't coming into this country illegally a crime?

The funny thing is that many of the elements of this new policy seem to have been lifted almost directly out of the DREAM Act. But the Obama administration knows that passage of the DREAM Act is very unlikely at this point so now it is basically imposing amnesty for illegal immigrants by executive fiat.

Quite a few prominent politicians are already expressing outrage. For example, the following is how Arizona Governor Jan Brewer characterizes this new plan by the Obama administration....

"This plan amounts to backdoor amnesty for hundreds of thousands -- if not millions -- of illegal aliens"

Brewer also feels that Obama needs to be reminded that he is not a king that gets to do whatever he wants.....

"We need to remind President Obama that we elected a president that serves beneath the law and did not anoint a king that is above the law."

Sadly, this is a pattern that we are starting to see with Obama. If there is a law that he does not like, he just declares that he is not going to enforce it and everyone applauds.

People like Obama love to talk about "the rule of law", but whenever it becomes inconvenient for them they quickly discard it.

Dan Stein, the President of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, says that this new policy will essentially open up the floodgates for more illegal immigration....

"In essence, the adminis

ANTHONYT

Monday, August 22, 2011 6:48 PM

Hello,

This may be the first time I've seen Pirate complain about government transparency.

In reading his post, I find that, remarkably, Pirate does not object to prioritizing the deportation of criminals.

Rather, he is upset because this sound and reasonable government policy has been stated openly.

Pirate is afraid that the government transparency on this policy will encourage more immigrants to come over.

Pirate wishes the government was more secretive.

The devil must be very cold in that frigid wasteland he calls Hell.

--Anthony

_______________________________________________

“If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all”

Jacob Hornberger

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.”

Mahatma Gandhi

AURAPTOR

Tuesday, August 23, 2011 3:37 AM

Just as with Animal Farm , where all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others...

All illegals are illegal, but some are just more illegal than others.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "