ICE skirts immigration law and begins to release illegal immigrants who have already been arrested and are waiting to be deported.
A memo from released yesterday by John Morton of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), included a new policy change that could affect thousands awaiting deportation. Morton signed a memo that went out to agencies across the country stating any illegal immigrants who have been charged with deportation have their cases reviewed and be released or absolved of any legal issues with the federal government if they have not committed any serious crime.
However, there is a catch. The suspected illegal immigrants must be able to prove they are taking care of necessary paperwork with ICE and have not committed a felony crime.
The memo read in part; “This memorandum establishes ICE policy for the handling of removal proceedings before the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) involving applications or petitions filed by, or on behalf of, aliens in removal proceedings. This policy outlines a framework for ICE to request expedited adjudication of an application or petition for an alien in removal proceedings that is pending before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services if the approval of such an application or petition would provide and immediate basis for relief to the alien. The policy will allow ICE and EOIR to address a major inefficiency in present practice and thereby avoid unnecessary delay and expenditure of resources.” Read the entire memo; http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/us/27immig_memo.pdf
This new policy at ICE comes as a major blow to agents who have already given ICE’s leader, Morton a vote of no confidence.
“It’s dispiriting for federal agents,” says Mark Krikorian of Center for Immigration Studies a Washington D.C. think tank.
While the majority of American’s don’t want amnesty given to those who entered the country illegally and have committed crimes just by crossing the border or overstaying visas the proverbial golden ticket.
Many contend management at ICE and the Obama White House has already begun a back-door amnesty process bypassing Congress.
“Is it an end run around Congress?” Krikorian asked. “In an informal sense, yes. This is a policy decision that is trying to make an end run around Congress. They are saying lets abuse our existing authority to create a defacto amnesty.”
Lamar Smith of Texas, ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee and a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, told The Washington Times that the Obama administration is "simply not serious about enforcing all of our immigration laws."
However, ICE management officials claim the new policy outlined in the memo will reduce a burgeoning court- case backlog and free up agents to focus on those in the country illegally who are involved with serious criminal matters.
Whichever way you look at it, the new ICE policy will grant thousands of illegal immigrants slated for deportation a stay- or in layman terms a chance for amnesty.
For more stories; http://www.examiner.com/county-political-buzz-in-san-diego/no-confidence-votes-become-a-pattern-at-ice-and-border-patrol
Comments
This is unbelievable.
Infuriating.
Sounds to me... Obama and his Clan know they are going to lose their Majority this November. And Obama knows he is going to lose his Presidency come 2012.
So... like a spoiled child who was raised without a Father-Figure in the family, he is acting like a little Brat... He is doing whatever he wants irregardless of the Constitution, or existing Immigration Law, or the Wishes and Desires of The American People !!!
What an Egotistical, Big Eared, Pencil Necked Geek !! He makes me embarrassed to be an American. All of us African-Americans should REALLY be ashamed. We waited all this time for FINALLY a "Black President"... and just look !! ... what we got !!??
I'm a white person, which should not matter. I do agree with you 100 %. The majority of americans who do not want to support the illegals are being side-stepped by the government. I was naturilized and had followed all the rules of legal immigration.Had peoperly applied. Took almost two years to come in. Also had learned English for five years prior to coming.
Thumbs up to your letter.
I'm a white person, which should not matter. I do agree with you 100 %. The majority of americans who do not want to support the illegals are being side-stepped by the government. I was naturilized and had followed all the rules of legal immigration.Had peoperly applied. Took almost two years to come in. Also had learned English for five years prior to coming.
Thumbs up to your letter.
EVERY INCUMBENT, CAREER POLITICIAN WHO HAS A BAD IMMIGRATION RECORD, BEGINNING WITH SEN. REID AND HIS CZARS MUST BE REMOVED FROM THEIR SEAT IN WASHINGTON. JOIN NUMBERSUSA AND AID IN FIGHTING AGAINST AMNESTY OR BENEFITS FROM THIS INVASION. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Tell your Representative in Washington at 202-224-3121 and State level officials Remember illegal aliens could have voted in the midterm elections? The Obama administration has shown its true colors, that illegal immigration is a great way to collect votes in the future by pacifying large minority groups.
Overpaid lawyers have a way of not having to be overworked. . .the only time when the state is forced to behave like a church: judge only the bad stuff, voters have to come from somewhere, why not from between the cracks in that wall we should have completed that has turned out to be a money pit. Good job! Thanks
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