Obama Administration Curtails Deportations of Non-Criminal Immigrants. Aug 18, 2011 5:18pm ABC News’ Devin Dwyer (@devindwyer) reports: 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. “This means more immigration enforcement pressure where it counts the most, and less where it doesn’t," she said. Streamlining Legal Immigration. “[W]e’ve got to bring our legal immigration system into the 21st century… if you are a citizen, you shouldn’t have to wait years before your family is able to join you in America...
If you’re a foreign student who wants to pursue a career in science or technology, or a foreign entrepreneur who wants to start a business with the backing of American investors, we should help you do that here. Because if you succeed, you’ll create American businesses and American jobs. You’ll help us grow our economy.
You’ll help us strengthen our middle class.” President Barack Obama, January 29, 2013 Our immigration system should reward anyone who is willing to work hard and play by the rules. The President's Proposal Keep families together. Little Girl Who Challenged First Lady Is Right: Obama Is Deporting More Immigrants Than Ever. A little girl became the face of the nation's immigration debate on Wednesday, when she told First Lady Michelle Obama about her mother's fear.
"My mom ... she says that Barack Obama is taking everybody away that doesn't have papers," the second-grader said after being called on by the first lady, who was visiting a suburban Maryland school with Mexico's First Lady Margarita Zavala. And when Michele Obama replied by describing the need to make sure "that people can be here with the right kind of papers," the girl simply responded quietly: "But my mom doesn't have any. " (Watch the video below.) The girl's guilelessness and innocence, in contrast to the inchoate rage of the anti-immigrant movement -- and even to the first lady's suddenly hollow-sounding talking points -- could well turn her into an icon as immigration makes its way to the front of the national agenda. But surely she was wrong, in suggesting that President Obama is a particular danger to undocumented immigrants? Enforcement and Removal Operations. To identify, arrest, and remove aliens who present a danger to national security or are a risk to public safety, as well as those who enter the United States illegally or otherwise undermine the integrity of our immigration laws and our border control efforts.
ERO upholds America's immigration laws at, within and beyond our borders through efficient enforcement and removal operations. Thomas Homan Executive Associate Director, Enforcement and Removal Operations Thomas Homan is Executive Associate Director for Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Washington, D.C. Mr. Mr. In 1999, Mr. In March 2009, Mr. Republican Senator Jeff Sessions Says "Virtually No One Is Being Deported"
Updated 10/09/2013, 01:05PM "The federal government has reached a point now where virtually no one is being deported, except those convicted of serious crimes.
" That's what Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said on Friday during the opening debate over an immigration reform bill in the Senate. And it's 100 percent not true. The raw statistics tell a much different story. Here are some I touched on back in January: 1.6 million: The record number of deportations under Obama during his first four years in office. In 2012, U.S. And the majority of people being deported are not serious criminals, according to 2011 deportation stats from U.S.
Of the 396,906 removals by ICE in the 2011 fiscal year, 45 percent were non-criminal and 24 percent were for misdemeanors, what ICE calls Level 3 crimes. Deportation. Deportation Numbers Unwrapped. Raw Statistics Reveal the Real Story of ICE Enforcement in Decline Download a PDF of this Backgrounder Related Publications: Panel Press Release, Panel Transcript, Panel Video Jessica M.
Vaughan is the Director of Policy Studies at the Center for Immigration Studies. A key talking point for proponents of amnesty for illegal aliens is that the Obama administration has made historic improvements to border security and immigration enforcement, leading to “record” numbers of deportations that surpass the performance of earlier administrations. On the same day, to far less fanfare, Morton also announced the implementation of new restrictions on how the agents and officers working under him could use their authority to enforce immigration laws.