Since when does John Morton get to make law for 300 million people?
Posted on 08/27/2010 2:30:53 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
PHOENIX (Reuters) – A shake-up in immigration policy may lead to deportation proceedings being dropped for thousands of aliens who entered the United States illegally but are applying to stay in the country, officials said on Friday.
They said the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) seeks to end deportation proceedings against detained illegal immigrants who have applications pending to become legal U.S. residents, if agents determine they have no criminal history and do not present a security threat.
The policy shift emerged from an internal memorandum ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton sent last week to the agency's principal legal adviser and a director of enforcement and removal operations.
The memo was published by the New York Times on Friday and confirmed to Reuters by officials.
Morton said the policy aimed to reduce the backlog in immigration courts, where authorities identified some 17,000 cases last year that could be eliminated if ICE dropped removal proceedings against illegal immigrants who had applied for legal status and were very likely to get it.
The issue of what to do with nearly 11 million illegal immigrants living and working in the shadows in the United States has become an increasingly hot topic in the run up to the midterm elections in November, where Democratic control of Congress is on the line.
President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats back a comprehensive reform of immigration policy to tighten border security, while allowing illegal immigrants in good standing the chance to learn English, pay a fine and get on a path to citizenship.
Republicans say that policy is effectively "amnesty" and likely to encourage more illegal entrants.
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Meanwhile..
Feds arrest 370 immigrants in 10 states
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100827/ap_on_re_us/us_immigration_arrests_4
CHICAGO – Federal officials announced Friday they had arrested 370 immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally or convicted of other crimes as part of a three-day roundup in the Midwest.
Those arrested were legal immigrants with convictions that made them eligible for deportation, illegal immigrants who had been convicted of other crimes, immigration fugitives wanted for being in the country illegally or people who had been deported and come back.
“These are not people we want freely roaming our streets,” said John Morton, director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.
MAY FRIGGING MAY, WTH they are now dropping deportations who they already have, many are going to court only to be told they do not have to leave .
No wonder the press and the biased media are losing money and respect
Internal memo = executive order.
“if agents determine they have no criminal history and do not present a security threat.”
they aren’t going to do those checks. FUBO.
What a crock..they will never send them home...its all lies
Since when does John Morton get to make law for 300 million people?
Bend over America here it comes.
But these Cretins are NOT welcome!!
McCain/Obama/Soros/Palin support this.
constitutional duty> failure to enforce the law > impeachment
They cannot even fathom the stupidity of their rulings....
They (Progressives/Socialists) just want more plantation voters.
Who do we impeach first in the new Congress?
Seems there is a major shift late every Friday.
Next Friday is the elimination of Congress. With things like this being done through policy changes why do we need em?
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