Immigration Newsletter

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Deportations Drop as Obama Pushes for New Immigration Law - Bloomberg

Deportations Drop as Obama Pushes for New Immigration Law - Bloomberg
original by Michael C. Bender

The Obama administration has cut back on deporting undocumented immigrants, with forced
departures on track to drop more than 10 percent, the first annual decline in more than a decade.
In his first term, President Barack Obamahighlighted record deportations to show he was getting tough on immigration enforcement, which Republicans and even some Democrats have demanded as a condition for overhauling existing laws.
                                                                                            Photographer: John Moore/Getty Images



The last fiscal year was different. The government deported 343,020 people in the U.S. illegally from Oct. 1, 2012, to Sept. 7, 2013, the most recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement data show. If that pace continued through the Sept. 30 end of the fiscal year, removals would reach a six-year low.
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click the link to see the full article -- it explains many of the forces at work that have caused the immigration enforcement system to become so dysfunctional.

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

'Parole in place': Obama's illegal-immigration order stokes amnesty worries - CSMonitor.com

'Parole in place': Obama's illegal-immigration order stokes amnesty worries - CSMonitor.com

Facing intense pressure from immigrant advocates who want the president to do more to limit deportations, the Obama administration has quietly issued a directive to help undocumented immigrants who are closely related to military personnel stay in the country.

The effort is called "parole in place," and it aims to end rampant confusion among immigration officials about how to treat the parents, spouses, and minor children of those in active duty as well as veterans and reservists. Under parole in place, these relatives no longer have to leave the country to apply for legal US status – a situation that often resulted in the applicants being barred from reentering the US for years.
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Thursday, December 5, 2013

Obama's uncle wins immigration battle, gets OK to stay in U.S. - CNN.com

Obama's uncle wins immigration battle, gets OK to stay in U.S. - CNN.com

The article says that Judge Leonard I. Shapiro handled the case. That is interesting, because I remember he handled President Obama's aunt Zeituni's case as well. If he has been here that long, maybe he did a Registry case?