A few weeks ago, John Morton, head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency , authored an internal memorandum (that quickly became external) spelling out new procedures to dismiss thousands of deportation and removal cases against people facing deportation. The rationale was simple. ICE wanted to focus on “serious criminals” and not on the...Read More
With its October session already underway, the Supreme Court has decided to provide the clarity and uniformity that the problem of hiring unauthorized aliens requires. It has granted the petition for certiorari in Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting on the grounds that it concerns a question of exceptional national importance; and because the state disregarded...Read More
From the Los Angeles Times, on October 6, 2010, it is reported that the Obama administration deported more people than last year according to figures released by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The article goes on to say that about half of the deportations were immigrants with criminal records. Still, even with a record...Read More
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