While Congress is dithering about comprehensive immigration reform, find President Obama’s enforcement team is hard at work deporting petty criminals who are here illegally. In the fiscal year that ended in September, seek USA Today reports, Immigration and Customs Enforcement “deported 225,390 criminal immigrants — a record, and well above the agency’s targ…
“Gang bangers.” That’s how President Barack Obama, while speaking at a November presidential debate, characterized the criminal immigrants who have been deported during his administration. A recent news report, however, shows that immigration officials floated ideas last year aimed at buoying deportations stats by focusing on minor…
The White House has stressed that despite record deportations under its watch, the bulk of its efforts are spent going after hardcore criminals and not ordinary undocumented workers. But records obtained by USA Today suggest that immigration officials stepped up efforts to locate and deport people convicted of low-level offenses in order to hit…
The President’s Priorities and John Morton’s Quota are Completely Incompatible February 15, 2013 – Washington, DC. In response to the revelations in this morning’s USA Today that ICE agents believed careers were tied to boosting deportation numbers and the tactics they used to do so, Chris Newman, Legal Director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network…
U.S. immigration officials laid out plans last year that would ratchet up expulsions of immigrants convicted of minor crimes as part of an urgent push to make sure the government would not fall short of its criminal deportation targets, patient new records obtained by USA TODAY show. Among those new tactics – detailed in interviews and internal e-mails -…
Jose Antonio Vargas, health the undocumented journalist who came out about his immigration status in a New York Times feature story, check will not be the only undocumented immigrant making his voice heard at the capitol this week. Vargas will be speaking at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration reform Wednesday. But a group of more than 250
Ramiro Gomez Jr. is working fast enough to draw the least amount of attention, help but slowly enough to make every detail stand out. He describes the rush he gets as "therapeutic." Gomez has created inserts on a human-size piece of cardboard, and with a pair of pliers he begins to lace wire to it. He then grabs tools to prop the cardboard…
At least 11 undocumented immigrants and their allies were arrested Wednesday after interrupting a Senate hearing on immigration reform. The protesters from around the country were calling for immediate action to end the Obama administration’s unprecedented deportations. They rose to their feet and interrupted remarks by Homeland Security Secretary…
Lawmakers who are shaping the fate of the millions of people in the U.S. illegally were told by one Wednesday that it’s time to rewrite immigration laws so that they, too, can live the American dream. "What do you want to do with me?" an emotional Jose Antonio Vargas demanded of senators. "How do you define American?" The first…