U.S. immigration officials beefed up efforts to deport undocumented immigrants convicted of minor crimes as a way to meet their criminal deportation quotas, ask according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were sent to traffic safety checkpoints set-up by local police…
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DetailsWhile 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…
Details“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…
DetailsThe 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…
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