A set of e-mails obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina show U.S. immigration officials developed strategies to increase the number of deportations so they could surpass the previous year’s record deportation numbers. Federal immigration authorities have claimed to target people who pose a threat to public safety b…
DetailsEl presidente Barack Obama exhortó el martes al Congreso a enviarle en los próximos meses un proyecto de ley de reforma migratoria. Opinó que esta iniciativa debería brindar a los inmigrantes sin documentos la opción a la naturalización y reducir el tiempo que actualmente tardan muchos trámites…
DetailsFederal agents never carried out some of the controversial tactics approved as part of a push to boost criminal deportations last year, including a plan to troll state driver’s license records for lists of foreign-born applicants, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency official said Friday. USA TODAY reported Friday that senior immigration officials in Washington had approved several tactics to make sure the government would not fall short of its target of deporting 210,000 convicted criminals in the fiscal year that ended in September. Among the steps agents proposed were mining state driver’s license databases, participating in local police checkpoints, and dispatching more agents to county jails. Records suggest the tactics would have ratcheted up deportations of people who had been convicted only of minor offenses.
DetailsU.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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