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Obama Starts Suspending Deportations
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Updated: Tue, 08/23/2011 - 4:14pm
Keeping
its promise to suspend deportations for a broad class of illegal immigrants,
the Obama Administration has officially started the process that’s expected to
spare tens of thousands from removal in the coming months.
Among
the first illegal aliens to benefit from the president’s backdoor amnesty plan
is a Mexican man living in Florida. He got busted a few years ago after
applying for a work permit and was earmarked for deportation. Earlier this
month local media portrayed the man, Manuel Guerra, as a desperate
undocumented worker
trying to build a new life after fleeing violent street gangs in his native
Mexico.
This
week the 27-year-old, who has lived in the U.S. illegally for more than a
decade, became the poster child for Obama’s newly implemented amnesty program.
Federal immigration authorities officially suspended his
deportation,
according a mainstream newspaper report that says Guerra had been caught in a
“tortuous and seemingly failing five-year court fight against deportation.”
Guerra
was spared after a working group from the departments of Homeland Security and
Justice met to start reviewing 300,000 deportation cases pending before
immigration courts nationwide. Under Obama’s new plan, authorities will have wide discretion to
halt deportations
and will be encouraged to do so in cases where illegal immigrants attend
school, have family in the military or are primary bread winners.
The
stealth amnesty plan was first introduced last year in case Congress doesn’t
pass legislation to legalize the nation’s 12 million undocumented immigrants.
Earlier this year political appointees at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services (USCIS), actually issued a directive to enact “meaningful immigration
reform absent legislative action.” The plan includes delaying deportation
indefinitely (“deferred action”), granting green cards, allowing illegal
immigrants to remain in the U.S. indefinitely while they seek legal status
(known as “parole in place”) and expanding the definition of “extreme
hardships” so any illegal alien could meet the criteria and remain in the
country.
This
goes hand in hand with the president’s new blueprint for immigration reform,
which was recently issued by the White House. Titled “Building A 21st
Century Immigration System,” the plan strives to strengthen the U.S. economy and
“competitiveness” by creating a legal immigration system that reflects the
nation’s “values and diverse needs.” After all, it claims that the “overwhelming
majority” of people living in the U.S. with “no legal status” are “simply
seeking a better life for themselves and their children.”
The
president’s new plan, which has already allocated $8 million to community
groups that operate immigrant “integrational programs,” also expands “anti
discrimination provisions of immigration law” and provides more “comprehensive
anti-retaliation protections.”
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