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ICE Ignores 16,500 Deportation Cases

ICE officials suspended over 16,500 pending illegal alien deportation cases last week. (FOX News Latino, April 25, 2012) This is the latest development in the Obama Administration's review of the nation's pending 300,000 immigration cases in an effort to grant amnesty to those not fitting its enforcement "priorities." (See FAIR Morton Memos Summary, Jan. 2012)
The Administration has made clear that it intends to suspend these cases indefinitely unless the alien is subsequently convicted of a crime meeting its priorities. (Id.) Moreover, it is estimated that the Administration grants work authorization to 90 percent of the illegal aliens whose cases it closes. (See Judiciary Committee Press Release, Apr. 25, 2012)
According to ICE, already 2,700 of the suspended cases have been permanently shelved. (Washington Post, Apr. 24, 2012) Moreover, statements by ICE officials indicate that many of these cases meet specific criteria found in Director John Morton's prosecutorial discretion memos and in the failed DREAM Act, such as college enrollment, longstanding unlawful presence, and arrival in the U.S. as a minor. (Id.; See FAIR DREAM Act Summary, Nov. 12, 2010; see also FAIR Morton Memos Summary, Jan. 2012)