Wednesday, March 31, 2010

ICE officials set quotas to deport more illegal immigrants

By Spencer S. Hsu and Andrew Becker, Washington Post
March 27, 2010

Seeking to reverse a steep drop in deportations, U.S. immigration authorities have set controversial new quotas for agents. At the same time, officials have stepped back from an Obama administration commitment to focus enforcement efforts primarily on illegal immigrants who are dangerous or have violent criminal backgrounds.

The moves, outlined in internal documents and a recent e-mail by a senior U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official to field directors nationwide, differ from pledges by ICE chief John T. Morton and his boss, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, to focus enforcement on the most dangerous illegal immigrants. That approach represented a break from the mass factory raids and neighborhood sweeps the Bush administration used to drive up arrests. [...]

Read the full article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2010/03/27/ST2010032700037.html

Read the ICE memos (PDF):
http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/ICEdocument032710.pdf?sid=ST2010032700037

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