The Biden Administration has recently issued guidance around which undocumented immigrants law enforcement should prioritize for deportation. The administration has emphasized that undocumented immigrants who pose the greatest threat to public safety should be the first deported. Despite its efforts to reform immigration enforcement, the Biden Administration finds an opponent in Texas Attorney General Ken […]
By: James Sellars JD/MA Candidate, American University In a 2010 agency-wide memo describing the Obama Administration’s approach to immigration enforcement, former ICE director John Morton stated that “the removal of aliens who pose a danger to national security or a risk to public safety shall be ICE’s highest immigration enforcement priority.” Despite the Obama administration’s […]
Posted April 14, 2011 from Huffington Post WASHINGTON — Leading Senate Democrats, including Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.), called on the president on Wednesday to stop deporting undocumented young people who grew up in the United States. A letter signed by 22 Senate Democrats asks President Barack Obama to use his executive authority to prevent […]
