From SCPR:
Immigrant advocates have been asking the Obama administration to suspend some deportations while the Senate debates immigration reform, this time joined by prominent Latino civil rights and labor groups. How realistic of a goal it is depends on who you ask.…But President Obama has held that he can't and won't halt deportations unless Congress acts. And it would be highly unlikely for the White House to change course now, says Louis DeSipio, a political scientist at UC Irvine. "My take is that the Obama administration is unlikely to change policy while Congress is debating the bill," DeSipio says. "The current policy is to target criminal aliens and folks with outstanding orders of deportation." There is also already a policy known as prosecutorial discretion, DeSipio points out, which calls for the review of deportation cases involving people who don't have criminal records or who arrived in the U.S. as minors. But, DeSipio says, "I doubt they would extend this to all unauthorized immigrants who might be eligible for legalization."

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