A call to suspend deportations while Congress debates reform: How realistic is it?
A call to suspend deportations while Congress debates reform: How realistic is it?
- May 16, 2013
- Louis DeSipio, Chicano/Latino studies and political science professor, comments on Southern California Public Radio May 15, 2013
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."
For the full story, please visit http://www.scpr.org/blogs/multiamerican/2013/05/15/13677/a-call-to-suspe....
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