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Trump's New Guidance Calls for Vigorous Immigration Enforcement
[National Review] The immigration-enforcement guidance issued by President Trump Tuesday morning patently aims to shift the presumption against deportation created by President Obama’s guidance. In 2014, under the guise of setting out "immigration enforcement priorities," Obama’s Department of Homeland Security established a three-tier system for deportation. This was quite advisedly done under the rubric of "prosecutorial discretion." Federal agents were instructed to apply prosecutorial discretion as early in the evaluation process as possible, mindful of how sparse were resources to arrest, detain, and deport removable aliens. The message was clear: If an alien does not fit into the top tier, do not even bother to stop and question him, much less to arrest and commence deportation proceedings. While Obama’s two lower tiers were referred to, in an Orwellian way, as "priorities" (i.e., enforcement "Priority 2" and "Priority 3"), the reality was more like immunity. Posted by: Besoeker 2017-02-22 |
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