The Top 10 Things You Need to Know About the DHS Announcement

By Reform Immigration for America Recently, senior administration officials announced major changes to the deportation process. These procedural changes, if implemented properly, are a step in the right direction toward our goal: humane, comprehensive immigration reform. While there’s a lot of misinformation out there, we’ve compiled the top 10 things you should know about these new announcements. Here are the 10 Things You Should Know about DHS’s Announcement: All 300,000 ca...

KPBS: Will ‘Prosecutorial Discretion’ Change Deportation Trend?

KPBS Report: Changes to prosecutorial discretion By Ruxandra Guidi SAN DIEGO — The Department of Homeland Security has long said that its priority is to deport criminals and immigrants who pose a threat to national security. But enforcement of immigration laws has tightened beyond that guideline, with almost 80,000 non-criminal immigrants across the country deported since 2009. New guidelines on "prosecutorial discretion" grant law-enforcement agents the ability to d...

New Policy On Deportations Allows Some Non-Criminal Undocumented Immigrants To Stay

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration announced on Thursday it will do a case-by-case review of deportations, allowing many undocumented immigrants without criminal records to stay in the United States indefinitely and apply for work permits. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will send a letter on Thursday to Senate members who had asked for details on how the agency would prioritize its immigration enforcement. The policy change is meant as a framework to ...

AILA Report on Immigration Enforcement

AILA's report, Immigration Enforcement Off Target: Minor Offenses With Major Consequences, challenges the claim made by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that it is focusing its finite resources on the "highest enforcement priorities" - namely those who present threats to public safety and national security. The report's anecdotal accounts, 127 case examples from AILA members covering incidents in 24 states and the District of Columbia, are consistent with DHS's own data showing depor...

Activists Walkout on S-Comm Hearing in L.A.

Over 300 people walked out of a community forum held in Los Angeles on Monday, August 15, after demanding that S-Comm task force members resign. Families, Students, Community Leaders, Labor Organizers, Attorneys, Politicians, etc. were present with a unified voice that Secure Communities must be terminated. Some of the Orgs present: NDLON, CHIRLA, DreamTeam LA, OC Dream Team, SCIC, COFEM, NILC, SDIRC and more.

Controversial immigration enforcement program is target of profound protest

Los Angeles - Hundreds gathered in Los Angeles on Monday night for a chance to address a federal task force that will propose changes to a controversial immigration enforcement program. Speaker after speaker at the lively meeting denounced the Secure Communities program, with most not calling for changes but for the program to end entirely. “I’m here asking the government to end this Secure Communities program,” said Blanca Perez, an undocumented worker who was arrested for selling ice...