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amnesty sell out by obama

TooBigTooBig Member Posts: 28,560 ✭✭✭
edited June 2011 in General Discussion
Amnesty By Fiat

Susan Carroll of The Houston Chronicle opened her lead story on Monday with the words, "Homeland Security officials misled the public and Congress last year in an effort to downplay a wave of immigration case dismissals in Houston and other cities amid accusations that they had created a 'back-door amnesty,' newly released records show." The Chronicle reported that ICE Director John Morton released a memo last June instructing local immigration officials to dismiss pending cases against "thousands" of illegal immigrants who were set to be deported. Morton insisted ICE agents deport only the worst offenders, leaving all others in the country.

The Chronicle received a series of ICE documents in response to its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. (You can read them here.) Carroll wrote, "It was unclear from the documents, some of which were heavily redacted, exactly how the Houston office handled cases involving illegal immigrants with criminal records."

Nonetheless, the number of case dismissals increased by....

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