NILC: How the Obama Administration Can Use Executive Authority to Stop Deportations

Jan 10, 2014
1:53 PM

In case anyone in the Obama Administration wants to know how it can stop record deportations, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) published a post that explains it all:

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Whether or not Congress enacts immigration reform in 2014, the status quo is unacceptable. More than 1,000 immigrants are separated from their families and communities each day. The Obama administration has both the legal authority and the moral responsibility to prevent tomorrow’s citizens from suffering the consequences of political inaction.

“Administrative relief,” which is based on prosecutorial discretion, is a broad term that encompasses various forms of temporary relief from removal from the United States without the granting of a legal immigration status. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) prosecutorial discretion powers include the ability to refrain from placing a potentially deportable person in deportation proceedings, suspend or even terminate a deportation proceeding, postpone a deportation, release a person from detention, or deprioritize the enforcement of immigration laws against a person because it does not serve enforcement interests.

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How the Obama Administration Can Use Executive Authority to Stop Deportations by Latino Rebels