It looks like Obama is creating a nationwide 'sanctuary city' on illegal immigration

[sailingaway]

I get not deporting victims of crime and witnesses who are in the legal system just for that reason, but setting up committees to make sure illegal immigrants who 'merely' have lower level crimes aren't deported? Restricting detention of suspect illegal immigrants to 48 hours when ICE takes so much longer than that to arrive, and they tend to disappear when released on bail?

That is not just failing to enforce the rule of law, it is administratively acting to frustrate it.

ICE announces changes to Secure Communities program http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/sdcounty/article_14f1fae8-0834-5c57-b6ff-b9bc2ec178a1.html

[Zippyjuan]

Meanwhile, record numbers of illegals are being deported already.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/06/nation/la-na-illegal-immigration-20101007

U.S. deported record number of illegal immigrants

For the second year in a row, the government deported more illegal immigrants during the last fiscal year than ever before, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement figures. About half of those deported had criminal records.


October 06, 2010|By Brian Bennett, Tribune Washington Bureau


The Obama administration deported a record number of illegal immigrants in the 2010 fiscal year, according to figures released Wednesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Of the 392,862 deportations from October 2009 through September of this year, about half were illegal immigrants with criminal records. The total was about 3,000 more deportations than the record set in the previous year.


The second straight year of record deportations from the U.S. reflects the approach of ICE under the Obama administration to focus its efforts on removing criminal illegal immigrants "who pose a national security or public safety threat," Homeland Security Deputy Press Secretary Matt Chandler said in a statement.

More than 195,000 criminals were deported in 2010, a 70% increase over 2008 in the forced removal of immigrant criminals. Officials credited the increase to programs such as Secure Communities, which focuses law enforcement resources on identifying illegal immigrants who have committed crimes and are being held in local and state jails.

"ICE is committed to tough law enforcement," agency Director John Morton said.