South Carolina Immigration Case Tests New Deportation Policy

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            <b>The case of an undocumented Mexican in South Carolina who is fighting  deportation with support from U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) will  put the validity of the authorities' new discretionary policy to the  test.  </b>The fate of Gabino Sánchez, 27, will be decided Tuesday at an  immigration court in Charlotte, and <b>for Gutierrez it will shine a light  on whether the Immigration and Customs Enforcement memorandum giving  priority to expelling undocumented criminals "carries any weight."</b><br />

"Gabino is an example of an immigrant who should not be deported," the congressman told Efe.
"If the Obama administration is serious about applying the policy of executive discretion, it should close the case of this immigrant," he said.
Sánchez came to the United States when he was 14. He settled in Ridgeland, South Carolina, worked in gardening and construction and eventually married and had two children.

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            Gutierrez has spurred the creation of defense committees in places like  the Carolinas, New York, Maryland, Dallas, Chicago and San Francisco to <b> identify cases like that of Sánchez and of dreamers who face  deportation.</b>

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