The court battle over immigration does not prevent the White House from tackling inhumane immigration policy
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The injunction on Obama’s expanded relief isn’t stopping Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from moving on the negative components of the new policies. Across the country, the agency is ignoring discretion and widening its priorities for removal without hesitation. The agency has carried out nationwide home raids last month, arresting more than 2,000 people.
Justified by Obama’s own stigmatizing felons-not-families language, people such as Pastor Max Villatoro of Iowa City are being picked up and deported on 15-year-old charges. Once caught, the administration treats immigrants-turned-prisoners to the conditions exposed by a recent rebellion in the prison dedicated solely to “criminal aliens” in Willacy, Texas.
Obama is ultimately responsible for the crisis that continues to break up immigrant families. The push for a humane immigration policy should go beyond a court battle to lift a conservative judge’s injunction on the expanded relief programs.
The deferred-action programs are just one tool among many that Obama can use to turn his record on deportation around and end the devastation of immigrant families. As his affirmative relief faces an unknown timeline in the courts.
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