Prosecutorial Discretion -- Obama's First Adjustment to Immigration Policy
Channel: Richard Schaefer
Date: 2012-12-17

Prosecutorial Discretion -- Obama's First Adjustment to Immigration Policy

UNM-TRNS News Bureau students Janie Amaya and Adrianna McGinley produced this report about the campaign-season prospects for a new policy of the Obama Administration called "prosecutorial discretion."  Formally promulgated on June 17, 2011, the policy gives ICE prosecutors the discretion not to remove or deport certain unauthorized immigrants who have strong reasons to be in the United States and pose little or no threat to U.S. citizens. 

Go to the following Website below to see the originally-floated ICE memo describing which immigrants might be eligible to avoid prosecution, and therefore avoid removal or deportation:

www.ice.gov/doclib/secure.../pdf/prosecutorial-discretion-memo.pdf

McGinley and Amaya spent the fall 2011 semester reporting for the University of New Mexico's Talk Radio News Service Bureau in Washington, D.C., which also distributes reports to hundreds of talk radio news stations and other media outlets.

(First published during the fall of 2011)

Other Cross-Border Issues Group (CBIG) reports can be accessed at:

http://cbig.unm.edu