Monday, August 09, 2010

Students Spared Amid an Increase in Deportations

Passing the DREAM Act would take care of this all at once, maybe it is close. - - Donna Poisl

By JULIA PRESTON

The Obama administration, while deporting a record number of immigrants convicted of crimes, is sparing one group of illegal immigrants from expulsion: students who came to the United States without papers when they were children.

In case after case where immigrant students were identified by federal agents as being in the country illegally, the students were released from detention and their deportations were suspended or canceled, lawyers and immigrant advocates said. Officials have even declined to deport students who openly declared their illegal status in public protests.
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