A large group of immigrants may escape deportation with the new policies in place now. - - Donna Poisl
By JEREMY B. WHITE
A recent shift in the policies guiding immigration field agents and prosecutors could offer the type of hope that has been steadily receding for Silvia Salcedo Sanchez.
The Department of Homeland Security announced last week a sweeping review of deportation cases before immigration courts and the establishment of a nationwide retraining program for enforcement agents and prosecuting attorneys. Both are intended to advance a policy, first articulated in a June memo from Immigration and Customs Enforcement director John Morton, that would focus deportations on immigrants who have committed serious crimes or who pose a threat to public safety. That would divert enforcement away from a broad category of noncriminal immigrants that includes those who arrived as young children, veterans and those with strong family ties.
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