Thursday, November 24, 2011

Obama administration showing leniency in immigration cases

Some undocumented immigrants are being allowed to stay here under certain circumstances. - - Donna Poisl

By Brian Bennett, Washington Bureau

Reporting from Washington — The Obama administration will review immigration cases in Baltimore and Denver with an eye toward freezing deportations of illegal residents who have no criminal records and expanding the program nationwide.

The elderly, children who have been in the country more than five years, students who came to the U.S. under the age of 16 and are enrolled in a college degree program, and victims of domestic violence are among those whose deportations could be put on hold under the test program, which begins Dec. 4 and could be broadened in January.
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