The President’s campaign promises re: deportation of illegal and undocumented immigrants in the U.S. may be moving forward per a pair of memos released this week by Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.
The memos describe a plan that would:
- No longer exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement
- Allow Immigration officers to seek and deport undocumented people who have engaged in fraud, willful misrepresentation or have “abused” any government benefit, in addition to larger-offense criminals
The memo’s directives seek to hire 10,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and 5,000 new Border Patrol agents, and broaden expedited deportations to those who have been in the country for up to two years (currently limited to those who have been in the U.S. for two weeks or less).
