Stephen Yale-Loehr, who teaches immigration law at Cornell Law School, advises caution for potential beneficiaries of this administrative action. He says:
“The devil is in the details. A Department of Homeland Security memo released today announcing this new policy states: ‘No individual should receive deferred action under this memorandum unless they first pass a background check and requests for relief pursuant to this memorandum are to be decided on a case by case basis. Homeland Security cannot provide any assurance that relief will be granted in all cases.’
"I worry that the announcement will be implemented more stingily than the administration would like. We saw that happened with the ICE prosecutorial discretion memo issued last June. A year later, only 2 percent of people in deportation proceedings have been offered relief. I hope this policy change will be implemented more generously."
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Michael Jones-Correa is a Cornell professor of government and author of several books on immigration, including, “Latino Lives in America: Making it Home.” He can discuss the new policy’s social and political implications for the nation.
More about Jones-Correa:http://government.arts.cornell.edu/faculty/jones-correa
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