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Namely, that as Chief Executive, President Obama has extraordinary leeway under our current immigration laws to prevent the deportation of certain immigrants if it is not in our national interest to deport them.
As John Cassidy has written, all of Obama's recent predecessors in the White House have used executive orders in the same way, to defer the deportation of certain groups.
"I am increasingly troubled by orders from federal judges halting the deportation of certain groups of individuals, all of which appear to ignore the fact that each alien in question was lawfully ordered removed from the United States," Thomas Homan, the acting head of ICE, told the Times.
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Not only the potential easing of deportation for certain categories of immigrants, but also a change in processing immigrants for deportation.
The administration argued that a coalition of Republican-led states had no legal standing to challenge the president's executive actions and that the president was within his rights to defer deportation for certain groups of immigrants.
To entice Latinos, he granted a reprieve from deportation to certain illegal immigrants who had arrived as children.
Texas and 25 other states are seeking to nullify Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which defers deportation for certain immigrants who came to the United States as children, and his Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents program, which defers deportation for their parents as well.
The legislation Congress approved then required the deportation of immigrants convicted of certain crimes, even if, as in Mr. Velasquez's case, the crime was committed long before the statute was enacted.
The law permits an immigration judge to allow cancellation of deportation in certain cases except when the noncitizen is convicted of an "aggravated felony".
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton echoed her statements, saying the administration cannot block deportations for certain groups.
Latino voters have also been energized by the push to pass the Dream Act for undocumented young people and Mr. Obama's decision to stop the deportation of young undocumented immigrants under certain conditions, Mr. Garcia said.
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