Instead, the specter of deportation removes the human and grounding element in any political discussion -- those individuals who are most directly impacted.
Instead of walls and deportation that no 7- and 9-year-old should worry about, they are counting the number of medals the USA has won.
Immigration officials said they would now focus on employers, primarily wielding the threat of civil complaints and fines, instead of raids and worker deportation.
"Why can't he come home?" Ángel Rosa's 18-year-old daughter, Lorena, asked on Thursday upon hearing her father had been turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICEE) for deportation instead of being allowed to return to his family in Hyrum, Utah.
Hanen at that time ordered the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a state-by-state review of immigrants who were given three years of safeguards from deportation, instead of two, under Obama's immigration action.
They will instead be granted two-year deferrals of deportation, which are renewable.
However, instead of trying to reduce deportations, the Obama Administration is piloting a new, unprecedented and extraordinarily harsh effort to hunt down and deport thousands of hardworking undocumented immigrants in New Orleans.
In Iowa on Saturday, Trump attacked the media for focusing on the deportation question instead of other aspects of his immigration policy.
Instead of encouraging agents to hit deportation quotas, immigration agents should be instructed and given incentives to look at each individual case to assess an immigrant's ties to the U.S., how she is contributing to her family, community, and society, and what relief she may be eligible for.
Instead of protecting the families that live under the fear of deportation, last week high officials at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) sought to protect the Obama administration by urging a delay in the Department of Homeland Security's review to reform deportation policies.
