{"id":262,"date":"2011-07-15T13:29:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T17:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=262"},"modified":"2017-07-27T13:23:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T17:23:28","slug":"evidence-that-the-morton-memo-on-prosecutorial-discretion-is-being-applied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2011\/07\/15\/evidence-that-the-morton-memo-on-prosecutorial-discretion-is-being-applied\/","title":{"rendered":"Evidence that the Morton Memo on Prosecutorial Discretion is Being Applied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent memo by ICE Director John Morton outlining an expansive use of prosecutorial discretion appears to have already produced tangible results in sparing an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/how-to-report-illegal-immigrants\">illegal alien from deportation<\/a>. A July 8 article in the Blade (\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonblade.com\/2011\/07\/02\/new-hope-for-bi-national-gay-couples\/\" target=\"_blank\">New hope for bi-national gay couples<\/a>\u201d) details a notification received from USCIS on July 6 that the government \u201c\u2026would no longer pursue deportation\u2026\u201d of a Venezuelan man who married a U.S. citizen in Connecticut and then applied for a green card. The green card had been denied because of the Defense of Marriage Act and deportation proceedings were begun. However, in May an immigration judge had halted the deportation proceedings following the issuance of an order by Justice Secretary Eric Holder vacating a deportation proceeding in a similar case.<\/p>\n<p>The Blade coverage of this development states, \u201cThe notification \u2026marks the first time ICE has administratively closed such proceedings against the spouse of a gay U.S. citizen.\u201d The article goes on to cite \u201cobservers\u201d who opined that \u201c\u2026the decision to close proceedings \u2026could be related to a memo ICE issued on June 17 listing situations in which enforcement agents may decide to exercise prosecutorial authority\u2026\u201d to drop deportation efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent memo by ICE Director John Morton outlining an expansive use of prosecutorial discretion appears to have already produced tangible results in sparing an illegal alien from deportation. A July 8 article in the Blade (\u201cNew hope for bi-national gay couples\u201d) details a notification received from USCIS on July 6 that the government \u201c\u2026would<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2011\/07\/15\/evidence-that-the-morton-memo-on-prosecutorial-discretion-is-being-applied\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[5,3,6,4],"tags":[987,374,47],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14607,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/14607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}