{"id":5887,"date":"2014-02-13T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5887"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:13:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:13:04","slug":"this-date-in-obamas-administrative-amnesty-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/02\/13\/this-date-in-obamas-administrative-amnesty-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This Date in Obama\u2019s Administrative Amnesty: February 13, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ThisOn February 13, 2012, President Obama introduced his 2013 budget<\/a>, proposing to slash immigration enforcement programs. In addition to cutting funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by 4 percent, the White House proposal sought reducing the 287(g) federal-local law enforcement program by $17 million\u2014a whopping 25 percent.<\/p>\n

Despite Congress refusing to enact President Obama\u2019s budget, he nonetheless got his way when buried in the bottom of an ICE press release ten months later<\/a>, his Administration declared it would not be renewing any 287(g) task force model agreements in 2013. The release<\/a> stated, \u201cICE has [] decided not to renew any of its agreements with state and local law enforcement agencies that operate task forces under the 287(g) program.\u201d In effect, Obama\u2019s move was more significant than the $17 million cut initially sought, effectively cutting the state and local law enforcement program in half.<\/p>\n

Despite the effectiveness and popularity of the 287(g) program, the Obama Administration has from the beginning been working to dismantle it.\u00a0 Just months after taking office, President Obama restricted the 287(g) program<\/a> to ensure participating law enforcement agencies enforced immigration laws only against \u201cdangerous criminal aliens.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information, see FAIR\u2019s record of President Obama\u2019s Dismantling of Immigration Enforcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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