{"id":7213,"date":"2014-07-10T17:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T21:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=7213"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:51:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:51:39","slug":"this-date-in-obamas-administrative-amnesty-july-10-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/07\/10\/this-date-in-obamas-administrative-amnesty-july-10-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"This Date in Obama\u2019s Administrative Amnesty: July 10, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"This<\/a>On July 10, 2009, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it was using its executive authority to severely limit the application of the 287(g) program. \u00a0Secretary Janet Napolitano announced her Department would do this by rewriting and standardizing<\/a> agreements with participating local law enforcement agencies to ensure that their 287(g) operations could only target criminal aliens. This change would make the program comport with ICE\u2019s so-called \u201cenforcement priorities<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under the 287(g) program<\/a>, established in 1996 by the Illegal Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act, state and local law enforcement agencies may enter into agreements with DHS to receive training and assist in the enforcement of immigration laws at the local level. \u00a0\u00a0When Congress adopted the program, it did not specify or prioritize which illegal aliens should be targeted by the program, but rather gave state and local governments broad leeway to determine how to implement 287(g) to best serve and protect the interests of their communities.\u00a0 This included pursuing all immigration violators.<\/p>\n

While Secretary Napolitano intended to severely limit the scope of the 287(g) program, she sold the change differently.\u00a0 \u201cThis new agreement supports local efforts to protect public safety by giving law enforcement the tools to identify and remove dangerous criminal aliens,\u201d said Secretary Napolitano. \u201cIt also promotes consistency across the board to ensure that all of our state and local law enforcement partners are using the same standards in implementing the 287(g) program.\u201d Notably, she also said that the new 287(g) agreements will \u201caddress concerns that individuals may be arrested for minor offenses as a guise to initiate removal proceedings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more at FAIR\u2019s President Obama’s Record of Dismantling Immigration Enforcement<\/a>.