Under growing pressure from open borders groups that accuse the Obama Administration of removing too many illegal aliens, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in early 2011 began to implement formal measures to relax the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws. DHS has set forth its new policies regarding removal in a series of memos issued by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton. Together, these memos constitute nothing less than the granting of administrative amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens currently in the United States.<\/p>\n
To get more information about this unprecedented move by an administration when it comes to enforcing U.S. immigration laws, check out our \u201cMorton Memos\u201d section<\/a>. Here you will find links to all the memos, FAIR\u2019s detailed summary analysis of the memos, and find out what you can do to help our efforts to stop implementation of the Morton Memos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Under growing pressure from open borders groups that accuse the Obama Administration of removing too many illegal aliens, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in early 2011 began to implement formal measures to relax the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws. DHS has set forth its new policies regarding removal in a series of memos issued<\/p>\n