Jobs? Where?
Via CIS
Most of the attention directed toward the president’s executive actions on immigration has been focused on the plan to issue work permits to potentially five million illegal aliens who are the parents of U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents (LPRs). But these are not the only illegal aliens who are getting work permits as part of the executive amnesty. Starting almost immediately after the president’s announcement in November, ICE offices around the country were directed to go through their caseload of illegal aliens in the process of being deported and start releasing all those who, by the stroke of the president’s pen, were no longer priorities for enforcement. And, under current policy, many illegal aliens who have criminal records and/or prior deportations also are getting work permits.
According to media reports, as of the end of 2014, more than 600 detained illegal aliens were freed by the executive action, 200 of whom were in Arizona.
Who gets a “get out of jail free” card?
Illegal aliens with pending criminal cases;
Illegal aliens with criminal charges that were dismissed or dropped (sometimes local prosecutors drop charges because they believe the alien will be deported);
Illegal aliens with significant traffic violations, usually drunk driving, but also vehicle theft and hit-and-run;
Illegal aliens who have been deported once or many times before, but who have minor or no criminal convictions, and who are often filing last-ditch asylum claims;
Illegal aliens without criminal convictions who are contesting deportation in protracted court cases (at taxpayer expense), which will now be dropped;
Illegal aliens already ordered deported who are awaiting travel documents, which in some cases are deliberately delayed by their home countries.