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IRISH IMMIGRANTS WHO are in the US illegally but don’t have serious criminal records could be shielded from deportation under a policy change being weighed by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.
The change, if adopted following a review ordered by President Barack Obama, could limit removals of immigrants of any nationality who have little or no criminal record but have committed repeat immigration violations such as re-entering the country illegally after having been deported, or failing to comply with a deportation order.
The possible move, confirmed by two people with knowledge of the review, would fall short of the sweeping changes sought by activists.
Illegals
They want Obama to expand a two-year-old program that grants work permits to certain immigrants brought here illegally as children to include other groups, such as the parents of any children born in the US.
John Sandweg, who until February served as acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said he had promoted the policy change for immigrants without serious criminal records before his departure and said it was being weighed by Johnson.
An immigration advocate who has discussed the review with the administration also confirmed the change was under consideration. The advocate spoke on condition of anonymity because the proceedings are confidential.
“Any report of specific considerations at this time would be premature,” Clark Stevens, a spokesman for the Homeland Security Department, said yesterday.
Stevens said Johnson “has undergone a very rigorous and inclusive process to best inform the review,” including seeking input from people within DHS as well as lawmakers of both parties and other stakeholders.
The approach outlined by Sandweg and the immigration advocate would change the existing priority categories that now include immigrants who have re-entered the country after having been deported previously, and those who are fugitives from immigration proceedings. Such people would be taken off the priority list.
Crimes
The remaining priority categories focus on recent border-crossers and immigrants who pose a danger to national security or public safety or who have been convicted of crimes. Some of those categories might also be refined or changed, and others could be added.
“The time had come to focus ICE’s efforts exclusively on public safety and national security,” Sandweg said in explaining why he pushed for the change. He estimated that some 20,000 deported immigrants fell into the categories in question last year.
The potential changes come as Johnson proceeds with a review ordered by Obama on how to make deportation policy more humane.
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I remember the irish media had me giving every white haired man the beady eye before he was caught
i watched a programme on him and his gang! whitey killed anyone who he suspected on being an informer, he always preached about loyalty! He was himself an informer for the FBI.
Seems like a nice old guy. Can’t imagine him doing anything he’s being accused of.
Champion & Hero
@ lump
If your into the sort of person who imports drugs , sells them , kills people, intimidates , extorts business owners and is giving the heads up by the FBI I can understand how he is a hero to you
coming from a person who spent considerable years in the states he is a embarrassment to the Irish community just ask anyone in the wood side/sunny side end of queens NY they will tell you he is a w****r
Pleading the 5th
He was a FBI rat I wonder if they told him keep that shut
Correction by fagan
You actually have to take the stand before you plead the 5 th
All else I said I stand by
The FBI claimed he was a rat. Very easy to do and he on the run. They made it up
@ Liam
Ffs son the dogs in the street knows the connection between him& the Feds
After all the defence witnesses were slammed by the prosecution last week.
Ah woodside, is Sean Og’s still there.
@ James
Home 10 years now couldn’t tell ya
To be honest all I can remember is the 7 train lol
@ James
Do remember 5 am going for a fry in the stop in down from dillons pub before the block burned down
Had the Morrison but jaysus we built that city in our droves during the 90′s
Awful headline, he doesn’t have to testify, that’s absolutely his right under American law, and it can’t be used against him.
Obviously juries do hold it against the accused, and the media tend to do the same, as they have done nothing this case.
It’s not an awful headline, what the hell are you on about you plank, everyone knows you don’t have to take the stand when you are an accused, that’s not just confined to American law.. It’s a valid headline given what bugler is accused of so don’t let on you know more about law than other folk cause you haven’t a clue
Embarrassment to the Irish ! Our politicians do that for us, we don’t need a yank to do it for us.
Moral dilemma; he cannot accept to be seen as a rat, yet he misses out on immunity!
Probably important to point out the Jeremiah O’Sullivan was not just any US Attorney – but the US Attorney General & Head of Strikeforce
Got what he deserves. Sk**.
I have had an opportunity living there and meeting allot of folks of his time, South Boston is an amazing place with the shamrock in pride but the silence in Southy was because of this man in a very dangerous times with gangs on every side of it and funny they say the Robin Hood of Southy weird
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