Immigration Enforcement Policies, Stop Sanctuary Cities Act, Denaturaliz...

Immigration Enforcement Policies:
• Options available to attorneys for individuals that have been picked up by ICE.
• Utilizing Memorandum to release immigrant from Ice custody.
• ICE may utilize discretion to follow Memorandum based on the circumstances of each individual case.
• Small adjustments being made with immigration policies to benefit illegal immigrants such as DACA, Provisional Waivers, and other administrative changes in processing various applications.
Stop Sanctuary Cities Act (Bill in congress):
• Certain number of cities with issues between federal law enforcement and state law enforcement.
• Federal government wants cities to assist enforce federal immigration laws.
• Sanctuary cities are cities that are coordinating with communities to root out the evil doers with the cooperation of illegal immigrants. Therefore enforcement is a lower priority.
• 287(g) program: a push to make cities enforce Federal immigration guidelines. Cities signed the agreement, but enforcement was not plausible.
Priorities Memorandum:
• Terrorists are priority number 1.
• Individuals with serious crimes are priority number 2.
• Individuals with non-serious crimes are priority number 3.
• Focus should be on the serious law violators, and proceed accordingly.
• The law states that immigration violators should be deported, however, the Priority Memorandum states that despite all immigration violators be deported, the deportations should be prioritized in accordance with the available resources.
• Utilization of Policy Memorandum to obtain relief for various individuals who are being targeted by ICE.
Denaturalization based on findings of fraud:
• Denaturalization generally does not happen unless the fraud that was committed concealed information related to national security such as being a member of a terrorist organization, or being a member of the Nazi party.
• The government may not approve the petition of a family member if the government realizes that the petitioner committed fraud in order to obtain citizenship.
• Individuals who apply for citizenship and are found to have committed fraud to obtain their green card, may have their citizenship denied, and if the fraud was serious in nature, the individual may be subject to removal proceedings and deportation.