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<blockquote data-quote="roadrunner2012" data-source="post: 1212385" data-attributes="member: 40736">No, that&#039;s not what he&#039;s said. Let me repeat from the other thread:The Obama administration received similar criticism when it circulated a <a href="http://www.ice.gov/doclib/secure-communities/pdf/prosecutorial-discretion-memo.pdf" target="_blank">2011 memo</a>&nbsp; advising federal immigration law enforcement officials to prioritize&nbsp; criminal immigrants for deportation proceedings. Still, in the months&nbsp; that followed, the government deported numerous <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/06/16/2164731/broken-immigration-system-is-leaving-thousands-of-children-fatherless/" target="_blank">low-priority</a> undocumented parents. Between 2010 to 2012, a record-breaking <a href="http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/12/us_deports_more_than_200k_parents.html" target="_blank">205,000 parents</a> of U.S. citizen children were deported.Friday’s directive, however, could help the thousands of children of undocumented immigrants who are in <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/06/05/2103651/over-1300-immigrant-children-spent-a-combined-36598-days-in-adult-detention-facilities/" target="_blank">adult detention facilities</a> while their parents undergo deportation proceedings.These children are legal US citizens under current law.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="roadrunner2012, post: 1212385, member: 40736"] No, that's not what he's said. Let me repeat from the other thread: [I]The Obama administration received similar criticism when it circulated a [URL="http://www.ice.gov/doclib/secure-communities/pdf/prosecutorial-discretion-memo.pdf"]2011 memo[/URL] advising federal immigration law enforcement officials to prioritize criminal immigrants for deportation proceedings. Still, in the months that followed, the government deported numerous [URL="http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/06/16/2164731/broken-immigration-system-is-leaving-thousands-of-children-fatherless/"]low-priority[/URL] undocumented parents. Between 2010 to 2012, a record-breaking [URL="http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/12/us_deports_more_than_200k_parents.html"]205,000 parents[/URL] of U.S. citizen children were deported. [/I] [B][I]Friday’s directive, however, could help the thousands of children of undocumented immigrants who are in [URL="http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/06/05/2103651/over-1300-immigrant-children-spent-a-combined-36598-days-in-adult-detention-facilities/"]adult detention facilities[/URL] while their parents undergo deportation proceedings[/I][/B]. [SIZE=3][B]These children are legal US citizens under current law.[/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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