Two Brazilian students in Boston received a stay of deportation proceedings, a sign that the Obama administration has been implementing a federal directive issued back in June, 2011, according to a report in The Boston Globe.
The director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement urged federal immigration officials to "regularly" use their discretion to keep low-priority deportation cases, such as those involving students, the elderly, and other immigrants, from clogging up the system. The goal of the directive is to give the system an opportunity to deport convicted criminals and other high-priority cases more efficiently.
Homeland Security announced that immigration agents and prosecutors would undergo prosecutorial discretion training by January, 13, 2012.
The Boston Globe reported that "there are approximately 300,000 cases pending in immigration court nationwide and more than 8,000 in the Boston court, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University."
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