Recent Immigration Law Changes

In America's continuing moral, legal and sociopolitical dilemma over the issue of deportationborder security

Still, the practical applications of the pursuit of violators of criminal immigration law must be considered when putting a plan into action. Supposed aggressive tendencies of prosecuting Homeland Security agents and the sympathies of Mexican, Latin and Hispanic voters were all likely influences on immigration law changes which went into effect last year that affected ICE operation. These immigration law changes affected the Memorandums of Agreement as they relate to the Immigration and Naturalization Act. Concerning tangible changes to the practices of border agents and local law enforcement as they enforce criminal immigration law, the Obama administration's immigration law changes required the prosecution of criminal immigrants under due process of law, limited actions of deportation to major offenders of criminal law and shone a spotlight on local police organizations.

These immigration law changes are subject to polarizing debate that all too often neatly correlates with an individual's overall political outlook. The 2009 revisions to the Memorandums of Agreement that impact the way criminal immigration law is enforced may have been an attempt at bringing border patrols closer to the middle of the spectrum. Yet opponents of Obama and this new policy would probably insist that these immigration law changes are too liberal. By catching and releasing criminal aliens who have violated the law, some civil liberties may be preserved, but there is a risk that re-releases may endanger the safety and lives of legal citizens.