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stopped him for driving without a front license plate. 'Caught up' Immigrant advocates hoped when the reviews were announced a yearago that many more illegal immigrants such as Toledo would behelped. "Be it 1 percent or 10 percent of cases closed, the results arestill tremendously disappointing," said Gabriela Villareal of theOakland-based California Immigrant Policy Center. "We still seehundreds of thousands of people who are part of our communitiescaught up in the dragnet." Republicans and other immigration control proponents believe theopposite: Too many illegal immigrants are getting a pass, they say. Having a case set aside is not a path to citizenship.Administratively closing low-priority cases puts illegal immigrantsin legal limbo -- they can stay here but not get green cards. Closing low-priority cases helps immigration agents more quicklyremove the greatest threats to public safety, Christensen said. The new approach, she said, is "dramatically changing thecomposition of the immigration courts and helping to prevent futurebacklogs." Most of the people getting reprieves are longtime U.S. residentswith family and community ties and clean records, or studentsbrought to the country when they were young. Toledo, a San LeandroHigh School graduate, came to the U.S. when he was 8 and is relatedto several U.S. citizens, from his grandfather on down. He believeshe fits the bill. ICE has been seeking to deport him to Mexico since Hayward policepulled him and his girlfriend over one afternoon in 2010 near thecollege campus. He was behind bars for several days and then taken to an AlamedaCounty jail, which handed him over to ICE. Such pickups have becomemore common since 2010, when all Bay Area counties joined thefederal Secure Communities database, which reports every arrest toimmigration agents. Record deportations The dragnet contributed to a record 396,906 deportations last year.Until recently, ICE agents and attorneys rarely made distinctionsamong deportation candidates. With the focus on discretion, ICE has closed or dismissed 4,363cases, just less than 2 percent of the total reviewed as of May 29. Almost as many -- 3,998 people -- declined offers of relief, whichcan mean they are seeking to win their immigration case with itschance at a green card and citizenship. The alternative is thelimbo of a case that always can be reopened. More than 12,000 people offered a dismissed or closed case eitherare undergoing a background check or haven't decided whether toaccept. That group brings the total percentage offered a reprieveto 9 percent, according to the new statistics. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as China Kraft Clasp Envelopes , Padded Mailing Envelopes for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Poly Mailer.
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