Obama orders review of deportation law

The President of the United States, Barack Obama, demanded yesterday to the Department of Homeland Security to examine the current immigration process. The Northern country already surrounds the figure of two million deportees since the arrival of the Democratic President, such amount exceeds his predecessors, George W. Bush ad Bill Clinton.

Members of the Hispanic community as Janet Murguía, President of the National Council of La Raza, recently called Obama “deportador in chief” by the record number of deportations during his tenure.

According to Mario De Freitas, Ecuadorian lawyer and specialist in human rights,the immigration laws do not correspond to the Executive but to the legislators, but Obama can stop the deportations and extend deadlines until the process can be flexible through the laws.

The President moved his request to Democrats legislators Xavier Becerra, Luis Gutiérrez and Rubén Hinojosa, all defenders of the interests of immigrants and expressed his “deep concern” for the family separation involving deportations.

According to the data of these organizations, one in four deportees is the father or mother of a child who is a U.S. citizen, i.e., that the parents entered illegally in the country but their children were born in the United States.