|
|
"A comprehensive, collaborative elections resource."
|
Self-Deportation Has Few Takers
|
|---|
| Parent(s) |
Issue
|
| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Aug 12, 2008 12:48pm |
| Logged |
0
|
| Category | General |
| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Sunday, August 10, 2008 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | With a fanfare of news conferences and Spanish-language television and newspaper ads, U.S. authorities last week started giving 457,000 illegal immigrants a chance to turn themselves in without the usual threat of arrest and detention.
Three accepted.
The cold reception given to the rollout of the three-week pilot self-deportation program, called Scheduled Departure, presents an apt metaphor for the state of relations between U.S. enforcement officials and immigrant advocates in the year since Congress killed President Bush's proposed overhaul. |
| Share |
|
|
2¢
|
|
| Article | Read Full Article |
|
| Date |
Category |
Headline |
Article |
Contributor |
|
|
