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OPERATION SCHEDULED DEPARTURE: New immigration strategy — Deport yourself Agency allows immigrants here illegally to avoid raids, prison by turning selves

By immigrationprof

Julie_myers_lg Bill Hing previously reported on the new ICE “self deportation” operation that soon will go into effect.  The San Antonio Express-News offers a bit more on the announcement Sunday by Julie Myers, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement who is no stranger to controversy, in an interview with a Spanish-language television network, that “Operation Scheduled Departure” will allow undocumented immigrants without criminal records a chance to literally “self-deport” by turning themselves in to immigration agents. Under the new program, undocumented immigrants will have the chance to walk into ICE offices, be processed and get a few weeks to arrange their affairs, pack their belongings and ship out of the country without being detained.

How many takers do you think there will be?  Couldn’t an undocumented immigrant do the same thing now?

Postscript;  “Shocking” headline from San Diego newspaper:  “No volunteers yet in San Diego for self-deportation.” (August 5, 2008)

KJ