Former USCIS Official Blasts Obama Administration’s Enforcement Now, Enforcement Forever Approach to Immigration

In a stinging rebuke of the White House, a former Obama administration official has slammed the U.S. government for its inaction on immigration reform and tougher-than-ever enforcement. Roxana Bacon, a former top counsel for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, says that the administration has failed to act on immigration because of indifference and timidity. She published her comments in the March issue of Arizona Attorney, the state bar’s law journal.

Bacon accuses the White House and Congress of neglecting immigration, blasts the administration’s strategy of pushing hard-line enforcement ahead of reform legislation, and scolds the Department of Homeland Security for the renewed deportation of Haitians fleeing the earthquake-devastated country.  Read on.

KJ