© Jorge Duenes / Reuters The Obama administration mass-deported people with no criminal record, as well as parents of US citizens, tearing apart families and local communities.
Contrary to US Barack President Obama's statements on immigration policy, his administration mass-deported people with no criminal record, as well as parents of US citizens, tearing apart families and local communities, a Human Rights Watch report found.
The
report, entitled
'I Still Need You', suggested that Obama's
promising statements on immigration enforcement policy directly contradicted his administration's actual approach towards immigrants. Prepared by HRW, it includes data specifically covering the State of California.
"We're going to keep focusing enforcement resources on actual threats to our security," Obama said in his 2014
address on what he referred to as "fixing the broken immigration system."
"Felons, not families. Criminals, not children. Gang members, not a mom who's working hard to provide for her kids," he said.
However, Obama's promise to tackle immigrants having criminal history did not stand the reality check, the HRW report found.
Forty-seven percent of people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) between October 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015 this period
had no criminal history at all.
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