Enforcement Priority: Traffic Offences and Immigration Agents

enforcement priority: The Homeland Security Department memos, signed by Secretary John Kelly, lay out that any immigrant living in the United States illegally who has been charged or convicted of any crime and even those suspected of a crime will now be an enforcement priority, according to Hamilton Spectator. Now, immigration agents, customs officers and border patrol agents have been directed to remove anyone convicted of any criminal offence. The documents represent a sweeping rewrite of the nation's immigration enforcement priorities. That could include people arrested for shop lifting or minor traffic offences. The change in enforcement priorities will require a considerable increase in resources. Homeland Security said in a fact sheet released Tuesday that any person who is in the U.S. illegally is potentially subject to deportation. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.