Immigrants get their hopes up as US plans to review deportation cases

Now the hard parts starts; finding out if individual immigrants qualify for the review. - - Donna Poisl

from NashuaTelegraph.com

LOS ANGELES – Hilda Jauregui and dozens of women at an Orange County, Calif., immigration detention center recently gathered to hear the news on television that the Obama administration will review thousands of deportation cases with an eye toward closing those considered “low-priority.”

“Everyone was shouting and hugging each other,” Jauregui said in a telephone interview from the James A. Musick jail facility. “One woman said ‘I’ll qualify because I’m older,’ another said she had children who were born in the country. Everyone was trying to find something positive that would make them qualify.”
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