I present a dramatization of a dialogue I call Some skepticism about the New Immigration Policy regarding the new prosecutorial discretion policy announced by the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano,  and the White House. The new policy is designed to implement a policy memorandum of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director, John Morton, dated June 17, 2011, and concerns concentrating resources on removing criminal aliens and aliens who pose national security threats while treating run of the mill undocumented aliens more…

Hurray! Another memo from ICE on Prosecutorial Discretion. Another Morton Memo by John Morton, the Director of ICE! The first big change in the memo – Mr. Morton identifies himself as ICE Director instead of an assistant secretary in the Department of Homeland Security. As they would say on the Island, Mazal Tov on your new stationery. A million journalists are filing stories going through the details of the new memo, the big news of which is that ICE may empower…

Immigration dilettantes are having a field day with the issuance of some Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) memos. Memos are policy statements of an agency directing employees how to handle certain situations. Everyone employed by someone else deals with memos. “If it gets to be over 90 degrees make sure to rest your employees 15 minutes every hour. If it gets to be over 100 degrees, send everyone home.” ICE’s memos serve to give direction to a large agency responsible…