The Obama administration announced today that it would review more than 300,000 pending deportations to focus on high-priority cases, such as illegal immigrants who have committed serious crimes.
The administration deported 393,000 people in 2010, with about half of them considered criminals, according to an Associated Press review.
Immigrant-rights groups hailed the decision as a major breakthrough that will protect illegal immigrants who were brought to the United States as children. Opponents said the new policy ignores immigration law and will allow people in the country illegally to stay so long as they do not commit serious crimes.
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