Immigration agency reverses, says it will still approve leniency for deportations - Washington Times

Immigration agency reverses, says it will still approve leniency for deportations - Washington Times:

Homeland Security announced Monday that it will once again begin approving petitions for a stay of deportation for hardship cases such as major medical problems, after being hit with a ferocious backlash when it stopped taking the cases.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it will still consider “limiting” its role, but said it will go through all the cases that were pending as of Aug. 7, which is when the decision was first made to halt deferred action for all but military families and illegal immigrant “Dreamers.”
Deferred action is a grant of a stay of deportation. It’s perhaps best known as the mechanism President Barack Obama used for his deportation amnesty for Dreamers — DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — but it’s long been a more limited power the government has had in other cases.