Without notice, USCIS has been rejecting requests to defer deportations, except from certain military members and veterans, and referring applications to ICE.
, reserved for immigrants with health conditions whose lives would be endangered if they were deported.
"USCIS field offices will no longer consider nonmilitary requests for deferred action, to instead focus agency resources on faithfully administering our nation’s lawful immigration system," an agency spokesperson said in a statement. "This is completely unprecedented. Deferred action has been a tool used for people falling through the cracks for decades,” Renison said.
The spokesman for USCIS said handing the responsibility of deferred action review to ICE"does not mean the end of deferred action."
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