Obama administration will review 300,000 illegal immigrants in deportation proceedings

The Obama administration said it will review deportation cases involving 300,000 undocumented immigrants. The administration is hoping it could find ways to help low priority offenders including the elderly, crime victims and people who lived in the U.S. since childhood stay in the United States. Although Obama administration has been very harsh on deportation proceedings in the past, this new declaration gives hope to many undocumented immigrants that there may be ways to stay.

As a Los Angeles immigration lawyer, I can hardly believe that Obama administration’s intent in such efforts is nothing other than his election campaign purposes considering the timing of this contrary action from the past.