Morton Memo: Case by case review of incoming and certain pending cases

ICE issued a memo (with two attachments) to all Chief Counsel within the agency directing ICE to immediately begin reviewing all incoming deportation cases. It also announces that Homeland Security (in conjunction with the Department of Justice) is establishing a pilot program for reviewing all pending deportation cases. This pilot program will begin in Baltimore and Denver immigration courts December 4 and will continue into January 2012. After the completion of the pilot programs, ICE will begin a nationwide review of all pending deportation cases to determine which illegal aliens it will allow to stay in the United States.