VER PARA CREER ...Obama’s uncle tests immigration policies

President Barack Obama’s Kenyan uncle was arrested for drunk driving and remains in custody on an immigration detainer. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, however, declined to comment this morning on whether the president’s uncle will be released because of the department’s new enforcement guidelines.
Obama’s uncle, Onyango Obama, is the half-brother of the president’s late father. ”His immigration status couldn’t immediately be confirmed, but such orders [immigration detainers] are generally reserved for people living in the country illegally,” according to the Associated Press.
“I know that his uncle has been picked up, but I don’t know the facts of the case,” Napolitano said at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. “I can’t comment on the specific case … I don’t really know about it.”
In the last two months, officials at the Department of Homeland Security have effectively stopped deporting illegal immigrants unless the border-violators have also broken additional laws.
Border security officials are now developing a list of criminal offenses that would be deemed too minor to trigger deportation proceedings against illegal immigrants, explained Napolitano.
This new policy has spurred complaints from pro-enforcement groups, such as the Center for Immigration Studies. (RELATED: Obama routinely bypasses Congress, conservatives say)
Illegal immigrants have already violated the border law, and minor offenses can be a sign of criminal intentions, say these advocates. For example, according Mark Krikorian, the center’s executive director, three illegal immigrants from Albania were among six immigrant Islamists who prepared an attack on Fort Dix in 2007. The plotters were stopped by traffic police 75 times in the years before their arrests, but were never deported, he said.
“What will DHS’s explanation be when one of the illegal aliens reported to it by police — but whom DHS ordered released [under the new guidelines] — goes on ...