UC Law expert discusses new administration’s immigration plans
UC Law’s Julie Leftwich, Cincinnati Enquirer reporter Dan Horn and Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones joined Cincinnati Edition’s Lucy May to discuss the potential ramifications of allowing private companies to participate in a plan by the Trump administration to deport immigrants in the United States without proper authorization.
Whether those deportations will affect any immigrant without proper authorization or just immigrants who have committed criminal acts in the U.S. could determine the scale of a government-backed deportation plan.
Leftwich, director of international peace security initiatives at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, says ‘a very small portion’ in relation to the number of immigrants in the U.S. have committed criminal acts.
She says about 10% of people in deportation proceedings have some kind of criminal conviction which is only about 4% of the overall 11 million undocumented people in the U.S.
The National Conference of State Legislatures reports that 1 in 3 American adults or 77 million people have criminal convictions.
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