This blog post will discuss sequestration's role in the politics of immigration. A lot has been discussed concerning sequestration and fiscal cliffs over the last few months. The majority of those discussions has related to military cuts and other entitlements.
There is another side however. In the United States, there are droves of illegal immigrants that are detained in US prisons for a variety of reasons. Currently, the president is trying to use immigrants as a prop in the sequestration fight. Even though it is interesting that he is the one that signed the sequestration law into practice, he is using the sequestration to cause a rift in the republican party.
Typically, military cuts are used as props because it is such an important industry but President Obama recently found that the immigration issue can easily be used in politics.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-sequester-nears-immigration-detainees-are-released/2013/02/26/bc00ffba-8038-11e2-b99e-6baf4ebe42df_story.html
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