Smooth move Ex=Lax..Obama..

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   Obama halts deportation of criminals..3 dead as a result;
  http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/22/2602909/immigration-authorities-released.html
 
   Notice this part of the article (paragraphs 6&7:
 
  The episode is a black eye for U.S. authorities, who by law could not detain Dufrene indefinitely after the Obama administration ordered a temporary halt of deportations to the island nation. The deportations were halted because of the carnage wrought by Haiti’s January 2010 earthquake.
“Because of the moratorium on removals to Haiti in effect when Dufrene came into ICE custody, his removal to Haiti was not likely in the reasonably foreseeable future,”
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/22/2602909/immigration-authorities-released.html#storylink=cpy