John Morton, the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (USICE) hosted a press conference in Arizona to inform the federal government functioning under President Obama has removed more number of undocumented migrants than it has ever before from the nation. About 380,000 illegal migrants were subject to deportation in the last fiscal year. Of these, only one-thirds had been convicted of criminal activities. In this fiscal year, about 136,000 who are convicted of crimes have been deported. And so, a record has been made.

At the same time, it has to be noticed that most of those deported are hard working migrants only because they overstayed their visa. This also questions the effect of the change; this cannot be considered as immigration reform. The above is a clear example of the government only catching people and deporting them.

At the same time, the increase of funds to deploy more personnel at the US-Mexican border is coming from the increased visa fee for the Indian firms operating in the US. The new bill is which is to be signed by the President intends to hire more than 1,000 new security personnel, about 250 more agents for immigration and customs enforcements and another 250 officers for customs and border protection.

On the other hand, the President can actually bring about some reform to certain specific segments of immigration that require help greatly. But then it seems to take a while before some work is actually done.