WASHINGTON -- On Monday, in a private letter to colleagues, Obama's Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director, John Morton, revealed that he would be leaving the office by the end of July.
He is leaving his 20-year-long political career and the position, and moving to Capital One, a Fortune 500 company to be the new head of compliance department.
"I am extremely proud of what we have accomplished together during that time and look with awe on the incredible progress ICE has made as an agency," Morton wrote in his letter. "ICE has truly come of age and become an innovative, leading force in federal law enforcement."
He leaves the office with high praise from the Obama administration. Despite the criticism that his "Morton Memo" policy from 2011 granted amnesty and didn't let ICE workers do their jobs properly, deportation numbers still were at record height: up to 400,000 in 2012. During Morton's time in office, the percentage of people deported who were convicted criminals rose from 38% in 2009 to 55% in 2012.
Homeland Security claims that the administration was able to focus on convicted criminals and people who were actual threats to national security, but Chris Newman, the legal director for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, claims that the sheer number of deportations makes Obama the "deporter-in-chief" and celebrated the removal of Norton.
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