--- title: "Immigration's Week in Review: December 16-20" description: In case you weren't keeping up with U.S. immigration news this week, here were the big topics in late December 2013. image: https://info.envoyglobal.com/hs-fs/file-3907227575-jpg/blog-files/jeh-johnson-immigration-819x1024.jpg --- [![Envoy Global company logo](https://info.envoyglobal.com/hs-fs/hubfs/eg_logo%20_2000.png?width=2000&height=218&name=eg_logo%20_2000.png "Envoy Global company logo")](https://www.envoyglobal.com/) # 2015 Old Blog # Immigration's Week in Review: December 16-20 Posted by [admin](https://info.envoyglobal.com/blog-old-test/author/admin) on Dec 20, 2013 9:57:57 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) ***In case you weren't keeping up with U.S. immigration news this week, here were the big topics:*** [![jeh-johnson-immigration](https://info.envoyglobal.com/hs-fs/file-3907227575-jpg/blog-files/jeh-johnson-immigration-819x1024.jpg?width=144&height=180&name=jeh-johnson-immigration-819x1024.jpg)](https://info.envoyglobal.com/hs-fs/file-3907227575-jpg/blog-files/jeh-johnson-immigration-819x1024.jpg)On Monday Jeh Johnson (left) was confirmed as the new secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Friday, USCIS director Alejandro Mayorkas [was appointed](http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/alejandro-mayorkas-department-of-homeland-security-101382.html) deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Wednesday, Florida's Miami-Dade county [announced](http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/12/18/3826317/miami-dade-plans-to-stop-paying.html) it would no longer house detained undocumented immigrants on behalf of the federal government, citing financial and humanitarian issues. Thursday ICE released its [year-end report](https://info.envoyglobal.com/ice-immigrant-deportations-2013/) on deportations, which showed the annual number immigrants removed from the U.S. in 2013 (368,644 to be exact) dropped for the first time since Obama took office. Almost 2 million immigrants have been deported during his administration. That same day, PewResearch released their [survey results](http://www.pewhispanic.org/2013/12/19/on-immigration-policy-deportation-relief-seen-as-more-important-than-citizenship/) showing that Hispanic Americans overwhelmingly favor relief from deportations for undocumented immigrants over a path to citizenship. New DHS secretary Johnson has already gone on record in one of his first statements on immigration to say he thinks keeping deportation quotas for ICE isn’t “[a good idea.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/18/jeh-johnson-deportation_n_4468241.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=3163944)” Thursday evening [New Jersey](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/nyregion/christie-agrees-to-in-state-tuition-for-undocumented-immigrants.html) became the newest state to officially grant in-state tuition to its undocumented students. Today Rep. 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