The Obama administration says it has recovered or terminated the 2,600 three-year amnesty documents issued in violation of a district court injunction. According to a Justice Department filing with the court, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has replaced the erroneously
Last week, Jackie Calmes, national correspondent for the New York Times and Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School, released a study decrying conservative media’s influence on the direction of the Republican Party.
The Obama administration is again warning illegal immigrants who were issued three-year work permits — in violation of a court order — to return those documents immediately or else find their deferred status terminated.
Sen. Mike Lee’s attempt to force a vote in the Senate that would defund Planned Parenthood was blocked Sunday by some of his Republican colleagues.
The MPI immigration report, issued Thursday, highlights the impact of the new policy guidance on immigration enforcement on the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. — namely the Obama administration’s move to replace the Secure Communities program with the Priority Enforcement Program (PEP).
In a proposed rule from the Department of Homeland Security, the administration seeks to expand on a 2013 rule— which allowed illegal immigrants with a U.S. citizen spouse or parent to apply for a waiver in the U.S. from the requirement that they return to their home countries for three to 10 years to apply for legal status, if they could prove “extreme hardship.”
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials will begin visiting Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) beneficiaries who received the illegal three-year work permits and have not yet returned them.
The Fifth Circuit is considering the Obama administration appeal of a district judge’s ruling halting the executive amnesty programs from moving forward — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA).
Proponents of Obama’s executive amnesty traveled to New Orleans and were in full-force on courthouse steps this morning. Oral arguments were held at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on whether the Court will reverse the district court’s injunction on executive amnesty. Pro-DACA and DAPA activists have been aggressive in protesting what they see as a right to these benefits.
“President Obama’s executive amnesty program would prompt some of the most massive changes to national immigration law in history, all without any input from Congress or the American people. Federal lawyers today even acknowledged several times that this action constitutes a ‘significant policy enactment,’” Paxton, whose state of Texas is leading the coalition, said in a statement Friday.
The Obama administration’s lawyers are expected to face an uphill battle in arguing to allow the programs to move forward. The same panel of justices who heard an earlier emergency appeal to lift the lower court’s injunction are hearing Friday’s arguments on the totality of the lower court’s ruling.
“This Court has expressed its willingness to believe that these actions were accidental and not done purposefully to violate this Court’s order. Nevertheless, it is shocked and surprised at the cavalier attitude the Government has taken with regard to its ‘efforts’ to rectify this situation,” Hanen wrote in his order.
Louisiana Governor and Republican presidential candidate Bobby Jindal wondered “What is the point of having a Republican Party?” that accepts both baseline spending and “baseline dependence” in an interview broadcast on Friday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. Jindal stated,
At a hearing last week, U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen was outraged that the matter had yet to be cleared up. “I expect you to resolve the 2,000; I’m shocked that you haven’t,” he said at a hearing in Brownsville, according to the San Antonio Express-News. “If they’re not resolved by July 31, I’m going to have to figure out what action to take.”
The panel of Fifth Circuit judges slated to consider President Obama’s executive amnesty programs include Republican appointed Judges Jennifer Walker Elrod and Jerry Smith, who ruled against the emergency stay last month. The third judge on the panel is Democratic appointee Judge Carolyn Dineen King.
“Not one dime of taxpayer funds should be used to fund actions that side step the constitution. This includes leasing buildings for the purposes of supporting his policies that would provide amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants,” John Ratcliffe says.
Would you believe that Sen. Marco Rubio was heckled by pro-amnesty for illegal alien supporters?
Last week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services confirmed to Breitbart News that it would be using the Crystal City facility in Arlington, VA, as an immigration service center and hiring new employees to that end. The multistory facility, set to be named the Potomac Service Center, would be the agency’s fifth service center.
Senate Republicans are pressing the Obama administration on its newly revealed plans to use a facility initially leased to house employees who would process executive amnesty — currently blocked by a court injunction — as a general immigration service center
The Obama administration has been instructed to put the brakes on its executive amnesty programs, but the building leased to house the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services employees who would have carried out that workload will not be sitting vacant.
Thursday Grassley revealed that whistleblowers say Abarca Torres Alvaro — arrested in February 2013 and convicted of statutory rape that October — received DACA in April 2013. “He retained DACA even after he was convicted of the crime and served prison time,” Grassley wrote in a letter to DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson dated Wednesday.
As a candidate for President of the United States, Barack Obama promised to restore balance to the Constitution, after what many argued was a period of executive overreach, infringing on civil liberties and the balance of powers. When he launched his campaign, he even referred to his past career as a “civil rights lawyer,” and a constitutional law teacher. Once in office, however, Obama expanded executive powers even further, and led a 6-year assault on judicial independence.
“I made a decision, which I think is the right one, that we should not accept applications till the legal status of this is clarified,” Obama said, admitting that although he was “frustrated” with the judge blocking his legislation, he didn’t want to put illegal immigrants at a disadvantage.
While the administration is pressing to have a court’s injunction against executive amnesty lifted, it has also put hiring plans for the programs on hold, including stopping efforts to hire up to 3,100 new employees who would have worked in a $7.8 million-a-year building in Arlington, Virginia’s Crystal City. The building is largely unused now, DHS employees report.
The House has approved legislation to prohibit the Obama administration from using funding to defend against the 26 states carrying out a legal challenge to the president’s executive amnesty.
Illegal immigrants granted executive amnesty can claim back tax credits for work they performed illegally, even if they never filed a tax return during those years, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has confirmed to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
Immigration activists say the new fees generated by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals shows the program is working and is a reason to move forward with the expansion of executive amnesty.
On a presumed private conference call with the Alabama Republican Party, where he was showcased as the “featured guest,” former Florida Governor Jeb Bush once again expressed his support for Common Core education standards and a “pathway to earned legal status” for millions of illegal aliens.
GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson reacted to Tuesday’s ruling out of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals against the federal government in upholding of the injunction to delay President Obama’s executive action on immigration.
Following a major legal blow to President Obama’s executive amnesty programs, the administration will allow the process to play out in lower courts.
A panel of the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has refused to remove an order that blocks the President from implementing his executive amnesty program, which would prevent deportations and grant work permits to millions of illegal immigrants.
One of the most vocal advocates for amnesty says he remains confident that illegal immigrants will one day be able to benefit from President Obama’s executive actions, despite the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ refusal to lift a lower court’s injunction on the programs.
Goodlatte was one of many Republican lawmakers who praised the Tuesday ruling.
“By acting unilaterally to rewrite our nation’s immigration laws, President Obama has disregarded the will of the American people and violated the Constitution. Such lawlessness must be stopped so that we preserve the separation of powers in the Constitution and protect individual liberty,” Goodlatte says.
The Department of Homeland Security is now accepting employment authorization applications for certain H-4 dependent spouses of H-1B visa holders.
A federal appeals court has upheld a district court’s injunction preventing the the Obama administration’s executive amnesty programs from moving forward.
The president’s executive amnesty is so complex and unwieldy that not even the Obama administration itself truly knows what is actually happening, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argues.
Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) said President Obama really didn’t evaluate what he could or couldn’t do” regarding his executive action on immigration during an interview with the Huffington Post released on Wednesday. Gutierrez stated, “Remember when Obama said ‘I can’t do
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is pressing the Obama administration for answers on an illegal immigrant allegedly granted executive amnesty who’s now charged with child molestation and distributing child pornography.
The liberal group’s analysis — which also claimed there is an economic benefit to DAPA — concludes by calling for 2016 presidential candidates to offer positions on executive amnesty and encouraging the government to further expand amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The Rundown With José Díaz-Balart,” Democratic National Committee chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) said it is “heartless” and “unacceptable” for Republican to go to court to fight President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty, which would have allowed upwards
