Drudge: OBAMA TO DEFY COURT ON AMNESTY

A newly leaked internal DHS memorandum produced for an off-the-record agency conclave reveals that the Obama administration is actively planning to circumvent a federal court injunction that suspended part of last November’s deferral-based amnesty initiative. The document, apparently prepared as follow-up from a DHS “Regulations Retreat” last summer, appears sure to re-ignite concerns in Congress as well as federal judges in the Fifth Circuit. The Administration has already been criticized from the bench for handing out work permits to hundreds of thousands of deferred action beneficiaries, in direct violation of a district court’s order. With the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals deciding any day now whether to deny the Administration’s request to reverse that injunction, this public leak has come at a critical juncture for U.S. enforcement policy.

Last June, four months after Texas federal judge Andrew Hanen’s order to freeze President’s DAPA and Expanded DACA programs—disclosure: the Immigration Reform Law Institute has filed briefs in these cases—DHS’s immigration policy makers apparently held a “Regulations Retreat” to discuss “different options” for “open market Employment Authorization Document (EAD) regulatory changes.” EAD is the statutory term for work permits. From a memo recording these discussions, we now know that the Obama DHS has, rather than pausing to allow the courts to assess the constitutionality of its enforcement nullification initiatives, been gearing up to roll out one or more of four plans drawn up at the meeting, each one designed to provide EADs to millions of nonimmigrants, including those lawfully present and visa overstayers, crippling the actual employment-based visa system on the federal statute-book.

The internal memo reveals four options of varying expansiveness, with option 1 providing EADs to “all individuals living in the United States”, including illegal aliens, visa-overstayers, and H-1B guest-workers, while option 4 provides EADs only to those on certain unexpired non-immigrant visas. Giving EADs to any of the covered individuals, however, is in direct violation of Congress’s Immigration & Nationality Act and works to dramatically subvert our carefully wrought visa system.
As mentioned, the first plan the memo discusses basically entails giving EADs to anyone physically present in the country who until now has been prohibited from getting one. A major positive to this option, the memo reads, is that it would “address the needs of some of the intended deferred action population.” Although DHS doesn’t say it expressly, included here would be those 4.3 million people covered by the president’s DAPA and Expanded DACA programs whose benefits were supposed to have been halted in the Hanen decision. On top of working around the Hanen injunction, this DHS plan would also dole out unrestricted EADs to those on temporary non-immigrant visas, such as H-1B-holders (their work authorizations being tied to their employers) and another 5 to 6 million illegal aliens thus far not covered by any of the President’s deferred action amnesty programs. By claiming absolute authority to grant work authorization to any alien, regardless of status, DHS is in effect claiming it can unilaterally de-couple the 1986 IRCA work authorization statutes from the main body of U.S. visa law. While DHS must still observe the statutory requirements for issuing visas, the emerging doctrine concedes, the administration now claims unprecedented discretionary power to permit anyone inside our borders to work.

The anonymous DHS policymakers state that a positive for this option is that it “could cover a greater number of individuals.” In a strikingly conclusory bit of bureaucratese, they state that because illegal aliens working in the country “have already had the US labor market tested” it has been “demonstrat[ed] that their future employment won’t adversely affect US workers.” The labor market, in other words, has already been stress-tested through decades of foreign-labor dumping and the American working-class, which disproportionately includes minorities, working mothers, the elderly, and students, is doing just fine. Apparently, the fact that 66 million Americans and legal aliens are currently unemployed or out of the job-market was not a discussion point at the DHS “Retreat.”

Bottom line: The memo foreshadows more tactical offensives in a giant administrative amnesty for all 12 million illegal aliens who’ve broken our immigration laws (and many other laws) that will emerge before the next inaugural in January 2016. According to the authors, one negative factor for granting EADs to illegal aliens, visa-overstayers, etc., is that they’ll still “face difficulties in pursuing permanent residence due to ineligibility or being subject to unlawful presence inadmissibility for which a waiver is required.” This is in reference to the reality that an EAD isn’t a green card and that eventually the EAD-beneficiaries are supposed to apply to ‘adjust their status,’ which cannot be done without showing evidence of lawful status. But this might change, they write. The DHS “macro-level policy goal”, we’re told, is to assist individuals to stay “until they are ready and able to become immigrants.” This would seem to say that DHS, the largest federal law enforcement agency in the nation, is banking on awarding those who’ve broken our laws and violated our national sovereignty.

Will the 26 plaintiff states that have challenged the President’s DAPA program bring this memo to the Fifth Circuit’s attention, before they issue their closely-awaited decision?  If this document is indeed the cutting edge of Obama’s strategy for DHS to circumvent Judge Hanen’s injunction order, it would confirm the Administration’s bad faith and contempt both for the court and the law.

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/the-administration/258689-leaked-dhs-memo-shows-obama-might-circumvent-dapa

Why should i follow the law either?

Fuck it.

Why shouldn't he?  It's not like congress will do anything about it.

do illegals have to pay $4000 fine for not having health insurance?

So transformed.
Much transparency.

Public outcry.

The public will not tolerate The Entirety of South American pouring into our streets like Europe is doing.

Checks and balances are for suckas.

STFU,

There's cans to be picked up so get to it citizen.

Because you're afraid and GD will convince you so.

Sadly, this.

Obama does not give a shit what the public will tolerate.

Now, the Hildog/Bernie camps have to at least PRETEND to give a shit.

This will hurt them with non-commies.

IMPEACH HIM!!!!  

Repeat after me.  "No controlling legal authority"

Banana republic.

Am I supposed to be surprised ?

If he had lost the husseincare ruling in the sc , he would have defied that as well.

The law only applies to peons.

Is this not apparent to everyone yet?

If only we didn't have cowards in office afraid of being called names by the media.

LOL. Not seeing much public outry, bub. Even in areas where the last years' influx flooded the mouthbreathers' beloved government school systems past the breaking point. Nobody gives a...

Hey, that somehow reminded me of things that are more important to the average American. Did you see Taylor Swift dressed as the gay snowman? Who's on Dancing with the Stars? You got your free phone?

Who gives a fuck?  Did you hear that Derek Hough got advice from his dad prior to tonight's show?

What can Congress do about it? He controls the agencies whose duty it is to arrest him.

Can Federal Judges issue arrest warrants against those that defy their orders?

Not the fucking Kenyan, obviously.  But other high muckity mucks in DHS.

Won't happen.

The only correct answer

I hope the Patriots win the super bowl next week.



 

He has become impatient after seeing how fast Europe is being  overrun and destroyed.  Also, he doesn't have much time left, and the USA has not been destroyed yet.

Living in a day and age where you can turn the corner, pulled over for doing 2 over the limit, and have a "sudden altercation" and shot dead...

But Illegal's get subsidized and have to give nothing back. Having an American Flag shirt gets you suspended from school. Having Right Wing political Views gets you audited by the IRS.

Why care? Why worry? Would it Help?

Crank out fun switches. You're probably committing a crime doing something mundane anyway and don't even know it.

Nope

Who says we're a nation of laws and not men?

Executives orders don't work like.....ah, fuck it.

Goddamn but I find this oppressive.

another reason to vote for Trump

The King can do what he pleases

Speaker Ryan will save us

I wish that fucking cocksucker would drop dead from an aneurysm.

Name 13 Democrats who will convict or STFU

The left and msm want a repeat of Clinton impeachment. Failed 45 for perjury, 50 for Obstruction of Justice. But weren't you just a pimple face teeny bopper punk during the clinton regime.

Considering the 5th Circuit told the government not to appeal because they will not win, I guess we'll see which option the admin picks.

Ironically, the DC federal court recently ruled that the House Republican's lawsuit against Obama for abusing his executive power can proceed.

I'm under no delusion that the democrats would stand for America ahead of standing for their party.   That doesn't mean that Impeachment isn't what's called for.

This. GD is utterly retarded when it comes to how impeachment works, but it makes it easy for the fucking idiots to whine about the Republicans so they don't care.

No surprise.  This regime thrives on lawlessness.  It is at the heart of all their narratives.

Watch Republican candidates stay quiet on this both from a policy level and a legal one.

Happy to be wrong.

But, but...we gave the Republicans the House and the Senate and nobody has been hung in front of The Washington Monument!

Obama should be in jail and he's not!

It's Gowdy's fault! He's all bark and no bite!

(Is that GD enough? )

can we drag obama out of the whitehouse yet against his will?

 


they probably cannot legally prove their income......so they get it free!!

Think that's bad, just wait until the hadjis start pouring in.

 

So, will the court issue a warrant for his arrest?

That is what happens when I defy the court.

The GOPe wants amnesty as much as Obama and the dems.  Congress won't do anything about this

Then why hasn't amnesty passed? Tell us.

I almost stepped on him in the grass at the park today.

So what they are saying is this gov can do whatever it wants to and no one can do anything about it?  Isn't that the definition of tyranny?

Pouring?

Ever wake up the morning after a pipe leaked a "trickle" all night long?
A constant "trickle" leaks a ridiculous amount of water.

Sneaks up on you how much.