Kimberly Dvorak from The Examiner reports that the Obama Administration ignored multiple warnings by Border Patrol Agents and local police that said a wilderness reserve plan would result in national security breaches and deaths.
With the baseball post-season in full swing, let's just say that the following eight U.S. Representatives are the ACES of the Democratic team in Congress when it comes to giving priority to American workers over illegal foreign workers and over bringing in new immigrant workers.
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck announced his officers would no longer hold or turn over to federal authorities illegal aliens that have been arrested in certain nonviolent misdemeanors.
CNS News reports that President Obama will take part in an Oct. 8 ceremony establishing a national monument honoring the late Cesar Chavez, the founder of the United Farm Workers union. What’s ironic about Obama’s gesture is that he will likely compare Chavez’ struggle for farm worker rights to the movement to bestow rights (and citizenship) on illegal aliens when Chavez was, in fact, an adamant opponent of illegal immigration.
Under the Obama Administration, immigrants have fared better at finding jobs than the native born. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data indicate that as of August 2012, over 1.7 million immigrants found jobs during Obama’s term while only 418,000 native-born Americans did.
The state of Arizona is appealing a judge's decision from earlier this month that ruled that a provision in the state's illegal immigration enforcement law that makes it a crime to harbor illegal aliens is unconstitutional. The provision makes it a crime to transport, shield, or harbor an illegal alien within Arizona's borders, but federal district judge Susan Bolton barred the provision during her Sept. 5th ruling.
As Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Lamar Smith has been with his criticism of the Obama administration's claims that its deported a record number of illegal aliens in recent years. He relaunched that criticism on Wednesday with an op-ed in the Washington Times. Rep. Smith says documents that he has obtained show that the administration has inflated its deportation numbers by more than 140,000 over the last two years.
The mainstream media tuned in when amnesty advocates worried about identity thieves and frauds being left out of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. But since USCIS clarified that it does not want to know about those felony crimes, the press has been silent.
The Obama Administration has decided that illegal-alien participants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will not be eligible for coverage under the health care reform law. Administration officials also informed states that the participants are not eligible for Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
A group of forty former world leaders, including President Bill Clinton and South Africa's President Nelson Mandela, have sounded the alarm on population growth and water scarcity, according to Reuters ("Twenty more "Niles" needed to feed growing population - leaders"). The subject is famililar to Clinton who in 1993 established a Council on Sustainable Development. One of the council's objectives was to chart a path towards the stabilization of U.S. population. Among the immigration-related recommendations . . .
A new poll conducted by The Albuquerque Journal found that 71% of New Mexico voters oppose the state's law that allows illegal aliens to get a driver's license. The paper found major opposition to the law across all ethnic groups, and only 21% of voters support the law. New Mexico passed a law that allows illegal aliens to get a driver's license in 2003.
Oh, how things have changed in just a few years. Today, the House of Representatives approved, with almost unanimous support, a bill that extends E-Verify for another 3 years. The electronic employment verification program, which NumbersUSA believes would have the biggest impact in ending the flow of illegal immigration to the United States, is set to expire at the end of the month, but, now that it's passed through both chambers of Congress, we fully expect Pres. Obama to sign the extension into law.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Arizona SB 1070 case has cleared the way for lower courts to resume cases involving other state immigration enforcement laws. Action is now pending in the Alabama, Indiana, and Georgia cases.
This just in from the Associated Press . . .
Approximately 72,000 illegal aliens have applied for amnesty under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program since USCIS began accepting applications on August 15th. The agency approved a stay of deportation for the first batch of applicants on September 10th.
The Los Angeles City Council recently voted to consider a proposal that would turn a library card into a form of ID that illegal-alien residents can use. The card under consideration would enable illegal aliens to open or access bank accounts and sign up for city services.
A report from the Insurance Research Council has found no correlation between a law in New Mexico that allows illegal aliens to receive a driver's license and the number of uninsured motorists on the road. Supporters of state laws that would issue driver's licenses to illegal aliens say it would increase the number of insured motorists, but the study found that the number of uninsured motorists in New Mexico from the time just before the state passed its law and the present are about the same.
U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton denied a request by pro-illegal alien groups to block implementation of an Arizona law that requires police, after a lawful stop and when practicable, to check the immigration status of suspected illegal aliens. Bolton gave Arizona and the U.S. Department of Justice ten days to work out the wording of the order that will officially lift her prior injunction on the law.
Rep. Steve King, who also serves as the vice chair for the House Immigration Subcommittee, has extended his support to a group of 10 ICE agents who filed a lawsuit against DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and ICE Director John Morton over the issue of deferred action. The complaint, filed by the agents two weeks ago, charges that the "Morton Memo" issued in 2011 and the DREAM Directive issued in 2012 requires ICE agents to break their oath or office and violate federal immigration laws as passed by Congress.
Federal prosecutors announced that 14 defendants are accused of running a fraud scheme that supplied more than 3,500 Missouri driver’s licenses to illegal aliens across the nation. The scheme, which sought licenses from a St. Joseph, Missouri facility between November 2009 and January 2012, allegedly made more than $5 million.
Rep. Duncan Hunter is drafting legislation that would deny funding to states that issue driver's licenses to illegal aliens who benefit from the Obama Administration's amnesty for young illegal aliens. In Rep. Hunter's home state, California, the state legislature has approved a measure that would allow illegal aliens who receive deferred action from the federal government to receive a driver's license.
Prior to its recess the California legislature cleared a bill that would give illegal aliens access to driver's licenses if they obtain deferred-action status under the Obama Administration’s executive amnesty. Pro-illegal alien legislators also attempted to pass a measure that would have given illegal aliens “safe harbor” in California but ran out of time.
NumbersUSA president Roy Beck appeared on Neil Cavuto's "Your World" on Thursday, August 23, 2012. Roy discussed the lawsuit filed by a group of 10 ICE agents against DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and ICE Director John Morton. NumbersUSA is underwriting the lawsuit.
The Obama Administration justified its June 15, 2012 directive that allows illegal aliens who meet certain criteria to receive deferred action and work permits by its record level of deportations. The directive is the subject of the recent lawsuit filed by a group of 10 ICE agents and officers against DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and ICE Director John Morton. But House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith says the Administration is "cooking the books" in reporting its deportation figures.
The lawsuit is funded by NumbersUSA, a group that proposes lower levels of legal and illegal immigration.http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-08-23/ICE-lawsuit-deport/57255220/1
By Alan Gomez in USA Today
Roy Beck of NumbersUSA, the pro-legal immigration organization that is underwriting the ICE agents’ lawsuit, said the Obama administration’s immigration policies are harming U.S. workers.
"Any threat of harm to our nation's immigration officers for enforcing the law is a threat against the livelihoods of average American workers," Beck said. "Congress passes laws to determine how many and which citizens of other countries are allowed to enter U.S. job markets to compete with American workers.
Congressman Louie Gohmert talks with Fox & Friends about recent news that several Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents filed a lawsuit in Texas against the Obama administration's amnesty program.
Numbers USA, which advocates for reduced immigration and opposes deferred deportation, is paying the legal fees for the agents. The group and many Republicans have criticized the program as a backdoor to amnesty.http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/08/23/159926481/immigration-employees-file-suit-against-obamas-new-immigration-policy
By Corey Dade in NPR
Kris Kobach is the lead attorney in today’s lawsuit and Numbers USA is underwriting the effort.http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/314833/suing-stop-obama-amnesty-mark-krikorian
By Mark Krikorian in The National Review Online
Numbers USA, a group that advocates for reduction of immigration, is funding the lawsuit on behalf of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents opposed to current policy. The suit goes after two key Obama policies on immigration: prosecutorial discretion to focus on criminals and repeat offenders, as well as deferred action for undocumented young people.
Numbers USA President Roy Beck said he would like to see Romney come out and say he will end the policy -- so far the candidate has refused to say how he would handle deferred action if he became president.
All summer, citizens have been crying out, 'Why doesn't somebody take this to court!' over Janet Napolitano's Dream amnesty directive. We at NumbersUSA have been looking for a way ever since the Department of Homeland Security Secretary issued her amnesty order on June 15.
WELL, THIS MORNING, ICE AGENTS CAME THROUGH, FILING A KEY SUIT TO PROTECT THEMSELVES -- AND FOR THE SAKE OF ALL AMERICANS!
And I am extremely pleased that NumbersUSA and its on-line activists have been and will be playing a crucial role in this.
Ten officers and agents for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) including ICE Agents Union President Chris Crane, today filed a lawsuit against Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton challenging the Obama Administration’s deferred action Directive and associated Prosecutorial Discretion Memorandum that prevent ICE officers, employees, and agents from fulfilling their sworn oath to uphold the law and defend the US Constitution.
On August 23, 2012, a group of 10 ICE agents and officers, led by ICE Council president Chris Crane, filed suit against DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and ICE Director John Morton seeking an injunction against the Napolitano Directive of June 15, 2012. The Directive orders ICE agents to violate federal immigration laws or face adverse employment action. Kris Kobach is representing the ICE agents and officers, and NumbersUSA is providing financial assistance.
A number of U.S. Senators and Representatives have shown support for the 10 ICE agents who have filed a lawsuit against DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and ICE Director John Morton. In the suit, the agents charge that a department policy issued by Dir. Morton in August 2011 and the DREAM Directive issued by Sec. Napolitano on June 15, 2012 require ICE agents to violate immigration laws or face adverse employment action.
On August 23, 2012, a group of 10 ICE agents and officers, led by ICE Council president Chris Crane, filed suit against DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and ICE Director John Morton seeking an injunction against the Napolitano Directive of June 15, 2012. FOX News broke the story shortly after 12 p.m. on Thursday. The lawsuit has been filed in the District Court for the Northern District of Texas, which is in the 5th Circuit.
In rulings issued yesterday, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Alabama and Georgia are likely to prevail in cases involving laws that allow police to check the immigration status of certain people suspected of crimes. The court also reversed a lower-court ruling that blocked an Alabama law prohibiting illegal aliens from conducting business transactions with the state and its local governments.
After calling on the public to support their efforts through an on-line petition, the officers of the union representing federal immigration agents have stepped up their attacks on the Administration's nullification of immigration laws. The union officers say ICE Agents nationwide "are now under threat of disciplinary action, up to and including the loss of their jobs and retirements, simply for attempting to enforce federal laws."
Judicial Watch has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security requesting documents, under the Freedom of Information Act, regarding the Executive Amnesty that went into effect on August 15. The policy, announced in June, allows illegal aliens who came to the United States before the age of 16, have maintained continuous residence, are 30 years of age or younger, and attend school or hold a high school diploma to receive deferred action and a work permit. An estimated 1.8 million illegal aliens are likely to qualify.
It shouldn't be surprising, but it IS reassuring that a union has stepped forward to try to slow down the Obama Administration's increasingly brazen unilateral decisions to ignore -- and even violate -- immigration laws. Earlier today, the union posted a petition on its website that challenges the Administration. And it has asked American citizens to sign the petition to back up federal employees who feel like they should enforce the immigration laws passed by Congress.
The Department of Homeland Security tomorrow will begin accepting applications from illegal immigrants seeking to benefit from the President’s amnesty program. On June 15, President Obama announced that his Administration will stop deporting and begin giving work permits to illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) criticized the implementation of the Obama administration’s amnesty program.
The U.S. Department of Justice weighed in on a case before the California Supreme Court in which an illegal alien is requesting permission to obtain a law license and practice law. In a brief to the court, Justice attorneys said federal law prohibits giving public benefits, such as a bar license, to an "unlawfully present alien."
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals this week affirmed the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Arizona’s SB 1070 law and sent the case to a federal district court for further consideration. If the case survives a last-minute challenge by open-border groups, Arizona could be authorized to implement for the first time a provision that requires police, after a lawful stop, to check the immigration status of suspected illegal aliens.
IRS supervisors reportedly ignored employees who warned against possible tax fraud being committed by illegal aliens. Earlier this year. WTHR in Indianapolis did an investigative report exposing a loophole that allows illegal aliens to request Individual Tax Identification Numbers (ITIN) that can then be used to claim the child tax credit on their income tax forms. The IRS currently pays out $6.8 billion in refunds to tax filers using ITINs.
