Posted on 04/02/2012 1:20:22 PM PDT by jazusamo
In its quest to implement stealth amnesty, the Obama Administration is working behind the scenes to halt the deportation of certain illegal immigrants by granting them “unlawful presence waivers.”
The new measure would apply to illegal aliens who are relatives of American citizens. Here is how it would work, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announcement posted in today’s Federal Register, the daily journal of the U.S. government; the agency will grant “unlawful presence waivers” to illegal aliens who can prove they have a relative that’s a U.S. citizen.
Currently such aliens must return to their native country and request a waiver of inadmissibility in an existing overseas immigrant visa process. In other words, they must enter the U.S. legally as thousands of foreigners do on a yearly basis. Besides the obvious security issues, changing this would be like rewarding bad behavior in a child. It doesn’t make sense.
But the system often causes U.S. citizens to be separated for extended periods from their immediate relatives,” according to the DHS. The proposed changes, first announced in January, will significantly reduce the length of time U.S. citizens are separated from their loved ones while required to remain outside the United States during the current visa processing system.
The administration also claims that relaxing the rule will also “create efficiencies for both the U.S. government and most applicants.” How exactly is not listed in the Federal Register announcement, which gives the public 60 days to comment. That’s only a formality since the DHS has indicated that the change is pretty much a done deal.
This appears to be part of the Obama Administration’s bigger plan to blow off Congress by using its executive powers to grant illegal immigrants backdoor amnesty. The plan has been in the works for years and in 2010 Texas’s largest newspaper published an exposé about a then-secret DHS initiative that systematically cancelled pending deportations. The remarkable program stunned the legal profession and baffled immigration attorneys who said the government bounced their clients’ deportation even when expulsion was virtually guaranteed.
In late 2011 a mainstream newspaper obtained internal Homeland Security documents outlining “sweeping changes” in immigration enforcement that halt the deportation of illegal aliens with no criminal records. This also includes a nationwide “training program” to assure that enforcement agents and prosecuting attorneys don’t remove illegal immigrants who haven’t been convicted of crimes.
Judicial Watch has been a front runner in investigating the Obama Administration’s stealth amnesty program by pursuing DHS records concerning “deferred action” or “parole” to suspend removal proceedings against a particular group of individuals. Last spring JW sued DHS to obtain information because the agency ignored a federal public records request that dates back to July 2010.
W T F-ing F???
did they just invent these? what law provides for these to be issued?
Is he just pulling things out of his ass now?
The Democrat voter registration drive swings into high gear.
wait just a minute... Is this “The Onion?”?
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OMG IT’S NOT!!!!
Big Sis at DHS and Paraoh Obama at it again.
The turkeys been doing that since he took office.
anyone holding an ‘unlawful presence waier’ should be ineligible for Affirmative Action
Much more educated-sounding than "arrest warrant."
Yes. What can we do about it, if our representatives shrug their shoulders and collect their money?
IOW, it’s still unlawful.
Congress must move quickly to block these rules!!!!
Congress must move quickly to block these rules!!!!
Not April 1 either.
It’s a “Get out of jail FREE!!” card.
One that Americans will never get...
It’s PAST THE POINT of just being sad.
I keep hearing rumors that some of the higher ups in the military have had it UP TO THEIR EYEBALLS!
Well, all I can say is I hope for all our sakes, and our childrens, and the future of our country that come November there is a CONSTITUTIONALLY ELECTED, NATURAL BORN CITIZEN!!! on his way to the White House.
No constitutional basis for this act and no constitutional authority to ignore the law.
But those here legally are unable to renew their visas and have to make a choice between breaking the law and remaining here illegally, or going back from whence they came until they can get another visa.
Correct, but Zer0 gives not a whit about our Constitution and that’s the single most scary thing about his presidency.
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