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DHS To Grant Illegal Aliens “Unlawful Presence Waivers”
Judicial Watch ^ | April 2, 2012

Posted on 04/03/2012 2:50:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; dhsillegalwaivers; illegalaliens; illegalimmigration; illegalwaivers; immigration; obama
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All that would be needed is to have some of them either Iranian or Al Qaeda operatives to do harm. That would bring down DHS and the DOJ and Obamalamadingdong.


21 posted on 04/03/2012 3:50:15 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Talent Without Ambition Is Sad - Ambition Without Talent Is Worse)
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To: Diogenesis

He’s puttin’ thousands of Coyote’s out of jobs.....


22 posted on 04/03/2012 3:51:13 PM PDT by traditional1 (Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
and America takes another one in the........


23 posted on 04/03/2012 3:54:17 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: jaz.357

It’s hard for him to drive to the liquor store without a license? LOL.


24 posted on 04/03/2012 4:15:16 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Link to the Federal Register:

https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2012/04/02/2012-7698/provisional-unlawful-presence-waivers-of-inadmissibility-for-certain-immediate-relatives

For those who don’t like this Proposed Rule, comments are open until 6/1/12. Here you can state your reasoned case and encourage all others to do so as a matter of public record.

Hint: You can also see who else does the same thing thereby finding out who the “opposition” is.


25 posted on 04/03/2012 4:21:39 PM PDT by NoNAIS (Yet another Government program not needed.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS IS ABOUT, FOLKS.

This is to get HISPANICS fired up and angry over the Republican Response to it, getting them to the poles to vote OBAMA in November.

First women, then blacks, now Hispanics.

THEY HAVE BEEN PLANNING FOR THIS A LONG TIME, and I’ve been warning about almost as long.


26 posted on 04/03/2012 6:20:14 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: Diogenesis

First, DHS To Grant Illegal Aliens “Unlawful Presence Waivers”

and then this:

Online graphic warns of al-Qaida return to NYC: http://news.yahoo.com/online-graphic-warns-al-qaida-return-nyc-003055030.html

WHOSE SIDE IS THIS GOVERNMENT ON?


27 posted on 04/03/2012 7:10:05 PM PDT by greenhornet68
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