Posted on 02/18/2015 5:50:43 PM PST by upchuck
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, believes that the Obama administration is “counterfeiting immigration documents” under the president’s immigration plan.
Speaking to Fox News following a federal judge’s decision to temporarily halt President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration, the potential Republican presidential contender said the commander in chief is ignoring federal law.
“One of the things it points out is the president has claimed, rather absurdly, that the basis of his authority is ‘prosecutorial discretion.’ That he’s simply choosing not to prosecute 4.5 million people here illegally,” Cruz told Fox News. “But what the district court concluded, quite rightly, is they’re doing far more than that. The administration is printing work authorizations. It is affirmatively acting in contravention of federal law. Basically, what its doing is counterfeiting immigration documents, because the work authorizations its printing are directly contrary to the text of federal law. It is dangerous when the president ignores federal law.”
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen’s decision late Monday puts on hold Obama’s orders that could spare from deportation as many as 5 million people who are in the U.S. illegally.
In a memorandum accompanying his order, Hanen said the lawsuit should go forward and that the states would “suffer irreparable harm in this case” without a preliminary injunction.
“The genie would be impossible to put back into the bottle,” he wrote, adding that he agreed that legalizing the presence of millions of people is a “virtually irreversible” action.
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Disobey the order of a Federal court and you are flirting with prosecution, Barry boy.
I can see it now... nobama pleading with Holder not to prosecute him. HA!
Cruz referencing Simpson-Mazzoli?!?! And the General Dynamics contract??
GO CRUZ
Did Walker get that Mexican Consulate built in Madison yet?
Before he did his illegal amnesty for illegals, he had already been passing out work permits to ineligible people. He really is counterfeiting immigration documents.
history and the law are absolutely NOT on your side obama!
Disobey the order of a Federal court and you are flirting with prosecution, Barry boy.
There is a file at GenDyn of applicants for whom they are printing the cards. Seize it. The applicants and their addresses need to be checked against voter registration rolls all over the country. That file is also ready with Social Security. Seize it.
Burn it down, Ted.
They sure know all about counterfeiting birth certificates!
The occupant of our White House has been counterfeiting immigration documents since he printed up birth certificate to pretend he was at least on paper an American.
Why not? Nobody in power bat an eyelash about his forged documents.
“It’s interesting, (Obama) said the law is on his side. There’s at least one person who calls himself a legal scholar who disagrees, and his name is Barack Obama,” Cruz said.
“Twenty-two times President Obama has admitted he doesn’t have the authority to issue unilateral amnesty. Twenty-two times he says the constitution doesn’t allow it. He said, ‘This is not a monarchy.’ That’s his quote. And then after the last election, he said never mind and issued it anyway.”
BOOM!
The law was just judged to be NOT on your side, and what the f*** does it mean "history is on our side"
Cruz has now become the Abe Lincoln of our time. This man is who we rally to in the conservative element. They will attack his illegibility. We must shout that down. bush is an amnesty loving liberal like his dad and brother. No more bushes. CRUZ OR LOSE!!
the work authorizations it's printing are...
Can’t we just have a 4 or 8 year break from lawyers and Ivy Leaguers? I mean it’s been since Reagan....
When is Holder stepping down? I thought he was out when that black chick was replacing him?
And who has the balls to prosecute Obama? Would prosecution of a sitting President go through the DOJ? Wondering how that would work and who has the authority to do so.
The DAPA/DACA applications were to be filed today, and all the applicants have already been presented to the printers. Does General Dynamics want their own public injunction?
Injunction means STOP, and Hanen specifically said *any and all activities* on Monday. If those cards are mailed, that’s mail fraud AND contempt of court, if Jeh can’t show a STOP ORDER issued to them, he’s in contempt, too.
Book ‘em, Hanen! NOW.
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