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CreativeDominant -> Its About Time... (7/17/2015 6:01:32 AM)
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Feds going door-to-door to seize illegal immigrants’ Obama amnesty approvals...
Goosed into action by an angry federal judge, federal immigration authorities will go door-to-door demanding illegal immigrants return the three-year amnesty approvals the Obama administration issued to them in defiance of a court order...
...The move comes as Homeland Security officials, fed up with slow-walking by illegal immigrants, are finally playing hardball after months of less forceful measures.
They’re scrambling to meet an end-of-month deadline set by Judge Andrew S. Hanen for recapturing thousands of three-year amnesties the department issued even after the court had entered an injunction halting the new amnesty program...
...In a new fact sheet, USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) raised the number of erroneous “Employment Authorization Documents,” or EADs, it approved from about 2,500 to 2,600 — the third time it’s boosted that estimate.
“USCIS is carefully tracking the number of returns of these invalid EADs and continues to take steps to collect the remaining cards,” the agency said.
The amnesty was supposed to be the crowning achievement in President Obama’s immigration policy. Instead, it’s been a big headache, exposing bureaucratic bungling and getting the president and his top aides ensnared in a complex court case that’s not gone his way.
Mr. Obama had been trying to expand his 2012 amnesty, which granted two-year tentative legal status and work permits to so-called Dreamers. Under his new plan, the amnesty would last for three years and would apply to millions of illegal immigrant parents...
...But Judge Hanen, in a case brought by Texas and 25 other states, ruled that Mr. Obama likely broke the law in forming his amnesty. The judge issued an injunction halting it on Feb. 16, and thought he’d nipped the entire program.
Several weeks later, however, administration lawyers admitted they’d been approving applications beginning in November, and that more than 100,000 Dreamers had been granted three-year status. Worse yet, the administration has twice come back to Judge Hanen and reported that thousands more approvals were sent even after the Feb. 16 injunction — a clear violation of the court order...
...The government fully appreciates the urgency of the situation and is proceeding with expedited remediation,” the administration’s lawyers promised Judge Hanen.
The three-year permits have already been canceled in the government’s own computer systems, and have been changed to two-year authorizations, the lawyers said.
But Judge Hanen seemed miffed that the government has not yet collected all of the erroneous amnesties, saying he detected a “cavalier attitude” from the government about its bungle.
“The government has conceded that it has directly violated this court’s order in its May 7, 2015 advisory, yet, as of today, two months have passed since the advisory and it has not remediated its own violative behavior,” the judge wrote. “That is unacceptable and, as far as the Government’s attorneys are concerned, completely unprofessional.”
For the whole story, read here:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/15/illegal-immigrants-obama-amnesty-approvals-to-be-s/?page=2
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