Conservative Patriots Group

Friends,

The United States government is out of control…this memo from USCIS is an outrageous usurpation of power. This is a classic example of the Hussein regime going around Congress! As with the EPA who has said to Congress if you do not enact Cap and Trade and CO2 emissions standards “we will do it anyway”, so too has USCIS…if you do not grant amnesty to illegal’s “we will do it anyway!” DE-FACTO AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL’S!

THIS IS TYRANNY!

Laus Deo

Regards

KAFIR

The Unbeliever

LAN ASTASLEM

لن استسلم

I will not submit: “To Islam!”

Thursday, July 29, 2010

The AmnestyMemo

 [Robert VerBruggen] National Review online:

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NTk3Y2EwODQxMTBlOTE4MmI3MzUwZjBkNjkzODBhMGY=

According to an internal U.S.Citizenship and Immigration Services memo going the rounds of Capitol Hilland obtained by National Review, the agency is considering ways in which itcould enact “meaningful immigration reform absent legislative action” — that is, without the consent of the American people through a vote in Congress.

“This memorandum offers administrative relief options to . . . reduce the threat of removal for certain individuals present in the United States without authorization,” it reads.

Also: “In the absence of Comprehensive Immigration Reform, USCIS can extend benefits and/or protections to many individuals and groups by issuing new guidance and regulations, exercising discretion with regard to parole-in-place,deferred action and the issuance of Notices to Appear (NTA), and adopting significant process improvements.”

In recent weeks, Sen. Chuck Grassley and others in Congress have been pressingthe administration to disavow rumors that a de facto amnesty is in the works,including in a letter to Department of Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano. “Since the Senators first wrote to the president more than a month ago, we have not been reassured that the plans are just rumors, and we have every reason to believe that the memo is legitimate,” a Grassley spokesman tells NR. (NR contacted DHS, but aspokesman did not have a comment on the record.)

Many of the memo’s proposals are technical and fine-grained; for example, it suggests clarifying the immigration laws for “unaccompanied minors, and for victims of human trafficking, domestic violence, and other criminalactivities.” It also proposes extending the “grace period” H-1B visa holder shave between the expiration of their visa and the date they’re expected toleave the country.

With other ideas, however, USCIS is aiming big. Perhaps the most egregious suggestion is to “Increase the Use of Deferred Action.” “Deferred action,” as the memo defines it, “is an exercise of prosecutorial discretion not to pursue removal from the U.S.of a particular individual for a specific period of time.” For example, afte Hurricane Katrina, the government decided not to remove illegal immigrants who’d been affected by the disaster.

The memo claims that there are no limits to USCIS’s ability to use deferred action, but warns that using this power indiscriminately would be“controversial, not to mention expensive.” The memo suggests using deferred action to exempt “particular groups” from removal — such as the illegal-immigrant high-school graduates who would fall under the DREAM Act (ameasure that has been shot down repeatedly in Congress). The memo claims that the DREAM Act would cover “an estimated 50,000” individuals, though as many as 65,000 illegalimmigrants graduate high school every year in the U.S.

In the immediate wake of the court decision blocking the Arizona immigration law yesterday, the memo is sure to create controversy — and the sense that the administration is bent on preserving and extending the nation’s de facto amnesty!