Rumors Continue ‘DHS May Pardon’
These are rumors and we know things can get in a wad when they are passed along. The part of the story concerning me is the efforts of the current administration to by-pass the legislative process to further their agenda. We can assume the Supreme Court in its current configuration would strike most of these acts down, but what if the Court turns activist?
This is just another reason to build from the ground up. Enough states bonding together can force the federal government to back down. We must have a coalition of states willing to force the issue of state sovereignty.
The basis for the rumors are a memo- and it does exist:
You can read the rest of the memo here:
Thursday, July 29, 2010
The Amnesty Memo [Robert VerBruggen]
According to an internal U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services memo going the rounds of Capitol Hill and obtained by National Review, the agency is considering ways in which it could 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 pressing the 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 a spokesman did not have a comment on the record.)
