Late Monday, a federal judge in Texas temporarily blocked President Obama’s November immigration actions: one gave parents of U.S. citizens and legal resident’s children a work permit and deportation relief for three years, and the other extended Obama’s 2012 program for undocumented immigrants brought here as children, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (the action got rid of age restrictions and extended the renewable program from two years to three years).
Those who qualified for the extended DACA program, among them Rosa Robles Loreto’s two children— Robles Loreto has been living in sanctuary at Southside Presbyterian Church for six months—were supposed to start sending their applications to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services tomorrow.
During an interview I had a few weeks ago with Robles Loreto’s attorney, Margo Cowan, and Southside’s the Rev. Alison Harrington, both were excited for Robles Loreto’s children, Gerardo, Jr. and José Emiliano, to apply for the program, both so that they could have protection in the country, and because they thought this might be able to help resolve Robles Loreto’s case. The two said that it made no sense to extend protection for DACA children, but not protect their parents.
Supporters of Robles Loreto and her family had been invited to a press conference tomorrow prior to dropping off her two kids’ DACA applications. That is still happening:
Please join us tomorrow when we launch the We Stand with Rosa campaign. Come to Southside at noon and get your sign. We are still hoping that Rosa’s sons will be filing their DACA applications very soon despite the fact that a judge issued an injunction on the deferred action stemming from November 20.
Another Tucson sanctuary case, Francisco Perez Cordova (who lived at St. Francis United Methodist Church for three months until he left Dec. 24), got his case closed thanks to the protection granted to parents. Perez Cordova has five U.S. citizens children, and the program, which is known as DAPA, is what allowed him to go home to his family without fearing deportation. His case is closed for now, but parents like Perez Cordova may not be able to apply for the program—applications could be sent starting mid-to-late May—if the block isn’t struck down.
Judge Andrew Hanen issued the temporary injunction to allow a coalition of 26 states, among them Arizona, to proceed with a lawsuit seeking to gut Obama’s immigration actions.
It already was announced that this decision will be appealed, and we might hear news of that as soon as later today.
The American Civil Liberties Union sent a response at midnight today and Cecillia Wang, director of the American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants’ Rights Project, had this comment:
Despite its extreme and inflammatory rhetoric, the Texas court decision does not explicitly hold that DAPA, DACA, or any other part of the federal government’s executive actions, is unconstitutional.
The decision is very narrow, holding only that the federal government may have failed to follow procedural requirements before implementing Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) and the expansion of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
While this setback is serious and should be redressed in due course, the government’s other reforms to protect civil liberties and immigrant communities — including the fundamental principle that the Department of Homeland Security may set priorities for immigration enforcement and exercise prosecutorial discretion — remain in place.
This article appears in Feb 12-18, 2015.
The Tea Party and true Conservatives has welcomed Judge Hanen’s decision because it slows and perhaps may even stop Obama’s unconstitutional executive illegal alien amnesty. But the judge’s decision, brought about by principled conservative Attorney’s General and Governors, is a desperate substitute that we welcome only because GOP establishment in Congress have failed to do the job the Framers of the Constitution predicted for them. Any block to Obama’s illegal alien Amnesty, gives all Americans a chance to speak up and stand with the Tea Party against this unconstitutional law. Just like Sen. Harry Reid’s deliberate refusal to allow any vote on just about any bill that received house approval, any legislation on the illegal alien amnesty has been held in stasis.
While millions of our own people, citizens and legalized resident are seeking a decent job, fighting to survive and trying to feed their family this president illegally overshot his authority and opened the border wide, given access to criminals. Illegal aliens are criminals. People who overstay their visa and intentionally do not return home after it expires—they are criminals. Obama has split this great nation, with his radical Liberal elected official liars and corruption that has never seen the light of day before. His liberal Democratic backers are bleeding American dry of benefits and entitlements, grants meant for the people who have paid into the system. Not for illegal aliens fraudulently stealing child tax credits in the billions of dollars, or Obama’s IRS letting illegal aliens appropriate billions of more dollars in Earned Tax Credits through the theft of jobs.
The America we live in today is not the America I once knew? Everywhere I look I see the corrosion of American principles, the loss of individual freedom, the irrational fervor of the medical establishment and the tyranny of American government that is even spying on us. Our freedoms have been slowly eroding away, as this administration no longer listens to the people and gains its acceptance by massive amounts of freebies to foreigners and to the deadbeats, who are a virus on the taxpayers.
This is not the America I knew where surveillance efforts were focused on foreign enemies rather than domestic citizens, where a citizen is not threatened or intimidated by the ‘Politically Correct Police’ and free speech is becoming a thing of the past, where veterans were honored and prominent rather than condemned and medically neglected, that won World War II and beat back a tyrannical Nazi fascist government in the name of freedom and democracy. Today, the occupied American government has become the very same tyrannical fascist bully it once sought to defeat, where health insurance was affordable–and voluntary, where doctors could practice personalized, local medicine and weren’t beholden to a stifling government system of mindless diagnosis and medication prescribing.
An America where television or radio news actually resembled the facts and wasn’t just a White House propaganda racket disguised as news, where launching a conservative non-profit to educate people about the Bible or the Bill of Rights did not get you cruelly targeted by the IRS with penalizing audits, America where newly sworn-in government representatives didn’t violate the Constitution the very next day after swearing allegiance to it, where members of Congress actually read legislation before passing it, where federal regulators used to limit the power of globalist corporations rather than conniving with them to develop their power over the People, where the US Attorney General wasn’t a gun-running criminal thug who tried to cause gun aggression in America in order to destroy the Second Amendment,
Today we have an America where a masquerading ultra left Liberal President didn’t believe he was a dictator and didn’t use the overreach of his executive orders to dictate his illegal policies to the country bypassing Congress and implementing an illegal alien amnesty.
Where is the America where being thought of as a patriot was a insignia of honor, not an accusation of being a domestic terrorist, where people used to trade hard work for honest pay instead of merely voting for whatever politician promises them the most entitlement handouts, where your vote actually counted, and where elections weren’t systematically rigged by electronic voting machines or where non-citizens are able to vote, as there is no need to show voter ID, where real truth-telling journalism was celebrated rather than condemned and awash with Marxist ideology, Most of all, I miss the America where good, honest, hard-working, truth-telling citizens didn’t have to live in constant fear of being accused, arrested, imprisoned, fined or terrorized by their own government.
It is time for GOP hierarchy—not the Tea Party Republicans who fight against their own, to put an end to the destruction on American families that Obama’s cheap labor policy national impact or Obama’s call for voters, legal and unlawful. Get ready for battle. We need to march all over Washington. Plaster our messages all over the offices of our elected officials. Get in their faces. We urge you to call your Representative and Senators (the Capitol Switchboard is 1-866-220-0044) and demand that they vote to defund Obama’s unconstitutional executive amnesty and protect American jobs for American workers. Do not suppress the pressure in fact increase it on Washington as it your nation, your employment and the shrinkage of your pay check.
So are you ready to help us stop this insanity that is costing taxpayers 538 billion dollars a year and end amnesty for illegal aliens once and for all—before the true and final destruction begins? You the American people, have ALL the power of your vote. If the Southern border stays open, with this President directives to overrun this country with foreign nationals the citizens will suffer dearly, including massive tax increases to financially support the 5 million already here and those waiting to escape poverty from around the world.
Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama issues 50-page calendar of Obama’s overreaching executive actions on immigration. Read Senator Sessions’ entire dated list here: at http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2015/02/16/
Amnesty for illegals is almost always a Republican proposal. Reagan and Bush Sr. did it, and Bush Jr. wanted to do it. Your efforts to couch being against amnesty being a conservative position proves that you don’t really know what conservatism is all about. Conservatives have always been in favor of legal and illegal immigration because it supplies cheap labor to their corporate campaign contributors, especially in the Ag sector. Also, you’re just another idiot who thinks executive orders by Democrats make them dictators, but executive actions by Republicans make them heroes. No one is buying your crap, sorry.
I think the biggest issue raised by the AG’s was the expense. Once the illegals become legal, they get all the First World benefits …food stamps, free education, WIC, tax rebates without paying taxes, medicaid, etc. Since the illegals have an average 10th grade education…and Americans with 10th grade education consume 3 times more govt $ than they contribute, it can get expensive. For the first cohort of 5MM illegals, it could be over $ 2 trillion during their lifetimes. Big deal for the folks who actually pay taxes.
Best solution I’ve heard would be to issue the illegals special visas. It gives them a form of id and ” takes them out of the shadows”. Plus they get in line to become citizens. The visa has to be renewed each year for a fee. Hopefully it would screen out the people here just for the First World benefits.
Once you grant work permits to illegals here, the businesses that grow fat paying 3rd world wages in the U.S. will just import 10 million more. You don’t think they’ll continue to work housekeeping for $5 an hour do you?
Stop the amnesties, enforce the law, and wages will go up.
Create jobs, raise wages, improve the economy, and speed up LEGAL immigration once the border is secured.
Looks like we will need a different President to get any of that done.
if they want a to work here how about construction say maybe a 20 foot wall that’s oh say 2,000 miles long and has a 15 deep trench in front of it willed with ocean water. Now where could we build such a wall ????? oh wait across the southern boarded of america. i understand america is a melting pot and all that jazz but this is getting ridiculous. Our immigration system is broken and no one cares to fix it. im not saying this as some random a hole i actually work for uscis and the amount of people from the start of January that are tring to get this daca is unreal and the majority of them are not even worried about the actual deferring of removal action (aka getting deported ) as they are about getting the ead and (employment authorization). it sickens me to think that i work for a government that even would allow this type of monarchy to occur hes the president not the king of america. sorry to any one for grammar or spelling this whole situation has bugged me for a wile and i just had to get it out of my system.