THE COURT RULED AGAINST OBAMA’S STEALTH AMNESTY… NOW IS OBAMA
GOING AFTER ALL HIS LA RAZA PARTY BASE OF CRIMINALS AND PUTTING THEM UNDER LOCK
AND KEY AGAIN???
USING THE GUISE OF SEQUESTER, HISPANDERING OBAMA AND LA RAZA
SUPREMACIST JANET NAPOLITANO CAME FACE TO FACE WITH THE FACTS AND JUDICIAL
WATCH. THE LA RAZA INFESTED OBAMA ADMINISTRATION of CORRUPTION LOST!
It proves the Obama
administration is willing to go to any extent - including gaming the courts -
to continue stonewalling the full story of its lawless release of illegal
aliens. Now, with the prison floodgates being thrown open to illegal aliens
under the phony pretense of abiding by sequester cuts, it is more important
that details of this threat to the public safety be revealed.
Judicial Watch recently earned a major victory
against the Obama Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in its efforts to
uncover records detailing the Obama administration's "stealth
amnesty" initiative. And with DHS releasing thousands of illegal alien
criminals onto the streets, it could not have come at a better time.
The United States District Court for the
District of Columbia recently ruled that the Obama DHS had failed to comply with the Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA) in a Judicial Watch lawsuit seeking records related
to the agency's policy of suspending some illegal alien deportations. The
opinion was issued by The Honorable Colleen Kollar-Kotelly.
Our FOIA lawsuit concerns a DHS policy,
implemented by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which led to the
reduction of the deportation docket in Houston, Texas, by dismissing pending
enforcement proceedings against illegal immigrants who DHS claimed did not have
serious criminal records. (Now
we know this was a lie. Judicial Watch uncovered records showing that multiple
deportation cases were dismissed against illegal immigrants who had committed
serious felonies. But more on that in a moment.)
In
the old days - and by the "old days" I mean 2010 - this was called
"stealth amnesty." But there's no "stealth" about the Obama
administration's amnesty campaign now. According to The Associated Press,
since mid-February, the Obama administration has openly and proudly released
more than 2,000 illegal immigrants facing deportation from jail. Reports
indicate that it plans to release 3,000 more this month.
Regarding our lawsuit and the court victory, we
filed our original FOIA request with DHS on August 30, 2010, and a subsequent
lawsuit on March 23, 2011, after the DHS refused to release the requested
records. On January 27, 2012, the U.S. District Court denied a DHS motion to
dismiss in part, chastising the agency for its inadequate explanations and
giving it one "final" opportunity to establish the applicability of
certain privileges in withholding the information from Judicial Watch.
In the February 28, 2013, decision, the District
Court ruled that with respect to a substantial number of documents at issue,
DHS had continued to improperly withhold information under the
"attorney-client" and attorney "work-product" privileges:
- Regarding DHS attempts to withhold information under an
attorney-client privilege, the court ruled in favor of Judicial Watch, declaring,
"[E]ach of these documents appears to concern nothing more than the
implementation of an agency policy, the withholding of which runs counter
to the [DC] Circuit's [earlier] admonition that a government attorney's
'advice on political, strategic, or policy issues [is] not ... shielded
from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege.'" (The court drew a
similar conclusion regarding the DHS effort to withhold information in
order to protect attorney "work-product.")
The records at issue concern internal DHS
controversy over how the Houston ICE officials were interpreting the Obama
administration's narrowed immigration enforcement priorities.
Documents previously uncovered by JW show that
DHS officials misled Congress and the public about the scope of its immigration
enforcement policy change, which gave wide latitude to local immigration
officials to dismiss illegal alien deportation cases - including the dismissal
of charges against illegal alien criminals convicted of violent crimes. So
don't believe the Obama administration's lie that public safety is not at issue
here. I believe people will die as a result of this new policy. (I cited my
reasons for pessimism in last week's update.)
But this ruling is good news at a time when the
country really needed it.
It proves the Obama
administration is willing to go to any extent - including gaming the courts -
to continue stonewalling the full story of its lawless release of illegal
aliens. Now, with the prison floodgates being thrown open to illegal aliens
under the phony pretense of abiding by sequester cuts, it is more important
that details of this threat to the public safety be revealed. We're pleased the
Court would not allow DHS to continue its contempt for FOIA law. We look
forward to getting those records.
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