Obama Amnesty is Threat to Public Safety
The liberal media and Establishment Washington (heavily populated by members of both parties) would have you believe that President Obama’s evisceration of our nation’s immigration laws is a political game. Most Democrats defend Obama’s despotism on this issue. Many Republicans, while complaining about Obama’s lawlessness, are happy to fund it with your tax dollars.
But tens of thousands of the illegal aliens released by this administration (in contravention of law) are dangerous criminals. Obama’s lawbreaking, and Republican complicity in it, will kill or harm innocent American – and we have the documents to prove it.
Once again, it was your Judicial Watch that forced the truth from the Department of “Homeland Security” (DHS), which is responsible for releasing hundreds of thousands of criminal illegal aliens into the country. Those quotation marks around “Homeland Security” should be fixed in every news piece referencing the agency from this point forward in light of what your JW has just uncovered.
JW recently released to the public 76 pages of DHS documents showing that as of April 26, 2014, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, a division of DHS, had released 165,900 convicted criminal aliens into the United States at taxpayers’ expense, both in terms of money and security. This figure includes criminal aliens convicted of homicide, sexual assault, kidnapping, and aggravated assault.
The documents we have just released were obtained through a July 21, 2014, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit we filed after DHS failed to respond to a FOIA request issued earlier that year. Specifically, we asked for records of communications to and from personnel in the office of the principal deputy assistant secretary of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including its component offices, from May 1 to May 15, 2014, concerning a report published by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) relating to the release of 36,000 criminal aliens – the total known criminal release for 2014 alone.
The ICE documents we released confirmed the key findings of that CIS report. ICE freed 36,007 convicted criminal aliens, who had nearly 88,000 convictions including 193 homicide convictions, 426 sexual assault convictions and 303 kidnapping convictions. This is chilling.
The shocking numbers were known by the Obama gang more than one year ago, but had been kept secret until our litigation. A DHS “Overview of ICE” document marked “FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY” reveals the details:
- Non-Detained Final Order Convicted CRIMINAL 165,950
- Non-Detained Final Order NON CRIMINAL 706,950
- Non-Detained Final Order TOTAL 872,900
Throughout his two terms as president, President Obama’s appointees have been recklessly permissive in his policies toward illegal aliens who could be dangerous to the country. Back in May 2013, your JW obtained documents showing that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) ignored required background checks in 2012 and instead pursued “lean and lite” procedures to keep pace with the avalanche of amnesty applications that flowed out of President Obama’s Deferred Action for Children Arrivals (DACA) directive, which grants illegal aliens a two-year deferment from deportation.
The fact that we need JW’s expert team of attorneys to sue in federal court to obtain information about the 165,950 convicted criminal aliens now free to prowl America’s streets shows how duplicitous and dishonest the Obama administration has been on this issue. The deportation of illegal aliens, who are a real and present danger to innocent Americans, is the lowest possible priority now for Obama administration appointed officials and the faceless bureaucrats who do their bidding.
This new batch of documents JW has obtained also demonstrates that the contempt for our nation’s immigration laws includes local politicians who also think they are above the law. The “amnesty politicians” create state and local “sanctuary policies” that undermine federal immigration law.
An email dated May 2, 2014, for example, highlights how such policies in Montgomery County, Maryland, (right next door to D.C.) made it impossible for immigration officials to gain access to an illegal alien who was “in state custody on rape charges.” The lawlessness on immigration is so extreme that its proponents in one of the wealthiest counties in the nation would protect illegal alien rape suspects from scrutiny!
Not all is lost. More than two dozen states have at least challenged the most egregious Obama amnesty measures (though more than a few of them have sanctuary policies just like Montgomery County’s!). The court fight has been successful thus far, if you value the U.S. Constitution and the principle that President Obama is not a king. Judicial Watch is in the thick of this important legal battle and is bringing the issue of public safety (and the Obama gang’s lies about the issue) to the attention of the courts.
Last week, we filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit opposing the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) “emergency” motion to allow President Obama’s unilateral “executive actions” on illegal immigration to go forward (State of Texas, et al., v. United States, et al. (No. 15-40238)).
Our lawyers counter the Obama administration’s argument that the injunction against its mass amnesty program “interferes with [its] ability to protect the Homeland and secure our borders” by helping it distinguish criminals and other high priority aliens for removal. Citing other records we obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Judicial Watch pointed out that the Obama amnesty is unlikely to have anything to do with finding criminals for removal:
Through a Freedom of Information Act request, Judicial Watch obtained records showing that DHS is failing to conduct required, comprehensive background checks on aliens who apply for Appellants’ original deferred action program, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”), in order to accelerate the processing of application. See Press Release, Documents Reveal DHS Abandoned Illegal Alien Background Checks to Meet Amnesty Requests Following Obama’s DACA, Judicial Watch, Inc. (June 11, 2013) Specifically, the records reveal that DHS abandoned rigorous checks of DACA applicants’ backgrounds for minimal, “lean and lite” background checks. Id. In early March 2015, it was reported that 23 DACA beneficiaries were picked up in a nationwide sweep of criminal aliens, 15 of which are current DACA recipients.On February 23, 2015, in its drive to fulfill Obama’s wish to circumvent established immigration law the Obama Justice Department, on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security, attempted to get around normal legal procedure, filing a motion for a stay in the Appeals Court before U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen has ruled. In its brief Judicial Watch argues that the Obama administration is improperly seeking intervention from the higher court in contravention of law:
Because there is evidence to suggest that comprehensive backgrounds checks are not being performed, allowing the DAPA [Deferred Action for Parents of American and Lawful Permanent Residents] program to take effect pending Appellants’ appeal of the District Court’s preliminary injunction is unlikely to assist DHS in distinguishing criminal and other high priority aliens from non-criminal aliens.
If this Court were to grant Appellants’ motion, it would cast aside decades-old immigration laws passed by Congress and signed by the President. These laws have been in place for almost 30 years. In seeking a stay pending appeal, Appellants fail to demonstrate why destroying 30 years of status quo and undermining duly enacted laws is necessary at this immediate date. None of the reasons cited by Appellants in their motion answer the question: why today?According to Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, a motion for a stay pending appeal filed in the Appellate Court “must state that, a motion having been made, the district court denied the motion or failed to afford the relief requested and state any reasons given by the district court for its action.” Judicial Watch notes that the DOJ’s “sole argument for seeking relief from this Court before the District Court has ruled is their ‘view of the urgency of obtaining a stay of the preliminary injunction.’”
On March 9, 2015, Judge Hanen issued an order that he would rule on the request for a stay after a March 19, 2015, hearing. Judicial Watch sees no obvious reason in the court’s record that suggests that the District Court will not rule shortly, so there is no lawful reason for asking for the appellate relief other than pure politics. As The New York Times reported, the administration’s appeal to the Fifth Circuit was seen as a way to send “a message to immigration advocates, many of whom have been frustrated by the Justice Department’s [actions].” The Obama gang, catering to amnesty extremists, is asking for special favors from the courts just so illegal alien radicals and their advocates won’t give them political trouble. The president’s overturning of our nation’s immigration laws isn’t enough; the courts must now bend a knee to this despotic administration!
It is not credible for anyone to suggest that President Obama’s amnesty program is about protecting the public safety. Whether it is releasing dangerous criminal illegal aliens onto an unsuspecting public – or simply refusing to do basic background checks on beneficiaries of its amnesty programs – the Obama administration will guarantee that innocent Americans suffer a high price indeed for its lawlessness.
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MEX DRUG ADDICTED AMERICA – BUILDING THE LA
RAZA
OCCUPATION AND OBAMA DICTATORSHIP
THE OBAMA – LA RAZA CONSPIRACY:
Will the Mexican Drug Cartels Help Obama finish off the American Middle-Class
and advance his designs on being America’s first dictator?
From his first day
in office, Barack Obama has sabotaged America’s borders and laws to facilitate
Mexico’s invasion and wholesale looting of the American economy!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-obama-conspiracy-for-mexican-drug.html
NOT
ONE OF OBAMA’S CRONY BANKSTERS THAT LAUDER MEX DRUG CARTEL MONEY WAS EVER
PROSECUTED!!!
TAKING DOWN AMERICA:
Obama and the LA RAZA Mexican Drug Cartels Hit
Chicago!
WHY DOES OBAMA HATE AMERICA SO?
THE OBAMA REGIME’S ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN
BORN WORKER RATCHETED UP ONCE AGAIN!
THE
BUILDING OF THE OBAMA DICTATORSHIP:
Hail
La Raza Supremacy?
Homeland
Security graduates first Corps of Homeland Youth
By Mark Wachtler
October 7, 2012. Vicksburg. (ONN) The
federal government calls them FEMA Corps. But they conjure up memories of the
Hitler Youth of 1930’s Germany.
JUDICIAL WATCH:
165,000 MEX CRIMINALS ON THE LOSE.
IT’S ALL PART OF
OBAMA’S CATCH, RELEASE, LOOT AND VOTE DEM PROGRAM!
OBAMA PROMISES
MEXICO: Only 3 out of 100 invading
looting Mexicans will ever be sent packing!
OBAMA
KEEPS PROMISE TO MEXICO: jumping U.S. borders will never get easier!
THE OBAMA
SABOTAGE of AMERICAN BORDERS and LAWS to build the dems’ LA RAZA “THE RACE”
PARTY BASE of looting illegals.
SUPER TOP – MEX
GANGS CENTRAL VALLEY
THE LA RAZA MEX
CRIME TIDAL WAVE SWEEPS MEXIFORNIA: RAPE, MURDER and CHILD MOLESTATION…. then
they go out and vote for Hillary Clinton
“It
was aimed at "ruthless" and "lethal" gang leaders
associated with Nuestra Familia, which was started at Folsom State Prison in
1968 and continues to be run out of the state prison system, California
Attorney General Kamala Harris said. Nuestra Familia controls most of the
Nortenos street gangs in Central California and has ties to Mexican drug
cartels, according to law enforcement officials.”
BARACK OBAMA’S sabotage of homeland security and
the MEXICAN that endorse his LA RAZA
SUPREMACY & OPEN BORDERS AGENDA
OBAMA’S
BANKSTERS MONEY LAUNDERING FOR MEX DRUG CARTELS… not one went to prison! ALL
ARE OBAMA DONORS!
DRUG CARTELS FIND CALIFORNIA A GREAT PLACE TO
LOOT!
Street
gang that controls ALL of Orange County drug trade taken down: SWAT teams swoop
on 120 members of the 'Mexican Mafia' a total of 129 people have been
indicted by county and federal grand juries alleging crimes including
murder, drug trafficking and extortion
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-mexican-crime-tidal-wave-mexican.html
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-mexican-crime-tidal-wave-mexican.html
SEN. JEFF SESSIONS (R)
“No party can win without working and middle class voters. The path forward for the GOP is to become the party of the American worker. The party of higher wages. The party of full employment.
The Democratic Party has already cast its lot: its members have endlessly enabled the President’s anti-worker policies, including his wage-cutting agenda of uncontrolled immigration and the bleeding of American manufacturing wealth overseas.”
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