US law? Who cares?
You'll remember that the feds were caught circulating a secret memo addressed to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas and written by his staffers that detailed strategies the Obama administration was going to use to simply avoid deporting illegal aliens - what the memo called "a non-legislative version of amnesty."
Those strategies to provide that amnesty are apparently now being implemented by the Feds.
The Houston Chronicle details how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a part of the Department of Homeland Security is engaging in a massive effort to dismiss thousands of pending immigration cases against illegal aliens.The official excuse for this is that ICE is supposedly focusing on illegal aliens guilty of felonies while in the US.
Misdeamenors are apparently just fine, as long as they don't involve DUIs, domestic violence or sex crimes.
Local immigration lawyers coming to court expecting deportation orders against their clients are instead finding out that the charges are being dismissed and the cases dropped.
Raed Gonzalez, a local Houston immigration attorney was quoted as saying that he went into immigration court was given a court date in October 2011 for one client. But the government's attorney requested the dismissal of that case and those of two more of his clients, and the cases were dispatched by the judge.
The court "was terminating all of the cases that came up," Gonzalez said. "It was absolutely fantastic."
"We're all calling each other saying, 'Can you believe this?' " said John Nechman, another Houston immigration attorney, who had two cases dismissed.
All of them called the DHS and were informed that this s now official policy. look for Obama to try and push through amnesty legislation during the lame duck session of Congress.
This is a slap in the face to every US legal immigrant who jumped through hoops and played by the rules to come to America.
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