- In all great social change, it takes an overwhelming
number of citizens to take action. This past weekend, President Barack
Obama bequeathed amnesty for countless millions of illegal aliens. He
set up a dynamic whereby the law no longer applies. It's a violation of
the Constitution.
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- What can you do about it?
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- Roy Beck, director of <http://www.NumbersUSA.org>www.NumbersUSA.org,
offers all American citizens the ability to make an impact by their pre-written
letters and phone calls that are coordinated. You can become a member
for free and join over 1.1 million Americans that are taking action to
stop mass immigration.
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- "House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith has offered
legislation that would prevent the Obama Administration from offering amnesty
to millions of illegal aliens through deferred action or parole,"
said Beck. "The notion of an administrative amnesty first surfaced
through leaked internal memos last year, but a new blog from the White
House has confirmed the new Obama Administration policy."
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- Chairman Smith's HALT (Hinder the Administration's Legalization
Temptation) Act (H.R.2497) would prevent the Obama Administration from:
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- 1. granting parole (except in narrow circumstances),
- 2. issuing deferred action (except in narrow circumstances),
- 3. issuing extended voluntary departure to removable
aliens,
- 4. granting work authorization to aliens on a discretionary
basis,
- 5. granting TPS to any new groups of aliens,
- 6. waiving the three and 10 year bars to admittance for
aliens who have been illegally present in the U.S., and
- 7. granting cancellation of removal to illegal immigrants.
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- "The new DHS policy allows for "prosecutorial
discretion" such as by granting deferred action, "deciding whom
to stop, question, or arrest", deciding "whom to detain",
and "dismissing" a removal proceeding," said Beck. "The
memo made clear that potentially millions of deportable illegal and criminal
immigrants would be potentially eligible for administrative amnesty."
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- "When weighing whether an exercise of prosecutorial
discretion may be warranted for a given alien, ICE officers, agents and
attorneys should consider all relevant factors", such as:
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- ICE's "immigration enforcement priorities."
(ICE has expressed little interest in deporting illegal immigrants who
have not yet been convicted of "serious" crimes.)
- The person's "pursuit of education in the United
States". (The Migration Policy Institute estimates that more than
two million illegal immigrants would be eligible for the DREAM Act amnesty).
- "Whether the person has a U.S. citizen or permanent
resident spouse, child or parent. . . . "Whether the person or the
person's spouse is pregnant . . . ." (The Pew Hispanic Center estimates
that illegal immigrants have 4.5 million U.S.-born and thus U.S. citizen
children.)
- The person's length of presence in the U.S. (The Pew
Hispanic Center has estimated that millions of illegal immigrants have
been in the U.S. since the 1990s.)
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- "While the Administration can't grant citizenship
through its executive authority, it can shield illegal aliens from being
deported and issue temporary work authorization to illegal aliens who receive
the administrative amnesty," said Beck. "Please send a fax to
your U.S. Representative and urge him/her to cosponsor the HALT Act."
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- You may contact Roy Beck at <http://www.NumbersUSA.org>www.NumbersUSA.org
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