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Judge to Janet Napolitano: You have to deport illegal immigrants | WashingtonExaminer.com
April 24, 2013 | 11:45 am
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano does not have the authority to refuse to enforce laws that require illegal immigrants to face deportation, according to the federal judge hearing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement unions lawsuit against DHS.
The court finds that DHS does not have discretion to refuse to initiate removal proceedings [when the law requires it], U.S. District Judge Reed OConnor said Wednesday, per Business Week. OConnor asked DHS and the ICE union to offer additional arguments before he makes a final ruling on the legality of President Obamas deferred action on childhood arrivals program, which invoked prosecutorial discretion as a means of allowing people to stay in the country if they would have qualified for amnesty under the Dream Act, which never passed Congress.
The judges comments come one day after Napolitano scolded the union, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Gang of Eights immigration bill, for challenging the policy she and Obama have implemented.
There are tensions with union leadership, unfortunately, Napolitano told Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., on Tuesday. Heres what I expect as a former prosecutor and attorney general: that is that law enforcement agents will enforce the law in accordance with the guidance they are given [by] their superiors.
Sessions faulted Napolitano for refusing to meet with the ICE officers union. I have never heard of a situation in which a group of law officers sued their supervisor, and you, for blocking them from following the law, he said. They werent complaining about pay, benefits, working conditions they were saying their very oath they took to enforce the law is being blocked by rules and regulations and policies established from on high, and that this is undermining their ability to do what they are sworn to do.
good Badlands threadOh, wait!!!
good Badlands thread
The constitution says one of the duties of the president is "he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed". And here is obozo saying he's gonna let MILLIONS of illegals live in america in brazen violation of the law.!!! Why didn't the repubs demand impeachment over this?
good Badlands thread
That's where it will prolly end up like all other anti-obozo threads the liberals cannot rebut.
Yep it reminds me of Andrew Jackson, when he is supposed to have said something like, the court made their decision let them enforce it. I doubt if one branch of the government can order another branch to do or not do something.
