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Title: JUDGE STANDS ON SOLID GROUND, GIVES OBAMA EXECUTIVE ORDER REALITY CHECK - Texas judge considers penalty for Obama immigration permits
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URL Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ ... ig-texas19-20150819-story.html
Published: Aug 22, 2015
Author: By Laurel Brubaker Calkins, Bloomberg Ne
Post Date: 2015-08-22 02:07:29 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
Keywords: None
Views: 150
Comments: 5

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — The Obama administration scrambled to satisfy a Texas judge it shouldn't be punished for violating his order freezing an executive action to loosen immigration rules.

"We apologize for those miscommunications and regret them,'" James Gilligan, a Justice Department attorney, told Hanen. "They were inadvertent and unintended."

At a hearing Wednesday in federal court in Brownsville, government lawyers repeatedly apologized to U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen for mistakenly issuing 2,600 work permits after his order, and then making misleading statements on their compliance. Hanen froze the program after 26 states sued.

"But they were repeated," said Hanen.

Gilligan replied that the government responded immediately once it realized it had misled the judge about the permits.

"We weren't trying to hide anything from the court in the first place," Gilligan said. The administration said it has recovered all but 12 of the 2,600 permits.

The White House has submitted multiple reports to Hanen detailing extensive efforts to recover the permits. Agents have repeatedly texted, called and e-mailed immigrants to turn in their improper papers, with federal agents following up door-to- door to retrieve stragglers, the government said.

The states suing to block the program pressed Hanen to expand the government's recovery campaign to include 108,000 work permits issued before Hanen's freeze order.

Hanen, an appointee of Republican President George W. Bush, gave both sides until Sept. 4 to suggest what punishment he should impose on the Obama administration if he decides he was intentionally misled.

"I can just do nothing," the judge told the lawyers. Or he could force immigration officials to disclose the names and locations of the 108,000 immigrants so their permits can be clawed back, either by the U.S. or the states.

Angela Colmenero, Texas's lead lawyer, said the states prefer learning the identities and whereabouts of immigrants who may be using the permits to collect government benefits.

"The government should go back and unwind these benefits," Colmenero said. "Every year those permits remain on the books, there are individuals seeking those benefits from the states."

Obama's initiative is designed to shield 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation and provide work permits. Immigrants must be the parent of an American citizen and have lived in the U.S. for at least five years or have been brought here themselves as children. They must also pass a criminal background check to qualify

The White House has challenged Hanen's freeze order in a bid to get the program up and running before Obama leaves office. The U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans hasn't yet ruled on the request.

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So who is going to pay for their parents crimes? US taxpayers? My kids? Your kids? It's plain and simple those children are the offspring of criminals. therobrown

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#1. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)

Brownsville is special -- "It is located at the southernmost tip of Texas, on the northern bank of the Rio Grande, directly north and across the border from Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico" (wikid).

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2015-08-22   4:02:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)

Bump to check for update.

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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC

GreyLmist  posted on  2015-10-15   19:01:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: GreyLmist (#2)

Pls ping me if you get the update.

This has gone under the radar.

U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY

HAPPY2BME-4UM  posted on  2015-10-15   20:25:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#3)

Pls ping me if you get the update.

This has gone under the radar.

Yes, it has. Maybe it got postponed. Couldn't find an update. Will post it here in this topic if/when I do find something about it, so that you get a copy.

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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC

GreyLmist  posted on  2015-10-16   6:56:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: GreyLmist (#4)

Thanks.

U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY

HAPPY2BME-4UM  posted on  2015-10-16   14:05:37 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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