‘Administrative amnesty’ is a scandal

Suffolk News Herald
Joe Guzzardi
Published 9:20pm Saturday, September 17, 2011

Immediately after Congress returned from its August vacation, U.S. Representative Steve King (R-Iowa) called for oversight hearings to investigate President Obama’s administrative amnesty for illegal aliens. Obama’s unconstitutional measure, announced by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Aug. 19, will cancel at least 300,000 aliens’ deportation orders.

Two weeks later, public outrage escalated when Obama’s Uncle Onyango apparently became one of the new policy’s first beneficiaries. Onyango, arrested for drunken driving, had an outstanding deportation order against him issued nearly 20 years ago. During the intervening years, he had been working as a liquor store clerk — a job, by the way, Americans would do. King wants Onyango to testify.

Yet despite King’s repeated calls for a hearing, so far nothing is scheduled. To move forward, Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the chairman of the Congressional Oversight Committee, has yet to get on board.

Issa is preoccupied with another Obama scandal. He has launched a probe into what he views as an inappropriate and potentially illegal overlap between Obama’s official and political activities.

Under Issa’s direction, the committee, as part of its most pointed inquiry into the White House and the Democratic National Committee’s fundraising activities, recently sent a letter to White House counsel Kathy Ruemeller. The letter requested hundreds of internal documents relating to what Issa termed “an array of potentially illegal fundraising behavior.â€