DHS Admits: "Non-legislative amnesty" would be "controversial, not to mention expensive."
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By Jon Feere
August 22, 2011

The White House and the Department of Homeland Security remain tight-lipped about any details on the Obama administration’s attempt at an administrative amnesty, more than three days after the news story first broke. The president is conveniently on vacation leaving only one lone staffer, former La Raza operative Cecilia Munoz, to post a three-paragraph blog on the radical administrative changes. Policy analysts and journalists are scraping together bits of information in an attempt to make sense of the scope of this administrative amnesty. For example, there is nothing from the administration confirming the extent of the work authorization planned for the millions of illegal immigrants in the country, nor any discussion of how the administration can justify giving jobs to illegal aliens when millions of Americans are desperately looking for work.

Thus far, the only source providing some insight on how the administration views this attempt at administrative amnesty can be found in a draft memorandum from USCIS officials titled, “Administrative Alternatives to Comprehensive Immigration Reform.â€