Thread: Judge: Obama administration can’t refuse to arrest illegal aliens

Judge: Obama administration can’t refuse to arrest illegal immigrants
By Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

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  **FILE** An illegal immigrant from El Salvador is searched June 26, 2012.

A federal judge said this week that the Obama administration is likely violating the law by telling immigration agents and officers not to arrest illegal immigrants they deem low priority, in a case that could upend President Obama’s enforcement policy.
For the last several years the administration has said it will no longer arrest most illegal immigrants, arguing it wants to focus only on those with serious criminal records or gang ties. The Homeland Security department said it was using “prosecutorial discretion.”

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Immigration agents and officers sued, saying federal law requires them to make the arrests, but the Obama administration would discipline them if they complied with the law.
Federal Judge Reed O'Connor said in a court order Tuesday that Congress, not the president, sets priority for arresting illegal immigrants, and said the law requires them to be put in deportation proceedings.
“The court finds that DHS does not have discretion to refuse to initiate removal proceedings,” Judge O'Connor wrote.
He said if Homeland Security officials want to set priorities for who they deport, they can do that later — but they cannot control who agents arrest.
The order is not a final ruling. Judge O'Connor said he still needs more information from both the administration and the immigration agents about whether the agents had another avenue to protest the policy rather than to go to court.
He asked both sides to submit more information by May 6.
Still, Tuesday’s order makes clear that the judge rejects the central part of Mr. Obama’s claim that he can use discretion to decide not to arrest some illegal immigrants.
The case was brought by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Council, the labor union that represents ICE agents and officers.
On Tuesday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano defended her policy, saying it “installed real priorities for the first time.”
Ms. Napolitano says Congress gives her agency enough funding to deport about 400,000 people a year — a small fraction of the estimated 11 million in the country. Given that, she said it makes sense for her agents to focus on the most serious offenders, rather than rank-and-file illegal immigrants holding jobs or attending school.

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Very interesting. So far so good.

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10 hours ago – JUDGE: Obama doesn't have authority NOT to deport illegals… ... “The court finds that DHS does not have discretion to refuse to ... Still, the judge said he can't decide the case based on the arguments he's heard so far. . .

very good so far Now all other judge from all other state & country do the same thing . I said this is all obama doing
come on to all the judge stand up to obama I saw on TV as one judge said this is mind court room . you do as
I say .
That how is should be.

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