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    Judge Says Federal Officials Must Personally Appear In Court For Violating Amnesty

    Judge Says Federal Officials Must Personally Appear In Court For Violating Amnesty Injunction

    CHUCK ROSS
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    12:32 AM 07/08/2015

    A federal judge in the district court of South Texas has ordered top officials with the Department of Homeland Security — including Sec. Jeh Johnson — to appear in person in his court in Brownsville next month to show why they should not be held in contempt for violating an injunction issued against President Obama’s executive amnesty order.

    Andrew Hanen issued the rare order on Tuesday in the latest court filing for a lawsuit filed to halt President Obama’s executive amnesty order. Obama announced the action on Nov. 20. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, then the state’s attorney general, filed the suit on Dec. 3.


    Hanen called the Obama administration’s response to his Feb. 16 injunction “unacceptable” and “unprofessional.” He also stated that he is “shocked and surprised at the cavalier attitude the Government has taken” towards it.


    At issue is the federal government’s failure to clear up why DHS issued 2,000 work permits to illegal aliens even after the injunction was in place. The Justice Department made that announcement in May, but DHS and its sub-agencies have not yet explained why applications for the permits were approved.


    Hanen says that the government must answer that question to his satisfaction by the end of the month or else appear in his court on Aug. 19.

    “Each individual Defendant must attend and be prepared to show why he or she should not be held in contempt of Court,” Hanen ordered.


    The list of defendants includes DHS’ Johnson as well as the heads of Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.


    “In addition to the individual Defendants, the Government shall bring all relevant witnesses on this topic as the Court will not continue this matter to a later date,” Hanen added.


    Issuing 2,000 work permits to illegal aliens after the injunction is not the government’s first misstep in the case.


    In March, Justice Department attorneys stated in a midnight court filing that DHS had granted three-year deferrals to more than 100,000 illegal aliens between the Nov. 20 amnesty announcement and before the Feb. 16 injunction. But DHS had already told Hanen that no illegal aliens would receive relief until late February at the latest. The government said that the benefits were granted by accident.


    Obama’s Nov. 20 action would extend amnesty to up to five million illegal aliens that aren’t already covered by his 2012 policy, Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). His most recent move expands on DACA and shields some parents of legal permanent residents from deportation.

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    No continuances to be allowed, must personally appear, I am having a amusing moment. Sounds like His Honor may be prepared to had down penalties. Can you imagine federal officials, the Sec'y of HSI in federal orange jumpsuit? He will get only a fine, better be more than $100.

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    Federal Judge Orders Top Obama Officials to Court for Possible Contempt Action

    by Lana Shadwick
    8 Jul 2015

    A federal judge in Brownsville has ordered top Obama administration officials to personally appear in his court to answer why he should not sanction them for violating his orders in the president’s executive amnesty litigation.

    U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, and all other federal defendants, have been ordered to attend a hearing on August 19th at 10 a.m. to show why the judge should not hold them in contempt of court.

    Other defendant top officials ordered to appear include: R. Gil Kerlikowske, commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection; Leon Rodriguez, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services; Sarah R Saldana, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; and Ronald D. Vitiello, deputy chief of U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Customs and Border of Protection.

    In his order yesterday, Judge Andrew Hanen warned the government that if violations have not been corrected by the end of the month that “the only logical conclusion is that the Government needs a stronger motivation to comply with lawful orders.”

    He continued, “Neither side should interpret this Court’s personal preference to not sanction lawyers or parties as an indication that it will merely acquiesce to a party’s unlawful conduct.”

    Judge Hanen is the judge who denied the U.S. government’s request to remove the block of Obama’s amnesty plan.

    In his order, the judge noted that there were “approximately 2,000 individuals that were given various benefits in violation of this Court’s order after the injunction was issued.”

    The order continues, “The Court was first apprised by the Government of the violations of its injunction on May 7, 2015. It admitted that it violated this Court’s injunction on at least 2,000 occasions – violations which have not been fixed.”

    The judge has warned the DOJ lawyers and federal officials but his order yesterday stated that “no reasonable person could possibly consider a direct violation of an injunction a side issue.”

    While the judge stated in his order that the “Court has expressed its willingness to believe that these actions were accidental and not done purposefully to violate this Court’s order … it is shocked and surprised at the cavalier attitude the Government has taken with regards to its ‘efforts’ to rectify this situation.”

    He noted that the situation has not been corrected six weeks after the government admitted it had violated the orders on May 7th and promised it would mend the situation.

    “In addition to the individual Defendants,” the court said, “the Government shall bring all relevant witnesses on this topic as the Court will not continue this matter to a later date.”

    This Court stated that the administration “has not remediated its own violative behavior,” despite the passage of two months. The judge wrote, “That is unacceptable and, as far as the Government’s attorneys are concerned, completely unprofessional.”

    Judge Hanen specifically warned, “To be clear, this Court expects the Government to be in full compliance with this Court’s injunction. Compliance as to just those aliens living in the Plaintiff States is not full compliance.”

    The judge said he would cancel the hearing if a report ordered filed on July 31st satisfied him that the situation has been remedied. “Otherwise, the Court intends to utilize all available powers to compel compliance.”

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    :...In addition.... the government shall bring all relevant witnesses...." Do you really reckon that Jeh Johnson can get Obama to show up for testifying against himself? Awww, man, that is a day to anticipate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jean View Post
    The judge said he would cancel the hearing if a report ordered filed on July 31st satisfied him that the situation has been remedied.
    Well shucks. I had my hopes up for some first rate political theater.
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