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Justice Dept. releases legal backing for Obama immigration moves



FILE - In this March 10, 2010 file photo, Leroy Watson holds a sign in support of hundreds of young people participating in a youth immigration rally in Chicago. President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit the Chicago area next ... more >


By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Friday, November 21, 2014

The Justice Department said President Obama’s new executive action granting amnesty from deportation to illegal immigrant parents is legal because he limited it to those whose children could eventually petition for them to stay anyway.

Office of Legal Counsel lawyers, who serve as the government’s internal legal office, told the president he could not grant amnesty to parents of so-called Dreamers, because that would be going too far. But as long as he halted deportations and gave work permits to parents whose children have a permanent legal claim to be in the U.S., he was on safe ground.

The lawyers said Homeland Security can still refuse to deport Dreamers’ parents, but it cannot be done on a proactive blanket basis, as will happen with the parents of citizens.

“Extending deferred action to the parents of DACA recipients would therefore expand family-based immigration relief in a manner that deviates in important respects from the immigration system Congress has enacted and the policies that system embodies,” the lawyers concluded in their memo, dated Wednesday.

State and local officials have already said they’ll sue to try to stop Mr. Obama’s policy, and Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Maricopa County, Arizona, filed his lawsuit almost immediately after the president finished speaking Thursday night.

But they’ll face several obstacles, including convincing courts that they been injured by the president’s moves and therefore have standing to sue. Sheriff Arpaio argued in his case that his operations of his sheriff’s office have been affected by the increase in illegal immigrants allowed to remain in the U.S.

In its legal memo, the Justice Department said Mr. Obama’s amnesty goes well beyond any previous example, which the lawyers said did raise a question in their minds. But they concluded that since the entire population could eventually have a pathway to citizenship because of their relationship with citizen or legal permanent resident children, it was acceptable to grant them categorical amnesty now.

Most important, given its limited resources, the Homeland Security Department already must pick and choose who it deports, and so it’s acceptable to carve out populations it places low on its priority list.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/21/doj-releases-legal-backing-obama-immigration-moves/

The administration has packed the Department of Justice and DHS with liberal activist lawyers.

DHS:
Amnesty Incorporated: DHS Hires Activist Immigration Lawyers

December 4th, 2013 - 5:20 pm

Despite the sequester, the Department of Homeland Security has just completed a hiring blitz of attorneys to oversee and manage immigration litigation. Almost all of these new civil service attorney hires hail from an activist pro-amnesty and pro-asylum background. Sources within the Department of Homeland Security report that the process for hiring these new career civil service lawyers was unconventional and was conducted by an Obama political appointee within DHS.

The new attorneys have activist backgrounds with a variety of pro-amnesty groups such as the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the Advancement Project, and open borders groups funded by the Tides Foundation.

PJ Media previously reported on attorney hires within the Justice Department Civil Rights Division in the Every Single One series. That series demonstrated that every single attorney hire had a leftist or Democrat activist pedigree. The Department of Justice Inspector General criticized those DOJ hiring procedures as producing ideological outcomes. PJ Media only obtained the resumes of DOJ hires after this publication was forced to sue Eric Holder in federal court under the Freedom of Information Act.

Now, sources inside DHS have provided PJ Media with the employment history and pro-amnesty backgrounds of the newly hired lawyers who will be enforcing federal immigration laws.

The ideological histories of these new DHS lawyers undermine confidence that the federal government will vigorously enforce federal laws, notwithstanding any congressional “mandates” to do so.

These lawyers were hired through unconventional means by former DHS chief counsel for Citizen and Immigration Services Stephen Legomsky. Sources at DHS report that when Legomsky was hired by Secretary Janet Napalitano’s Department, he was not even an active member of any bar association. After resigning in October 2013, Legomsky is now a professor of law at Washington University. His scholarship is most notable for its hostility toward barriers to entry for foreigners coming to the United States.

Here are the backgrounds of the new lawyers hired at the DHS in the recent hiring blitz:

Blumeyer-Martinez

Kristy Blumeyer-Martinez is a new attorney in the DHS Office of the Chief Counsel. Prior to joining OCC, Kristy served as law clerk to the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in San Antonio, Texas, and RAICES in San Antonio, Texas. In law school, she also clerked with the UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic and Sacramento Child Advocates/Children’s Law Center. She also worked at American Gateways, Refugee Services of Texas, and Caritas of Austin.

Cantor

Esther Cantor was hired into the refugee and asylum law division as an associate counsel at DHS headquarters in Washington, D.C.. She participated in the Immigration Clinic and volunteered with the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition, an open borders organization.

Flores

Nicole Flores is a new DHS lawyer in Chicago. She graduated from Harvard Law School, where she worked at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic and served as the co-president of the Harvard Immigration Project, an organizationdedicated to ensuring foreigners get to stay in the United States. She was also a legal intern at the leftist open borders organization LatinoJustice-PRLDEF. According to DHS sources, there she worked on project to badger businesses who implemented English-only rules in the work place. Before law school, she was a volunteer activist at a “workers’ rights” organization in Madison, Wisconsin.

Fricker

Erin Fricker is a new DHS lawyer formerly employed by Lutheran Social Services of New England, where she was a staff attorney representing detained foreigners attempting to stay in the United States. While in law school, Erin participated in the Boston College Immigration and Asylum Project as an immigration clinic student.

Grossman

New DHS lawyer Elizabeth Grossman established her Obama-era ideological bona fides by serving on the executive board for the University of Michigan Law School chapter of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, a leftist law school student group.

Gunter

Elizabeth Gunter’s resume includes a stint in the Obama-era DOJ Attorney General’s Honor Program after graduating from Washington University, the same law school where Legomsky, the person doing the hiring at DHS, was a professor while Gunter was a student.

Heidelberg

Cindy Heidelberg comes from the same Holder-era Attorney General’s Honor Program, after a long activist background with open borders groups. Cynthia graduated from Georgetown Law in 2011, earning a J.D. with a certificate in “Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies.” During law school, she interned at the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project, the ACLU National Prison Project, and the AARP Litigation Foundation.

Hicks

Celia Hicks is a new lawyer with the Litigation and National Security Coordination Division in Washington, DC. She served as Protection Fellow for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and previously worked for the Legal Action Center of the American Immigration Council, an organization notoriously hostile to Border Patrol agents.

Higgins

New DHS lawyer Leila Higgins previously worked as a student attorney in the Immigrant Justice Clinic at her law school. This organization, according to its website, represents “immigrants on cutting-edge asylum claims based on gender and sexual orientation.”

Hummel

Lawyer Stephanie Hummel previously worked at the ABA Center for Human Rights in Washington, as well as the pro-amnesty Immigration Law Project, and Legal Services of Eastern Missouri in St. Louis, Missouri. In 2008, she spent time in Cairo studying Arabic. In law school, Hummel won a CALI Award for “Representation of Non-US Citizens in Immigration Court Proceedings.”

Lee

Before joining DHS, attorney Jennifer Lee was an advocate for illegal aliens obtaining in-state tuition at public universities, though she naturally called them “undocumented immigrants.” Lee also worked at the Legal Aid Justice Center, a organization which advised illegals “what to do in the event of a raid.”

Love

Katelyn Love is now a DHS lawyer in Washington, D.C. She once worked at Lutheran Family Services, where she represented foreigners in their attempts to stay in the United States. Katelyn spent her junior year of college in Morocco studying “formal and colloquial” Arabic.

Ooi

New DHS lawyer Maura Ooi previously worked in militantly activist roles with militantly activist open borders organizations such as the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project. Also, prior to joining DHS, Ooi penned a report for the leftist National Immigration Law Center bashing DHS. Titled “DHS Proposes Fantasy Remedies to Cure Fundamental Flaws in the Secure Communities Program” (emphasis mine), Ooi complained about efforts to fingerprint captured illegal aliens. Without collecting biometric data such as fingerprints, deported illegal aliens may repeatedly return to the United States and their prior illegal entries would remain unknown.

Parikh

Reena Parikh also worked at the American University Immigrant Justice Clinic, where she represented foreigners in removal proceedings. She also worked as a legal intern at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, a group knee-deep in trying to ease immigration laws.

Plastrik

If you were starting to think that Stephen Legomsky only hired young women to be DHS lawyers, meet new DHS lawyer Steven Plastrik. What Plastrik lacks in femininity, he makes up for with a deep commitment to making sure foreigners get to stay in the United States. He prepared asylum applications at Freedom House and on behalf of other organizations.

Shah

New DHS lawyer Liza Shah just completed a stint with the George Soros-funded Advancement Project working to ensure felons get the right to vote in Virginia (with the tragic and politically suicidal aid of Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell). As a law student, Shah naturally helped in litigation to keep foreigners in the United States.

Yao

Before becoming a DHS lawyer, Connie Yao worked at the Tides Foundation-funded East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, where she assisted individuals with asylum applications. At Cornell Law, she participated in the Advocacy for LGBT Communities Clinic.

Sharma

Amisha Sharma is on the board of directors of her local Planned Parenthood when she isn’t busy as a newly hired DHS lawyer. She also worked at the ACLU. She received a dual degree in religious studies and women’s and gender studies from Louisiana State University. At Fordham Law, she was on the board of “Law Students for Reproductive Justice,” worked at the “Center for Reproductive Rights” and volunteered for the “Planned Parenthood of New York City’s Activist Council.”

Shay

Catlin Shay has a history of aiding foreigners seeking to remain in the United States as well as activism against laws prohibiting felons from voting. She wrote “Free But No Liberty: How Florida Contravenes the Voting Rights Act by Preventing Persons Previously Convicted of Felonies from Voting,” and advocated a position wholly rejected by federal courts.

Shewchuk

Cara Shewchuk once worked at the pro-amnesty National Immigration Law Center and the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition, providing free legal help to illegal aliens.

Siders

Melanie Siders worked for the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network prior to her time as a DHS lawyer.

Smith

Lindsay Smith is a graduate of Smith College and Michigan Law, where she was “a Jenny Runkles scholar” for her commitment to public interest law and “diversity.” She also worked at the open borders, pro-amnesty group Americans for Immigrant Justice.

Esber

Prior to joining DHS, Shahna Esber was an “Immigration Law Fellow” at the Legal Aid Society of San Diego, where she helped foreigners stay in the United States. She also worked with the Immigration Center for Women and Children, an organization “proud to assist immigrant youth applying for Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.”

DeSalvo

DHS lawyer Bria DeSalvo graduated from Georgetown University Law Center “with a certificate in Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies. ” In law school, DeSalvo volunteered for the CAIR coalition.

Croizat

DHS lawyer Jessika Croizat served as a union organizer for AFSCME before deciding to attend law school.

Celone

Before his job as an attorney at DHS, Michael Celone was a Hill staffer for Democrats. He worked with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) helping prepare research to attack the Bush Justice Department regarding the firing of political appointees who were serving as United States attorneys. He also worked for Democrat Rep. Jim Langevin from Rhode Island. He also authored an article revealingly titled “Undocumented and Unprotected: Solutions for Protecting the Health of America’s Undocumented Mexican Migrant Workers.”

If you are an attorney with a background in enforcing immigration law as opposed to representing foreigners attempting to stay in the United States, don’t expect to be hired by DHS during the Obama administration. And based on this recent batch of hires, if you are a male with a background in immigration enforcement, forget about it.

http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2...inglepage=true

‘Every Single One’: PJ Media’s Investigation of Justice Department Hiring Practices

Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Voting Section
Reviewing the Resumes: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Voting Section
Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Immigration Office
Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Special Litigation Section
Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Education Section
Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Employment Section
Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Compliance Section
Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Housing Section
Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Disability Rights Section
Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Criminal Section
Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Appellate Section
‘Every Single One’ Fallout: Justice Dept. in Turmoil From PJMedia Series

http://pjmedia.com/every-single-one-...ing-practices/

what a bunch of profiteers!

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This is just more proof that the wrong people are being admitted to law school. Admitting people to law school who don't know the difference between right and wrong is not advancing our society, it's impoverishing the very citizens our government was formed to serve and protect and bankrupting our nation. Exploiting law school degrees to make money and gain power positions in our institutions to represent illegal foreign interests and persons has harmed our country and citizens in countless ways including those caused by violations of US immigration, US civil rights and US labor laws which are destroying the very foundation of nationalism, the keystone to any and every successful Republic or Democracy.

Importing strange and foreign poverty is not diversity, it's destruction of our own culture and the economy required to sustain it.

Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Immigration Office

All five new hires to the Justice Department's immigration office have far-left resumes — which were only released following a PJM lawsuit. (This is the third in a series of articles about the Justice Department's hiring practices since President Obama took office. Read parts one and two.)

by
RICHARD POLLOCK
Bio
August 12, 2011 - 12:00 am

Earlier this week, PJM commenced a series of articles highlighting the army of new attorneys hired for the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division by the Obama administration. PJM based its reporting on resumes that were finally turned over following a lengthy Freedom of Information Act battle with the Department.

The intent of the request was to examine the hiring practices of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. During the Bush administration, left-wing activists claimed that by hiring conservatives Bush was “politicizing” the Civil Rights Division.

Five years ago, the Boston Globe created a political storm when it filed a FOIA request for resumes from the Bush administration. The newspaper claimed the attorney general was “quietly remaking the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division” by filling it with moderate and conservative lawyers. For the Globe, this was a scandal of monumental proportions. After the Globe article was published, this claim was repeated by left-wing activists across the country.

This time, however, now that the Obama resumes are finally public, the mainstream media has gone silent.

They claim there is no story here, that the Civil Rights Division has simply hired civil rights liberals.
We are not surprised by their omissions in reporting the facts. In our series, we decided to simply present all the facts in detail, as an objective observer would have a difficult time accepting their conclusion.
We first focused on the Voting Section, with an exhaustive article by Hans von Spakovsky and a follow-up by DOJ whistleblower and PJM contributor J. Christian Adams. Both highlighted the hiring of activists who have embraced radical political agendas far outside of the legal mainstream.

Today we turn to the Civil Rights Division’s immigration office — a unit formally known as the “Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices,” although it is nearly always referred to by its acronym “OSC.” This section is responsible for enforcing the anti-discrimination provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act, and it spends the bulk of its time seeking to protect “green card” holders from employment discrimination.

As the OSC profiles attest, many of these new attorneys are overtly hostile to enforcement of our country’s immigration laws. Some have devoted their careers to militant left-wing movements, including anarchist and anti-corporate campaigns. One new hire was even part of an organization that endorsed indicting Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld with war crimes. But the common thread among the new hires is previous activity fighting for illegal aliens, even against the police and law enforcement. These lawyers now control the levers of state power to pursue their political agendas.

Also worrisome: OSC ran a substantial grant program, doling out approximately $750,000 every year to immigration advocacy organizations that educate the public about the statutory protections afforded to documented workers. Scores of immigration advocacy groups are handsomely subsidized by the taxpayer. They include such groups as the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services in Dearborn, Michigan, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, the Legal Aid Society of New York, and the National Immigration Law Center. (One of the grant applicants during the Bush years was the now-discredited ACORN, although its applications were consistently denied.) In one of the few sensible cost cutting decisions that Congress has made lately, the grant program has been suspended.

Five attorneys have been hired into OSC since Attorney General Holder took office, each one more radical than the next.

Elizabeth Hack: Ms. Hack was hired as the Special Litigation Counsel for OSC, the Section’s number two ranking official. A long-time Democratic activist, she contributed $2,500 to Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential election cycle, the maximum amount permitted by law, as well as another $500 to his political action committee back in 2006.

Ms. Hack’s real problem occurred while she was a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division in the mid-1990s. During that period, she was co-lead counsel in the Division’s infamous disparate impact lawsuit against the city of Torrance, California, in which she claimed that the city had discriminated against minorities in the hiring of police officers and firefighters. The district judge (a Jimmy Carter appointee) ultimately threw out the case and sanctioned the Division more than $1.7 million for pursuing an action that was entirely devoid of merit.

The case was such a stain on the Justice Department that the House Judiciary Committee convened a special oversight hearing to probe the Civil Rights Division’s shameful conduct. The testimony of Torrance’s attorney from Latham & Watkins at the hearing is nothing short of stunning for what it reveals about the shoddy work by Ms. Hack and her colleagues on the trial team.

Now Ms. Hack has been welcomed back.

Ronald Lee: Mr. Lee joined the Civil Rights Division after having served as a senior staff attorney at the liberal Asian American Justice Center. This organization is connected at the hip with Democratic Party officials and is so out of touch with its constituency that it proudly touts on its website its support of “affirmative action across the board.” (Try convening a group of Asian high school students who have benefited from affirmative action. It will be a very lonely room.)

During his time with this group, Mr. Lee spoke publicly about his opposition to Arizona’s SB1070 law that makes it a state crime for illegal aliens to commit federal immigration violations while in the state. His remarks reflected a level of naiveté and ignorance of both the statutory text and governing legal precedent.

On his resume, Mr. Lee proudly references his service as president of his law school chapter of the American Constitution Society (the liberal counterweight to the Federalist Society). He also notes he served as an editor of the activist Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy.

Seema Nanda: Ms. Nanda comes to the Division from her previous position as a supervisory attorney in the National Labor Relations Board’s “Division of Advice.” The highlight of her tenure there — according to her own resume — was her guidance on a case called Mezonos Bakery in which she advocated for the back pay rights of illegal aliens. For those not steeped in labor law, this was a decision in which the NLRB essentially cast aside a 2002 Supreme Court decision holding that illegal aliens had no such rights.
Ms. Nanda has served as chair of the Board of Directors of both the Refugee Women’s Alliance and the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum. She also contributed $1,500 during the 2010 election cycle to Raj Goyle, a far left Democratic congressional candidate in Kansas (and former staffer at the Center for American Progress) who was ultimately trounced in the general election.

Phil Telfeyan: Mr. Telfeyan joined the Civil Rights Division straight out of a judicial clerkship and only a year after graduating law school. But his emotional liberal activism has overshadowed his legal traits. He penned an article in theHarvard Law Review titled “Never Again Should a People Starve In a World of Plenty.” The piece was panned as little more than soft ideological dribble, with one prominent blogger characterizing it as a “rather embarrassing, bleeding-heart Case Comment” and another calling it a “sanctimonious and silly moral screed.”

Mr. Telfeyan’s entire motivation for the article was his opposition to a statue on the Harvard campus which he equated with the cruelty of intergenerational inequality. As it turns out, he was fantastically wrong. Indeed, the statue actually paid homage to the victims of the Irish potato famine. Mr. Telfeyan was forced to apologize, but not before his arguments about society’s moral obligations were blasted by critics as “unserious, unexamined, unedited, and unschooled — accurate only in the gentle, non-judgmental playground of his mind.”

Nor were his activities at Harvard anything new. Indeed, the Harvard Crimson published a story on him that highlighted his activism. The Crimson described his personal frustration that he could not participate in the violent 1999 protests in Seattle in which anarchists sought to physically destroy the city based on their bizarre opposition to the World Trade Organization.

The paper went on to note that Mr. Telfeyan “claims to have staged his own protest senior year at Mira Loma. His high school tried to stop Pajama Day, a popular school spirit activity. Telfeyan reacted by going on a hunger strike and chaining himself up to an oak tree for three days. He reports that he was not completely tied up, and could have left at any time, but the move was symbolic.”
This is a Department of Justice employee.

Mr. Telfeyan’s other activities were redacted from the resume released by the Civil Rights Division in response to our FOIA request. One can only imagine what else he must be involved in.

Liza Zamd: Saving perhaps the best for last, we come to Ms. Zamd, who arrived in the Civil Rights Division after having served as a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow at a German immigration organization called PRO ASYL and at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights. The latter organization describes on its website how “human rights are often violated or ignored through ruthless corporate business practices for the sake of economic gain” and laments that “those responsible are rarely called to account.” It trumpets the fact that war crimes charges were requested in Germany against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld by fringe groups on the Left.

Before joining these radical outposts, Ms. Zamd worked as a staff attorney at Casa de Maryland, the same institution at which current Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas Perez once served as president. Casa de Maryland is a far left-wing advocacy organization that generally opposes the enforcement of federal immigration law. As Hans von Spakovskyrecounted, the group “has encouraged illegal aliens not to speak with police officers or immigration agents; it has fought restrictions on illegal aliens’ receiving driver’s licenses; it has urged the Montgomery County (Md.) Police Department not to enforce federal fugitive warrants; it has advocated giving illegal aliens in-state tuition; and it has actively promulgated ‘day labor’ sites, where illegal aliens and disreputable employers openly skirt federal prohibitions on hiring undocumented individuals.”

Ms. Zamd’s stint at Casa de Maryland was preceded by her service as Policy Counsel for the militantly liberal National Partnership for Women and Families (NPWF). While working as Policy Counsel for this organization, Ms. Zamd played an active role in trying to scuttle Samuel Alito’s Supreme Court

confirmation by preparing materials claiming he was hostile to women and sharing those materials with the Senate Judiciary Committee. She has boasted of authoring a key part of the NPWF’s strident report titled “Tipping the Balance: The Record of Samuel Alito and What’s at Stake for Women.”

And what of Ms. Zamd’s views on immigration enforcement? Well, she was quoted in the Washington Examiner criticizing the arrests of illegal aliens in Anne Arundel, Maryland, claiming that “they are just victims of the broken immigration system.” Huh? She also penned an article at the annual Hispanic law conference on how to advocate for the employment rights of illegal aliens.

Meanwhile, before law school, Ms. Zamd worked as a Section 8 housing specialist at the American Red Cross in New York City and then later as a loan disbursement officer at ACCION New York, a non-profit micro-lending organization that serves minority and women clients who traditionally have little access to credit.

Filling OSC with such activists is right in line with the general immigration policy that Attorney General Holder has pursued. The Department of Justice has refused to enforce the federal immigration laws with any vigor. And it has not hesitated to launch assaults on states that have dared to challenge our weak immigration enforcement.

The American public has a right to expect that our federal bureaucrats will be enforcing the law in a non-partisan and race-neutral manner. Yet if their hiring decisions are any record, they have shown that ideology and politics prevail at the U.S. Department of Justice.

http://pjmedia.com/blog/every-single-one-the-politicized-hiring-of-eric-holder%E2%80%99s-immigration-office/?singlepage=true

In its legal memo, the Justice Department said Mr. Obama’s amnesty goes well beyond any previous example, which the lawyers said did raise a question in their minds. But they concluded that since the entire population could eventually have a pathway to citizenship because of their relationship with citizen or legal permanent resident children, it was acceptable to grant them categorical amnesty now.

Most important, given its limited resources, the Homeland Security Department already must pick and choose who it deports, and so it’s acceptable to carve out populations it places low on its priority list.

Wake Up States! This article is your CLEAR PATH to use your resources to enforce US immigration laws, because this is the clear and irrevocable admission by this Administration that is not only won't enforce US immigration law, it doesn't have adequate resources to do so, whereas States clearly do with over 1.2 million law enforcement personnel, and over 800,000 sworn, trained, equipped and ready police officers available to do the job the feds won't do. And it won't cost Americans a dime. We don't need new facilities, we don't need equipment or vehicles, we don't need new personnel, we don't need anything other than the CLEAR PATH to enforce the law which the Obama Administration is providing due to the recent statements and disclosures that the feds not only don't want to enforce US immigration law, they don't even have the resources to do so at this point.

Lets go states, just because the federal government is both unwilling and can't afford to enforce our laws doesn't subject US to the result, that's why we have States Rights. So it's time to bundle up every news report on this subject as evidence to overturn the previous US Supreme Court ruling against Arizona, and so do quickly so the full law of SB 1070 can be the example for all states to follow. This Administration committed a fraud against the people of Arizona and all Americans when it argued only it can enforce US immigration law because it's a federal responsibility when in fact it had no intention or resources to do so, so no, enforcing national law is a national responsibility which includes the resources available throughout our nation, civilian as well as police, state as well as county and city, so lets go!

Obama Scandal Scorecard: Lawyer Stuffing (Updated: Holy Fricking Crap, It’s Worse Than I Thought)

Jay Tea September 19, 2011

Of all the scandals so far identified within the Obama administration, the one that seems to have faded into “meh” territory the quickest is the staffing of the Voting Rights division of the Justice Department. Once Obama took office, he started packing that office with some of the most radical voting rights activists he could find — of the 16 appointees identified, each and every single one had a lengthy background pushing in courts the most liberal and absurd and ridiculous voting right “theories” imaginable.

Fortunately. the courts have consistently rejected these wacky ideas, leaving these activists to stew in their own juices. But now, they can return to push their causes with the full force of the federal government behind them. And all it takes is a sympathetic judge to enshrine into law such idiocies as striking down laws that verify voters’ citizenship, require an ID to vote, and keep convicted felons from voting.

I think this has not taken off because there’s nothing illegal or flagrantly unethical about it — people are largely inured to administrations putting its own choice of people in positions of power. And people, generally, are more blase’ about liberal activists than conservative ones.

And that’s a shame — the exclusive focus on radical liberal activists means that there is a decided lack of intellectual diversity and experience in the division. One would think that having at least one token conservative — if for no other reason than to get a preview of how their ideas might go over with those most motivated to oppose them. And a few career lawyers, to bring a bit of professionalism and continuity, wouldn’t hurt, either.

By focusing strictly on radical voting rights activists, the Obama administration is saying that it wants to empower them to advance their agenda, one that has been smacked down time and time and time again by the courts. And since hoping that they’ll get a reality check and come to their senses is a pipe dream, the best case scenario is that they’ll keep trying and trying to get their agenda through, and keep failing and failing. And having them all concentrated in one place might help to minimize their harm — scattered around the country, they just might sneak something through.

The potential of this particular mess to cause lasting harm to the Obama administration is pretty much minimal. Which is a shame, because it could cause real, lasting harm. Instead, we’ll just have to trust folks who have already dug this up to keep their eyes on these rascals until a new administration can take a broom to their hindquarters — and fumigate their offices.

Update: Holy fricking crap. I haven’t been paying proper attention. The fine folks at Pajamas Media have been going through the entire Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, and of 113 Obama/Holder appointees, they have found exactly none without impeccable liberal credentials. No conservatives is one thing, but not a single apolitical professional?

Say what you want — it’s clear that not only are Obama and Holder believers in the Spoils System, they are exceptionally fine practitioners of the art.

http://wizbangblog.com/2011/09/19/obama-scandal-scorecard-lawyer-stuffing/