By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Thursday, May 26, 2016

Homeland Security has discovered more three-year amnesty applications it approved in defiance of a federal judge's firm injunction, lawyers told the court late Wednesday — less than a week after the judge delivered a vicious spanking to the administration for repeatedly bungling the case.

Leon Rodriguez, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said as they were preparing for their latest update to the court, they discovered three more three-year amnesties they had sent out, after Judge Andrew Hanen had ordered them not to.

Mr. Rodriguez blamed "human error" and said the permits, known specifically as employment authorization documents or EADs, were reissues of ones that they'd sent earlier, but got returned for some reason.

He did not elaborate on the "human error."

The three approvals are small compared to the thousands the agency had already admitted to, but they are an embarrassing black eye just days after Judge Hanen ordered the Justice Department to force its lawyers to undergo remedial ethics training for having misled him on the earlier approvals.

Mr. Rodriguez said he's already taken steps to revoke the three-year amnesties and replace them with legal two-year documents, and said he's imposed new checks to try to make sure it doesn't happen again.

"I have instructed USCIS to conduct monthly checks or systems to identify any such EADs that may be issued or re-mailed despite the safeguards described above, to allow USCIS to take prompt corrective action," he said.

The amnesties are part of the executive action President Obama took in November 2014 to try to stop deportations of most illegal immigrants. He ordered new "priorities" putting most of the 11 million unauthorized migrants out of any danger of being removed, and in the case of up to 5 million, he granted them work permits and a three-year proactive stay of deportation.

Texas led 25 other states in suing, arguing Mr. Obama broke the law and violated the Constitution, and Judge Hanen issued an injunction halting the entire program. The case is now pending before the Supreme Court, but in the meantime, the administration issued more than 100,000 three-year permits, in what Judge Hanan has now ruled to be a violation of his order.

Last week he ordered the Justice Department, which handles all government cases, to put its lawyers at its Washington headquarters through remedial ethics training.

He also ordered the government to submit to the court the list of the more than 100,000 illegal immigrants who were illegally approved for the three-year amnesty.

Immigrant-rights advocates have fumed at the judge, saying he overstepped his own bounds.

Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, Illinois Democrat, said demanding the names of the illegal immigrants was "good old-fashioned scare tactics," and said Judge Hanen is "shamelessly anti-immigrant."

America's Voice, a leading advocacy group, said turning over the names could be a precursor to getting them deported if Donald Trump, Republicans' likely presidential nominee, wins the White House.

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