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Feds going door-to-door to seize illegal immigrants’ Obama amnesty approvals


U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents enter an apartment complex looking for an undocumented immigrant convicted of a felony during an early morning operation in Dallas. (Associated Press) more >

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Updated: 7:50 p.m. on Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Goosed into action by an angry federal judge, federal immigration authorities will go door-to-door demanding illegal immigrants return the three-year amnesty approvals the Obama administration issued to them in defiance of a court order.

Those who don’t return their three-year permits will have them terminated at the end of this month, the National Immigrant Justice Center, one of the advocacy groups briefed on authorities’ plan, said in a statement preparing immigrants for what could be a traumatic encounter.

The move comes as Homeland Security officials, fed up with slow-walking by illegal immigrants, are finally playing hardball after months of less forceful measures.

They’re scrambling to meet an end-of-month deadline set by Judge Andrew S. Hanen for recapturing thousands of three-year amnesties the department issued even after the court had entered an injunction halting the new amnesty program.

Unless all of the permits are recovered, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson could personally have to appear in court to explain the foul-up, Judge Hanen said in an order earlier this month.

But the home visits also come at a tricky time, when immigration is a heated issue, and any contact by authorities can be scary for immigrants. Advocacy groups, who were given a heads-up by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, are preparing to field calls from frightened immigrants.

“The USCIS home visits unfortunately will add to the mounting confusion and anxiety communities feel as they await a resolution in the executive action case, but individuals should know it is critical to comply with requests to exchange their work permits, whether they receive a letter or visit at their homes,” Vanessa Esparza-Lopez, supervising attorney for the National Immigrant Justice Center’s legal defense project, said in a statement.

In a new fact sheet, USCIS raised the number of erroneous “Employment Authorization Documents,” or EADs, it approved from about 2,500 to 2,600 — the third time it’s boosted that estimate.

“USCIS is carefully tracking the number of returns of these invalid EADs and continues to take steps to collect the remaining cards,” the agency said.

The amnesty was supposed to be the crowning achievement in President Obama’s immigration policy. Instead, it’s been a big headache, exposing bureaucratic bungling and getting the president and his top aides ensnared in a complex court case that’s not gone his way.

Mr. Obama had been trying to expand his 2012 amnesty, which granted two-year tentative legal status and work permits to so-called Dreamers. Under his new plan, the amnesty would last for three years and would apply to millions of illegal immigrant parents.

The Dreamers were allowed to apply for three-year permits soon after the Nov. 20, 2014, announcement, while parents were to begin applying this May.

But Judge Hanen, in a case brought by Texas and 25 other states, ruled that Mr. Obama likely broke the law in forming his amnesty. The judge issued an injunction halting it on Feb. 16, and thought he’d nipped the entire program.

Several weeks later, however, administration lawyers admitted they’d been approving applications beginning in November, and that more than 100,000 Dreamers had been granted three-year status. Worse yet, the administration has twice come back to Judge Hanen and reported that thousands more approvals were sent even after the Feb. 16 injunction — a clear violation of the court order.

In a document filed late last week, the administration said it had recaptured fewer than 1,200 of the initial 2,100 wrongful amnesties. And, in a stunning admission, lawyers said they’d discovered another 500 amnesties they hadn’t known about before that also were sent after the Feb. 16 injunction.

“The government fully appreciates the urgency of the situation and is proceeding with expedited remediation,” the administration’s lawyers promised Judge Hanen.
The three-year permits have already been canceled in the government’s own computer systems, and have been changed to two-year authorizations, the lawyers said.
But Judge Hanen seemed miffed that the government has not yet collected all of the erroneous amnesties, saying he detected a “cavalier attitude” from the government about its bungle.
“The government has conceded that it has directly violated this court’s order in its May 7, 2015 advisory, yet, as of today, two months have passed since the advisory and it has not remediated its own violative behavior,” the judge wrote. “That is unacceptable and, as far as the Government’s attorneys are concerned, completely unprofessional.”
He set an Aug. 19 hearing, and said unless the government can fix things by July 31, each of the defendants named in the case — Mr. Johnson and his top lieutenants in the immigration agencies — would have to appear to explain themselves.
“Otherwise, the Court intends to utilize all available powers to compel compliance,” Judge Hanen wrote.
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The feds should be going door to door to sieze and incarcerate illegal aliens and put them on the fast track out of America!

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Feds Try to Repossess Obama Amnesty Cards Door-to-Door: Report


In this photo made Thursday, March 6, 2015, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent escorts a handcuffed undocumented immigrant convicted of a felony that was taken into custody during an early morning operation in Dallas, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

By Greg Richter | Wednesday, 15 Jul 2015 09:02 PM

Immigration officials will be going door-to-door to collect three-year legal residency cards granted after a federal judge issued an injunction against President Barack Obama's executive actions allowing them, The Washington Times reports.

Any who don't turn their cards in will have them terminated by July 31, the Times reports, citing a statement from the National Immigrant Justice Center.

The deadline was imposed by U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen, who blocked Obama's executive actions on February 16. As part of Hanen's ruling, no cards were supposed to have been issued until the case was resolved, but White House lawyers admitted they had been approving applications immediately after Obama's actions in November and the number was at about 100,000.

It was later learned that 2,100 applications were approved even after the judge issued his injunction at one point, then even later another 500 were discovered.

If all the cards cannot be retrieved by the deadline, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson may be required to appear before the judge to explain.

The administration unsuccessfully sought a stay of the judge's order in the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans in May and tried again last week.

The case was filed by 26 states who say Obama doesn't have the authority to grant amnesty to up to 5 million undocumented immigrants.

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/amnesty-cards-siezed-immigration/2015/07/15/id/657318/#ixzz3g4Qg3Qjo

by Caroline May
16 Jul 2015

The Obama administration is accelerating efforts to recoup three-year executive amnesty work permits it issued in violation of a federal judge’s injunction.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials will begin visiting Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) beneficiaries who received the illegal three-year work permits and have not yet returned them.

“USCIS officials will soon begin to visit the listed address of certain individuals who have not yet returned an invalid three-year employment authorization document (EAD) for the purpose of retrieving these EADs,” the agency explained in a statement. “USCIS has already attempted, or is in the process of attempting, to notify all recipients by mail and phone that the three-year EADs are no longer valid and must be immediately returned.”

According to the agency, officials will not be questioning people at the addresses they visit but rather retrieving the three-year work authorizations.

“Individuals who received these three-year EADs are not being penalized for requesting DACA, they are merely being reissued the correct two-year cards,” the agency added.

USCIS warns that those who do not return their three-year permits will find their DACA status terminated.

Judge Andrew Hanen — the judge presiding over 26 states’ legal challenge of executive amnesty, who issued the initial injunction — has said he will order top Obama immigration officials into court to explain the injunction violations if the agency has not recouped all the erroneously issued three-year work permits to the court’s satisfaction by July 31.

Hanen issued the injunction, halting Obama’s executive amnesty programs — expanded DACA and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) — in February. Prior to his injunction and after the Obama administration was issuing three-year work permits to DACA recipients, a part of the expanded executive amnesty DACA program.

While Hanen expressed anger that the administration started issuing three-year work permits prior to the official executive amnesty start dates without telling him, both sides have acknowledged that those post-injunction permits are illegal and must be recouped.

USCIS says about 2,100 three-year permits were issued post-injunction and another 500 were issued before the injunction but due to mail and address issues were mailed again after the injunction. All 2,600 are considered invalid. USCIS notes that the move does not apply to those three-year permits issued in advance of the injunction.

“This action does not apply to the approximately 108,000 three-year EADs that were approved and mailed by USCIS on or before the February 16, 2015, injunction date and that have never been returned or reissued by USCIS,” reads a USCIS fact sheet.

According to amnesty groups briefed on the matter, federal officials are slated to begin home visits Thursday in cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas and Houston. The groups say that there are about 1,000 outstanding three-year permits.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...-amnesty-docs/

The feds cannot even protect US Naval installations within USA borders. Do you or Judge Hanen really believe that they can handle this. If they claim to have done it, I am afraid reprints will be submitted as retrieved evidence.