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ICE Agents File Lawsuit Against DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano; NumbersUSA Providing Financial Support

Updated Thursday, August 23, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT

On August 23, 2012, a group of 10 ICE agents and officers, led by ICE Council president Chris Crane, filed suit against DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and ICE Director John Morton seeking an injunction against the Napolitano Directive of June 15, 2012. FOX News broke the story shortly after 12 p.m. on Thursday. The lawsuit has been filed in the District Court for the Northern District of Texas, which is in the 5th Circuit. Kris Kobach is representing the agents and officers, and NumbersUSA is financing the effort.
The complaint asserts, and NumbersUSA agrees, that the DREAM Directive:

• Orders federal law enforcement officers, including the ICE plaintiffs, to violate duly-enacted immigration law, along with the oath of office they swore to uphold the laws and Constitution of the United States, under the guise of “prosecutorial discretion;”
• Is an unconstitutional exercise of legislative power by the Executive branch;
• Is an unconstitutional breach of the Executive branch’s duty to ensure that the laws are faithfully executed;
• Violates the Administrative Procedure Act, which requires DHS to implement new policies through the standard rule-making procedure.

In the complaint, the ICE agents and officers ask the court to vacate the unlawful and unconstitutional DREAM Directive and the unlawful parts of the Morton Prosecutorial Discretion Memo and enjoin Napolitano and Morton (and their subordinates) from implementing the DREAM Directive and from taking any adverse action against agents and officers who refuse to enforce it.
Press release
Full complaint as filed with the District Court for the Northern District of Texas
Sign the ICE Union Petition
List of Members of Congress who have expressed support for the ICE agents
Donate to NumbersUSA to help finance the ICE Agents' lawsuit
Visit your Action Board
FOX News: Immigration agents file suit against Napolitano over 'amnesty' program (video)
Washington Times: Immigration agents sue to stop Obama’s non-deportation policy Read more: Immigration agents sue to stop Obama's non-deportation policy




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We should be proud of these people for standing up for the laws of the land and against dictatorial rule!

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ICE Agents File Lawsuit Against DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano; NumbersUSA Providing Financial Support

Updated Thursday, August 23, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT

On August 23, 2012, a group of 10 ICE agents and officers, led by ICE Council president Chris Crane, filed suit against DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and ICE Director John Morton seeking an injunction against the Napolitano Directive of June 15, 2012. FOX News broke the story shortly after 12 p.m. on Thursday. The lawsuit has been filed in the District Court for the Northern District of Texas, which is in the 5th Circuit. Kris Kobach is representing the agents and officers, and NumbersUSA is financing the effort.
The complaint asserts, and NumbersUSA agrees, that the DREAM Directive:

• Orders federal law enforcement officers, including the ICE plaintiffs, to violate duly-enacted immigration law, along with the oath of office they swore to uphold the laws and Constitution of the United States, under the guise of “prosecutorial discretion;”
• Is an unconstitutional exercise of legislative power by the Executive branch;
• Is an unconstitutional breach of the Executive branch’s duty to ensure that the laws are faithfully executed;
• Violates the Administrative Procedure Act, which requires DHS to implement new policies through the standard rule-making procedure.

In the complaint, the ICE agents and officers ask the court to vacate the unlawful and unconstitutional DREAM Directive and the unlawful parts of the Morton Prosecutorial Discretion Memo and enjoin Napolitano and Morton (and their subordinates) from implementing the DREAM Directive and from taking any adverse action against agents and officers who refuse to enforce it.
Press release
Full complaint as filed with the District Court for the Northern District of Texas
Sign the ICE Union Petition
List of Members of Congress who have expressed support for the ICE agents
Donate to NumbersUSA to help finance the ICE Agents' lawsuit
Visit your Action Board
FOX News: Immigration agents file suit against Napolitano over 'amnesty' program (video)
Washington Times: Immigration agents sue to stop Obama’s non-deportation policy Read more: Immigration agents sue to stop Obama's non-deportation policy




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Everyone go to Numbers USA, sign in and sign the petition. By noon today they had nearly 60,000 signitures. Please do this and pass it on to everyone you know.

Immigration Agents File Suit Over Obama 'Amnesty' Program

Thursday, 23 Aug 2012 02:21 PM
By Newsmax Wires

Ten employees at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are suing the Obama administration to block a new program to let many young illegal immigrants avoid deportation and get a work permit.

The suit also claims that directives from the Department of Homeland Security and its secretary, Janet Napolitano, force agents to break the law by not arresting certain illegal immigrants.

Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state and an immigration adviser to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, is representing the employees. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in federal court in Dallas.

The 22-page filing, which names Napolitano and ICE Director John Morton as defendants, contends that the Obama administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals plan violates federal law.

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Napolitano has previously defended the plan.

The suit says the mandate "unconstitutionally usurps and encroaches upon the legislative powers of Congress."

Kobach equated the move to give thousands of illegal immigrants a reprieve to the failed Fast and Furious gun-walking operation.

"In both instances, the Obama administration ordered federal law enforcement agents to break the law, to ignore the laws that they're supposed to enforce, and, in the case of the ICE agents, to actually break federal laws that say you're supposed to deport certain people," he told Fox News."And in each case, the Obama administration seems to be doing so for political reasons."

Kobach is a co-author of the Arizona illegal immigration law.

Napolitano has in the past defended the mandate.

"These policies promote the efficient use of our resources ensuring that we do not divert them away from the removal of convicted criminals by pursuing the removal of young people who came to this country as children and who have called no other country home," she said.





Immigration Agents File Suit Over Obama 'Amnesty' Program