Thread: BLOG: Trying to H.A.L.T. Obama’s backdoor amnesty

Posted: 10:27 a.m. Friday, Sept. 14, 2012
By Chuck Muth
foxreno.com

Let the Amnesty begin.

"The Obama administration has begun approving young illegal immigrants' requests to stay in the country under President Barack Obama's deferred action program, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Tuesday," Jen Epstein of Politico reports this week.

"Three months after Obama announced the program and one month after the department began taking applications, more than 72,000 people have made requests for two years of deferred action - which can be renewed - and a work permit.”

President Obama’s backdoor Amnesty program is causing a meltdown in our nation’s efforts to secure our borders. As crazy as it sounds, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are actually being threatened with disciplinary action by their superiors for…enforcing our immigration laws!

In El Paso, two ICE agents doing an inmate screening discovered an ILLEGAL alien who had been arrested for domestic assault. The ILLEGAL alien assaulted an officer while trying to escape. Then amazingly he was released according to Obama’s order -- and the two ICE officers were questioned for possible disciplinary action.

An ICE agent in Delaware was threatened with suspension if he didn’t release an ILLEGAL alien caught during a criminal investigation who had 10 prior traffic violations.

Ten ICE agents have now filed a lawsuit against Obama’s Amnesty -- including the president of the ICE union -- because it forces them to either violate the law or face disciplinary action.

Though the law says illegal aliens are to be held, the president is telling ICE agents to ignore the law. He is claiming the power to decide America’s immigration policy without the consent of Congress or the American people.

Obama’s goal is to create a de facto Amnesty for illegal immigrants by not enforcing the law…then bully us later into submitting to his wishes to make them citizens.

The president’s disregard for our laws and our Constitution must be stopped. That’s why it’s so important that Congress pass the HALT Act (HR 2497) - “Hinder the Administration’s Legalization Temptation” - sponsored by Rep. Lamar Smith.

“DHS’s plan to open the door to mass administrative amnesty is a rejection of Congress’ constitutional rights and shows utter disdain towards the wishes of the American people,” Smith explained in a July hearing on the HALT Act.

The HALT Act would stop the president’s backdoor Amnesty effort dead in its tracks by cutting off funding, and Citizen Outreach has set up an online micro-site (http://bit.ly/QIUehM) where people can add their name to the list of supporters.

It’s one thing not to agree with the nation’s current laws; it’s another thing altogether not to enforce laws you don’t like or change them without going through Congress. The president’s effort in this regard must be HALTed.

BLOG: Trying to H.A.L.T. Obama

H.R.2497 - HALT Act



To suspend until January 21, 2013, certain provisions of Federal immigration law, and for other purposes.

HR 2497 IH
112th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2497
To suspend until January 21, 2013, certain provisions of Federal immigration law, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 12, 2011


Mr. SMITH of Texas (for himself, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. ROYCE, Mr. CAMPBELL, Mr. AKIN, Mr. MARCHANT, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mrs. MYRICK, Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee, Mr. JONES, Mr. WOMACK, Mr. YOUNG of Florida, Mr. BUCHANAN, Mr. FORBES, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. ROE of Tennessee, Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado, Mr. GARY G. MILLER of California, Mr. GALLEGLY, Mr. CARTER, and Mr. HUNTER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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A BILL
To suspend until January 21, 2013, certain provisions of Federal immigration law, and for other purposes.

• Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

• This Act may be cited as--
  
  • (1) the ‘Hinder the Administration’s Legalization Temptation Act’; or
    (2) the ‘HALT Act’.
  
  

SEC. 2. SUSPENSION OF EFFECTIVENESS OF CERTAIN LAWS.

(a) Waiver of Inadmissibility of Aliens Unlawfully Present- Section 212(a)(9)(B)(v) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(9)(B)(v)) is suspended during the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on January 21, 2013.
(b) Parole- Section 212(d)(5)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(d)(5)(A)) is suspended during the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on January 21, 2013, except to the extent that the discretionary authority conferred under such section is exercised for the purpose of paroling an alien into the United States--

• (1) to be tried for a crime, or to be a witness at trial, upon the request of a Federal, State, or local law enforcement agency;
  (2) for any other significant law enforcement or national security purpose; or
  (3) for a humanitarian purpose where the life of the alien is imminently threatened.

(c) Cancellation of Removal and Adjustment of Status for Certain Nonpermanent Residents- Section 240A(b)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1229b(b)(1)) is suspended during the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on January 21, 2013.
(d) Designation for Temporary Protected Status- No foreign state may be designated or re-designated under section 244(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1254a(b)) during the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on January 21, 2013. The preceding sentence shall not be construed to affect any extension of a designation under paragraph (3)(C) of such section, if the designation was made prior to the date of the enactment of this Act.
(e) Definition of Unauthorized Alien- Section 274A(h)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1324a(h)(3)) is deemed amended during the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on January 21, 2013, by striking ‘, or by the Attorney General’.
(f) Deferred Action; Extended Voluntary Departure- The Secretary of Homeland Security may not grant deferred action or extended voluntary departure to any alien during the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on January 21, 2013, except to the extent that such grant authority is exercised for the purpose of maintaining the alien in United States--

• (1) to be tried for a crime, or to be a witness at trial, upon the request of a Federal, State, or local law enforcement agency;
  (2) for any other significant law enforcement or national security purpose; or
  (3) for a humanitarian purpose where the life of the alien is imminently threatened.

(g) Regulations-

• (1) IN GENERAL- The following provisions of title 8, Code of Federal Regulations, are suspended during the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on January 21, 2013:
  
  • (A) Section 274a.12(a)(11).
    (B) Section 274a.12(c)(11).
    (C) Section 274a.12(c)(14).
    (D) Section 274a.12(c)(16).
    (E) Section 274a.12(c)(1.
  
  (2) REFERENCES- Any reference in paragraph (1) to a section of the Code of Federal Regulations shall be construed to be a reference to that section and any successor section.

(h) Treatment of Certain Benefits- In the case of any immigration benefit granted during the period beginning on July 12, 2011, and ending on the date of the enactment of this Act under any authority suspended under subsection (b), (e), (f), or (g), the benefit is revoked as of the date of the enactment of this Act

http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/...ill%20Text.pdf

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h2497/text