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Topics => Illegal Immigration => Topic started by: IronDioPriest on April 24, 2013, 12:40:55 PM

Title: Federal Judge to BigSis: No authority for "discretion" enforcing immigration law
Post by: IronDioPriest on April 24, 2013, 12:40:55 PM
Judge to Janet Napolitano: You have to deport illegal immigrants (http://washingtonexaminer.com/judge-to-janet-napolitano-you-have-to-deport-illegal-immigrants/article/2528019)

Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano does not have the authority to refuse to enforce laws that require illegal immigrants to face deportation, according to the federal judge hearing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement union’s lawsuit against DHS.

“The court finds that DHS does not have discretion to refuse to initiate removal proceedings [when the law requires it],” U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor said today, per Business Week. O’Connor asked DHS and the ICE union to offer additional arguments before he makes a final ruling on the legality of President Obama’s “deferred action on childhood arrivals” (DACA) program, which invoked prosecutorial discretion as a means of allowing people to stay in the country if they would have qualified for amnesty under the DREAM Act, which never passed through Congress.

The judge’s comments come one day after Napolitano scolded the union, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill, for challenging the policy she and Obama have implemented.

“There are tensions with union leadership, unfortunately,” Napolitano told Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., yesterday. “Here’s what I expect as a former prosecutor and attorney general: that is that law enforcement agents will enforce the law in accordance with the guidance they are given [by] their superiors.”

Sessions faulted Napolitano for refusing to meet with the ICE officers’ union. “I have never heard of a situation in which a group of law officers sued their supervisor, and you, for blocking them from following the law,” he said. “They weren’t complaining about pay, benefits, working conditions—they were saying their very oath they took to enforce the law is being blocked by rules and regulations and policies established from on high, and that this is undermining their ability to do what they are sworn to do.”
Title: Re: Federal Judge to BigSis: No authority for "discretion" enforcing immigration law
Post by: Pandora on April 24, 2013, 12:44:58 PM
Good.  One more court order for Obongo, Nappy-head, and the rest of his merry band of thugs to ignore to zero, zip, nada consequences.
Title: Re: Federal Judge to BigSis: No authority for "discretion" enforcing immigration law
Post by: Predator Don on April 24, 2013, 03:37:14 PM
Until our congressional leadership ( ::hysterical::, I know) starts charging this administration, this is nothing more than an inconvience. The corruption is so great, the media coverup so complete.....and the people so asleep.
Title: Re: Federal Judge to BigSis: No authority for "discretion" enforcing immigration law
Post by: charlesoakwood on April 24, 2013, 04:00:11 PM

Bush did it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Charles_O%27Connor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Charles_O%27Connor)

Reed Charles O`Connor (born 1965) is a United States federal judge.

Born in Houston, Texas, O'Connor received a B.S. from the University of Houston in 1986 and a J.D. from South Texas College of Law in 1989. He was in private practice in Texas from 1989 to 1994 and an assistant district attorney with the Tarrant County District Attorney's Office in Fort Worth, Texas from 1994 to 1998. O'Connor then served as assistant United States Attorney of the Northern District of Texas from 1998 to 2007. From 2003 to 2007, he worked on the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

On June 27, 2007, O'Connor was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas vacated by A. Joe Fish. The United States Senate confirmed O'Connor's appointment on November 16, 2007, and he received his commission on November 21, 2007.

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Title: Re: Federal Judge to BigSis: No authority for "discretion" enforcing immigration law
Post by: IronDioPriest on April 24, 2013, 04:32:45 PM
I'd trade him for Roberts.
Title: Re: Federal Judge to BigSis: No authority for "discretion" enforcing immigration law
Post by: AlanS on April 24, 2013, 05:54:56 PM
I look for the regime to ignore the court.
Title: Re: Federal Judge to BigSis: No authority for "discretion" enforcing immigration law
Post by: AmericanPatriot on April 24, 2013, 05:59:46 PM
Not sure but I think it was Andrew Jackson said "enforce it"
Title: Re: Federal Judge to BigSis: No authority for "discretion" enforcing immigration law
Post by: Libertas on April 24, 2013, 06:55:24 PM
Until our congressional leadership ( ::hysterical::, I know) starts charging this administration, this is nothing more than an inconvience. The corruption is so great, the media coverup so complete.....and the people so asleep.

Leadership?!  Heh, Don is makin' a funny!   ::hysterical::
Title: Re: Federal Judge to BigSis: No authority for "discretion" enforcing immigration law
Post by: Predator Don on April 24, 2013, 07:51:13 PM
Until our congressional leadership ( ::hysterical::, I know) starts charging this administration, this is nothing more than an inconvience. The corruption is so great, the media coverup so complete.....and the people so asleep.

Leadership?!  Heh, Don is makin' a funny!   ::hysterical::


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