Posted on 12/04/2014 6:46:46 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Federal officials are hiring 1,000 permanent employees to open a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Virginia that will help implement President Obama’s recent executive orders on immigration.
“USCIS is taking steps to open a new operational center in Crystal City, a neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia, to accommodate about 1,000 full-time, permanent federal and contract employees in a variety of positions and grade levels,” the agency announced Monday in a bulletin flagged by Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.). “The initial workload will include cases filed as a result of the executive actions on immigration announced on Nov. 20, 2014.”
Sessions said that the bulletin emphasizes the need for Congress to withhold funding for the agency.
“Some have suggested that implementing this amnesty would not have a financial cost, but this action unmistakably demonstrates otherwise,” he said in the statement. “The President cannot spend money unless the Congress approves it, and certainly the Congress should not approve funds for an illegal amnesty.”
No doubt bypassing eVerify requirements.
This is what I was afraid of - the bureaucrats will move ahead and put the infrastructure in place for amnesty regardless of lawsuits & challenges from congress - Obama knows government never shrinks.
The ability of an agency to reprogram already appropriated funds is quite limited. Some reprogramming is allowed — it would be administratively nonsensical to entirely straightjacket management — but notification of the relevant subcommittees on the Hill is required, and Congress must consent to major changes. The same goes for creating new FTE’s. As a first step, Congress needs to make sure that Obama is dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s on administrative procedure. This is important because violations in this area, as I understand it, would be legally actionable and could be a direct road into court if Obama is short-circuiting procedure.
This CAN be defunded.
I wonder if they will work for no salary?
If Congress won’t put the money in the budget, how will they get paid?
RE: If Congress won’t put the money in the budget, how will they get paid?
Some pundits tell us that the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, is entirely self-funded by the fees that are paid by applicants and the statutes that authorize that agency are largely self-executing, meaning that there’s little that Congress could actually do to bring the program to a halt by “defunding” it as some have suggested.
If the government legalizes them, then e-verify is worthless. They will also be given SSNs entitling them to SS and Medicare benefits.
well here is something congress can refuse to fund?
RE: well here is something congress can refuse to fund?
Obama can VETO any funding bill without it. And then .. we’ll have a government shutdown fight all over again.
Planned and put in place long long ago ,it was Obama’s way or Obama’s way no matter what the GOP did
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