"We weren't trying to hide anything from the court in the first place, Skipper...I mean Judge," Gilligan said.
Posted on 08/20/2015 6:04:22 PM PDT by Elderberry
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — The Obama administration scrambled to satisfy a Texas judge it shouldn't be punished for violating his order freezing an executive action to loosen immigration rules. At a hearing Wednesday in federal court in Brownsville, government lawyers repeatedly apologized to U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen for mistakenly issuing 2,600 work permits after his order, and then making misleading statements on their compliance. Hanen froze the program after 26 states sued. "We apologize for those miscommunications and regret them,'" James Gilligan, a Justice Department attorney, told Hanen. "They were inadvertent and unintended." "But they were repeated," said Hanen. Gilligan replied that the government responded immediately once it realized it had misled the judge about the permits. "We weren't trying to hide anything from the court in the first place," Gilligan said. The administration said it has recovered all but 12 of the 2,600 permits. The White House has submitted multiple reports to Hanen detailing extensive efforts to recover the permits. Agents have repeatedly texted, called and e-mailed immigrants to turn in their improper papers, with federal agents following up door-to- door to retrieve stragglers, the government said. The states suing to block the program pressed Hanen to expand the government's recovery campaign to include 108,000 work permits issued before Hanen's freeze order. Hanen, an appointee of Republican President George W. Bush, gave both sides until Sept. 4 to suggest what punishment he should impose on the Obama administration if he decides he was intentionally misled. "I can just do nothing," the judge told the lawyers. Or he could force immigration officials to disclose the names and locations of the 108,000 immigrants so their permits can be clawed back, either by the U.S. or the states.
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Judge Hanan is an American hero, IMO.
Hanen folded weeks ago.
Since the entire Obama is good at lying, Judge Hanen should have the Texas Rangers follow up and see how many of those fraudulent work permits were actually retrieved. It is very improbable that only 12 were not.
If they were lying to him again, they need to be perp-walked out of the courthouse and headed fora sSouth Texas jail.
I would prefer to see government lawyers start getting thrown in jail for their lying.
There would be a lot less lying government lawyers if they all started seeing some of them behind bars for it.
Nothing the Obama regime does on immigration is “inadvertent and unintended” except when they tell the occasional truth about something.
Contempt of Court would be the first shot in curing this judicial disease that has infected much of the Obama legal environment.
I think there are insiders cooperating with the Judge’s people and the Plaintiffs. That’s how it became known.
Ted Cruz released a clue before the violations were public. He said the Obama administration was counterfeiting the documents and I believe Ted Cruz at his word. The only to know such information is via informants.
Work permits are manufactured with all the hologram and security features in Corbin, KY. I would hope the Rangers or their contract agents are keeping tabs with what’s going on.
Put some ice on it, Barry. You’ve finally run into a guy who doesn’t fold—the anti-Boehner/McConnell.
You and the duke should try “It’s Just Lunch”
This is an outright lie. No, I can't prove that but I would lay odds of 99 to 1 that it is simply a blatant lie.
It’s so sad that it has come to this... I can find no fault in that logic. The whole federal government is partisan and politicized to the core after six and a half years of Obama and nothing can be taken for granted.
Anyone who actually believes that this was a mistake doesn’t have a single brain cell in his/her head.
Not so. It's only your faith in America that's finished.
Lawyers should apologize only after mounting the scaffold while standing on the drop plate........
"We weren't trying to hide anything from the court in the first place, Skipper...I mean Judge," Gilligan said.
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