DHS Tries Halting Deportation of Illegal Aliens “Ethnically Profiled” by Cops

Judicial Watch ^ | October 29, 2015

[jazusamo]

Two disturbing cases highlight the serious problems with the nation’s immigration laws under the Obama administration; In one, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) accused a local police department of racial profiling for arresting two previously deported illegal immigrants and turning them over to federal authorities for removal. In the other, the Department of Justice (DOJ) charged a public school district with discrimination for verifying the immigration status of its employees.

The first case comes out of New Llano, a Louisiana town of about 2,500 near the Texas border. In the course of doing their job, a pair of police officers approached two men standing outside a motel and requested identification. The men—Jose Adan Fugon-Cano and Gustavo Barahona-Sanchez—could not produce valid ID and the officers detained them. It turns out that both are illegal immigrants who had been previously deported. Llano police turned them over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and both were eventually sent back to their native Honduras.

A local immigrant advocacy group filed a civil rights complaint on behalf of the men prior to their removal and DHS, the umbrella agency that oversees ICE, launched an investigation. The director of DHS’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL), Megan Mack, determined that the illegal aliens had been ethnically profiled by police and should not be removed from the country. In an electronic mail to ICE Director Sarah Saldaña, Mack writes that “CRCL has significant concerns with the actions of local law enforcement in this matter.” She also writes that “it seems clear that the arrest was based on their ethnicity and the way they were awaiting pickup for a job” and orders ICE to release both men from custody and seek “closure of their removal actions.”

The second case involves a large public school district in south Florida. Before hiring employees to work in the taxpayer-funded enterprise, the district of about 350,000 mostly Hispanic students likes to verify that candidates are in the country legally. According to the Obama administration this is illegal and discriminates against employees in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). So, the DOJ’s bloated Civil Rights Division went after Miami Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) for discrimination and essentially forced it to stop checking if employees are authorized to work in the U.S.

The department’s investigation, conducted by the Civil Rights Division’s Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC), found that MDCPS required non-U.S. citizens, but not similarly-situated U.S. citizens, to present specific documents to prove their employment eligibility, a DOJ announcement states. “The INA’s anti-discrimination provision prohibits employers from making specific documentary demands based on citizenship or national origin when verifying an employee’s authorization to work,” according to the DOJ.

As part of a settlement with the feds, MDCPS will pay a $90,000 civil penalty and establish a $125,000 fund to compensate individuals who lost wages because the district checked their immigration status. The agreement also forces the district to undergo “compliance monitoring” for three years and allow the DOJ’s Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices to train students on “worker rights.”

The Obama DOJ has also gone after private businesses for verifying workers’ immigration status. Last month Judicial Watch reported on a case involving a Nebraska meat packing company accused by the agency of discrimination for requiring employees to furnish proof that they are eligible to work legally in the U.S. The business, Nebraska Beef Ltd, was forced to pay a $200,000 civil penalty and provide uncapped back pay for individuals who lost wages because they couldn’t prove they are in the country legally. The company also had to agree to long term “compliance monitoring” by the feds.

[jazusamo]

This is so ridiculous. It's against the law for an employer to hire an illegal alien but the DOJ Civil Rights Division fines employers for asking for proof they're here legally.

Only in this this lawless 0bama administration.

Penalties for Employers Hiring Illegal Immigrants

[Iron Munro]

DHS Tries Halting Deportation of Illegal Aliens “Ethnically Profiled” by Cops

DHS Tries Halting Deportation of Illegal Alien Democrat Voters Before 2016 Election

[vette6387]

And yet, our Congress sits there in DC “playing with themselves” at out expense and failing to address these compelling issues!

[Vigilanteman]

Well, this should give a free pass to just about anyone but the Irish nannies.

[Jacquerie]

In the face of seven years of high crimes and felonies, we’re told to just keep voting.

That’s not enough.

[jazusamo]

Absolutely right, Congress should be screaming bloody murder but they ignore it.

[I want the USA back]

Our fearless leader really wants his buddies to stay in this country.

[Lazamataz]

Except for a scant handful, Congress is all-in.

[Lazamataz]

I think the Founding Fathers actually made a mistake in crafting the country.

They provided no 'controlling legal authority' except Impeachment, and if Congress is also corrupt, what then?

There should be a political branch known as Overseers, who have no powers whatsoever, except for removal of the corrupt.

[Liz]

US immigration laws under the Obama administration: DHS accused a local police department of racial profiling for arresting two previously deported illegal immigrants and turning them over to federal authorities for removal.

Homeland Security seeks $41.2 billion budget for 2016
February 4, 2015 By BioPrepWatch Reports

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced a $41.2 billion budget request Monday for the 2016 fiscal year.

The budget would improve the unity of effort at the department, Johnson said, focusing on “harmonizing DHS business processes.” Along with the budget, a new Common Appropriations Structure was also submitted to Congress, which would standardize financial planning, programming and budgets for all DH agencies, Johnson said.

There are five areas the department focuses on each year, and the budget is in alignment with those five missions, Johnson said.

<><> The first mission is to prevent terrorism and enhance security in the country by implementing security for the land, air and at sea.

<><> The next mission is to secure and manage the country’s borders, and reduce the number of illegal immigrants and amount of contraband getting into the United States.

<><> The third mission includes enforcing and administering immigration laws and providing safe and secure detention of illegal immigrants in federal custody if they are a flight risk or a public safety concern.

<><> The fourth mission deals with safeguarding and securing cyberspace, which impacts economic security. The 2016 budget would invest in technology and staff to reduce cybercrime and improve the security of federal network defenses.

<><> The fifth mission, Johnson said, is to strengthen national preparedness and resilience so the country can prepare and respond to any type of disaster.

Johnson said before Congress approves any funding for the next fiscal year lawmakers should approve funding for the current year.

“The President’s FY 2016 Budget provides the resources necessary for the Department of Homeland Security to further strengthen our efforts to fulfill our wide-ranging missions, while also being agile and vigilant in the face of ever-evolving threats and recent world events,” Johnson said. “But prior to acting on the FY 2016 Budget, I urge Congress to fully fund DHS for the rest of this fiscal year, as the current continuing resolution is disruptive, creates uncertainty, and impedes efficient resource planning and execution.”

SOURCE http://bioprepwatch.com/news/homeland-security-seeks-41-2-billion-budget-for-2016/340791/

MUST BE HIGH TIME TO AUDIT DHS

[lowbridge]

“This is so ridiculous. It’s against the law for an employer to hire an illegal alien but the DOJ Civil Rights Division fines employers for asking for proof they’re here legally.

Only in this this lawless 0bama administration.”

Not only in the Obama administration. Such is the topsy turvy, backwards world of liberalism.

[Liz]

TAX-PAYING AMERICANS NEED TO GO THIS ROUTE to nail these self-serving corrupt govt officials. like Obama and Johnson,imperiling taxpayers and undermining US ntl security.

BACKSTORY The 1980 Georgia General Assembly was concerned about “the increasing sophistication of various criminal elements on the public payroll” (including those in elective and appointive office). The GA Assembly then adopted the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), patterned after a similar federal law.

(RICO is routinely used to try to prove that a legal business was being used for illegal means, and, in at its inception, RICO was used to prosecute drug traffickers or organized crime members).

In recent years prosecutors have applied RICO to crooked government officials: (1) those accused of using their public offices for personal gain, and, (2) tax-paid officials of govt agencies using public monies to flout the law.

To bring a case under Georgia’s RICO law, there must be at least two underlying felonies — such as fraud, bribery, witness tampering (among other felonies).

RICO allows prosecutors to include multiple defendants charged with various crimes in the blanket indictment, and to charge that govt employees, publicy-funded and publicly-sanctioned entities were allegedly part of an ongoing criminal enterprise.

EXAMPLE A govt official commits two felonies by (1) accepting, and, (2) filing falsified documents.

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HERE'S THE PATHWAY TO LAUNCH---Texas took the lead w/ 26 state AG's, successfully arguing that Obama's beatified DACA/DAPA's were made more desirable employees than US citizens.

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Any public official using tax dollars to flout that law is a lawbreaker: in cases where govt officials on the public payroll not giving public notice is a violation at the federal level of the 1946 Administrative Procedure Act, which requires notice in the Federal Register. Laws demand that taxpayers have the opportunity to submit views in writing.

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NOTE If proof is established that RICO'ed criminal public officials impaired the commercial and economic activity of the region, that could also be prosecutable under the Hobbs Act.

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UPDATE This Ga law tried and convicted 27 school personnel who are now in jail.

[jazusamo]

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[jazusamo]

Good post, right on.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

What country are they coming from????????? We need to send back some little old ladies, some Asians students, and a couple of Irish decedents to even things out? Just like at the airport, you can’t profile the guy with turban, a ticking suitcase, and who is yelling something about Allah Snackbar.

[Clintonfatigued]

Events like this is a big reason why Donald Trump is doing so well.

[NFHale]

Trump and Ted Cruz are the only ones with the balls to say it out loud.

Middle America is feeling it as well. And these guys are giving voice to it.

Finally.

[jazusamo]

You’re both dead on the mark.

[amorphous]

MUST BE HIGH TIME TO AUDIT DHS

Good luck with that!

DOJ Red Stamp’s FBI Blocking Information From Inspector General

[Lucy Hamilton]

It’s bewildering to me why the Republicans just sit on their hands.

Have they even commented on this latest outrage?