Posted on 05/24/2015 9:27:01 PM PDT by upchuck
The Justice Department’s latest filings in the immigration lawsuit brought by 26 states in the Southern District of Texas are a little hard to believe—and somewhat comical, in a way.
Back in February, Judge Andrew Hanen issued a preliminary injunction against the implementation of President Obama’s executive orders on immigration. Now, in an attempt to explain why the injunction was violated, Leon Rodriguez, director of the U.S. Customs and Immigration Services, has outlined in an affidavit a long list of instructions and orders he gave to implement Hanen’s order.
The main excuse given for USCIS’s issuing three-year deferrals and Employment Authorization Documents to 2,000 illegal immigrants after the injunction was in place is that its computer system failed. But fear not. Rodriguez is “taking steps, including the modification of USCIS computer systems, to further minimize the potential for human error that could lead to unintended” violations of the injunction “in future DACA cases, regardless of the circumstances.” (There is no indication whether the autonomous computer system that made these errors is named “HAL.”)
Rodriguez does admit that USCIS “should have exercised greater management oversight of the efforts to halt the production and issuance of three-year notices and EADs.” But that’s not really much of an admission—there is no question thaat USCIS violated Judge Hanen’s injunction despite Rodriguez’s self-proclaimed “clear intent to stop the approval or issuance” of these documents. Rodriguez assures the judge that USCIS will get to the bottom of this, his own failure, noting that DHS has asked its inspector general to “investigate the circumstances” of what happened.
The Justice Department filed a second affidavit, from Donald W. Neufeld, associate director for service center operations at USCIS, supporting Rodriguez. Keep in mind that the administration’s main justification for the president’s 2012 program for immigrants who arrived as children (DACA) and for his expanded 2014 program (DAPA) is that, by exercising prosecutorial discretion to legalize illegal immigrants under these programs, DHS could focus on removing the most dangerous aliens—those who are a threat to national security or public safety.
Yet Neufeld blames DHS’s unlawful issuance on “recently discovered errors in its identification and tracking of cases decided under the 2012 DACA” program. In other words, DHS violated Judge Hanen’s injunction because of tracking errors in its computer system — the same system that supposedly will enable DHS to identify the “most dangerous” illegal immigrants and distinguish them from all of the others receiving benefits under the DACA and DAPA programs.
In fact, while it has admitted to erroneously issuing prohibited deferrals and EADs to 2,000 illegal immigrants, USCIS isn’t even sure that is the final number. According to Neufeld’s affidavit, his “efforts” to “identify all cases in which individuals” were wrongly issued these documents “remain ongoing.” So the total number of cases “may change from the estimates previously provided to the Court.”
When this “computer error” admission is combined with the May 4 inspector general report that DHS “does not gather and analyze prosecutorial discretion data” on DACA participants, it makes it difficult for the Justice Department to credibly argue that the DACA and DAPA programs will enable the administration to concentrate its efforts on deporting the most dangerous illegal immigrants. As Texas and the states say in a brief filed on May 20, these “explanations” by the government “further confirm the unwieldiness of the DAPA/DACA bureaucracy—so large and complex that not even Defendants have a full grasp of what their machinery is doing.”
No, it wasn’t accidental.
like I said either Obama or Hillary can throw a bunch of puppies in a sack into the ocean and still get 47 percent of the vote. There is 3 or 4 % that we can swing our way to win the election.
Yeah, accidentally on purpose.
It's beginning to seem like the government isn't capable of operating computers.
Wouldn’t surprise me if a folder was mailed to Judge Hanen which includes audio of his phone calls, print-outs of his Emails, and even private conversations in his own home.. It seems no one is immune from blackmail and he’s been VERY slow to respond on this matter. Have they threatened him with blackmail already?
the ONLY thing the boy and his cabal have done by accident since it became present, is to tell the truth...
I surely hope DoD has better people than the ones I've encountered, or we're pretty much doomed.
accidently?? hahaha
Luckily for them, I am not the judge in these cases (Nor any others) I would throw these lying SOBs in jail for 30 days right out of the courtroom. On the spot.
I wonder what Judge Hanen would have to say about the issue.
I was being a bit sarcastic given all the very convenient computer glitches the 0bama admin. and Hillary have had lately.
I can always hope they will lose all record of my existence though.
if my 70 yr old mother in florida understood that he violated the order... the president of the united states had better know
No. Government IT people are hopelessly inept.
No accident!
Like the other day when he called Michelle Michael!
The Obama regime is a lawless regime.
If this is ‘accidental’....I’m Rocky the Flying Squirrel(...and I’m not!)
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