New Obama Policy Warns Agents Not to Detain Illegal Immigrant Parents

http://www.washingtontimes.com ^ | Friday, August 23, 2013 | Stephen Dinan

[Whenifhow]

The Obama administration issued a policy late last week telling immigration agents to try not to arrest and deport illegal immigrant parents of minor children — a move that adds to the categories of people the administration is trying not to deport.

In a nine-page memo issued Friday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said agents should use “prosecutorial discretion” to try to avoid detaining parents and, if parents are detained, agents should make sure they have the ability to visit with their children or participate in family court proceedings.

Snip

“President Obama has once again abused his authority and unilaterally refused to enforce our current immigration laws by directing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to stop removing broad categories of unlawful immigrants,” said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Virginia Republican.

Mr. Goodlatte, whose committee is in charge of many of the immigration bills the House could consider this year and who is working on a legalization bill for young illegal immigrants, said the Obama administration’s move “poisons the debate” and shows that the president is trying to “politicize the issue” rather than work for a compromise bill.

[Whenifhow]

A year ago, she issued a policy granting tentative legal status to young illegal immigrants brought to the country as children, who call themselves Dreamers. That policy began accepting applications in August 2012 and as of the end of this July had approved legal status for more than 430,000 illegal immigrants. ICE agents and officers sued to try to block the policies, but a federal judge in Texas last month turned down their case. The judge said they were probably correct in arguing that the law requires them to arrest illegal immigrants, but he said he didn’t have jurisdiction because it was a matter for collective bargaining, not for the courts.

[Whenifhow]

“President Obama has once again abused his authority and unilaterally refused to enforce our current immigration laws by directing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to stop removing broad categories of unlawful immigrants,” said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Virginia Republican.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Gotta keep those ‘voting age’ illegals!

[Ray76]

Impeach him already.

[Ohioan]

More grounds for impeachment.

[moonshinner_09]

As long as Obama is allowed to manipulate the laws any new immigration laws passed should it ever come to be.Obama can at will make a policy change and make the immigration laws to what he thinks they should be and not what Congress voted on or what people of American wanted.It’s all about what Obama. wants