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DHS broke judge’s order, approved amnesty applications despite injunction
The Washington Times ^ | May 8, 2015 | Stepen Dinan

Posted on 05/08/2015 9:12:55 AM PDT by jazusamo

President Obama’s lawyers admitted to a federal judge late Thursday that they had broken the court’s injunction halting the administration’s new deportation amnesty, issuing thousands of work permits even after Judge Andrew S. Hanen had ordered the program stopped.

The stunning admission, filed just before midnight in Texas, where the case is being heard, is the latest misstep for the administration’s lawyers, who are facing possible sanctions by Judge Hanen for their continued problems in arguing the case.

The Justice Department lawyers said Homeland Security, which is the defendant in the case, told them Wednesday that an immigration agency had approved about 2,000 applications for three-year work permits, which was part of Mr. Obama’s new amnesty, even after Judge Hanen issued his Feb. 16 injunction halting the entire program.

Top Obama officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, had repeatedly assured Congress they had fully halted the program and were complying with the order.

“The government sincerely regrets these circumstances and is taking immediate steps to remedy these erroneous three-year terms,” the administration lawyers said.

The Justice Department didn’t respond to a request for comment Friday morning but Homeland Security officials said Mr. Johnson has asked his department’s inspector general to investigate what went wrong.

Homeland Security officials also said they’re going back to try to revoke the three-year permits and reissue them as two-year permits instead.

Judge Hanen had already been pondering whether to sanction the Justice Department lawyers after they admitted to misleading him — they said inadvertently — on more than 100,000 amnesty applications approved between the Nov. 20 date Mr. Obama announced the new program and the Feb. 16 date the judge issued his injunction.

Thursday’s filing, however, appears to be worse, since it breaks a direct injunction, and comes two months after the judge began...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; andrewhanen; daca; dapa; dhs; hanen; illegalimmigration; illegals; immigration; injunction; jehjohnson; judgehanen; obama
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To: jazusamo
Who is going to Prison?


41 posted on 05/08/2015 10:34:49 AM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
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To: Red Badger
"OH WELL, WHAT ‘S FOR LUNCH?....................."

Mooshells special two year old pork pot roast! With a side of Kale!
42 posted on 05/08/2015 10:54:39 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: xzins

At the moment they are too busy trying to find some way to blackmail him. It’s the Ci-cago way.


43 posted on 05/08/2015 11:59:10 AM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: Duke of Milan

Better Obama: “Andrew Hanen has made his decision. Now let him enforce it!”


44 posted on 05/08/2015 12:08:21 PM PDT by __rvx86 (Ted Cruz: Proving that conservative populism is a winning strategy. GO CRUZ!)
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To: jazusamo

GO STAIGHT TO JAIL!


45 posted on 05/08/2015 12:15:34 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: jazusamo

A lawless government


46 posted on 05/08/2015 12:33:57 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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To: jazusamo
I'm guessing there's a lot of thugs 'high up in the DHS... and like everyday criminals they feel they're above the law.

Here's what the thugs need to remember:

It's 549 days, 18 hours, and 40 minutes until Obama's out of office. And none of us will ever make this mistake again.

47 posted on 05/08/2015 1:17:12 PM PDT by GOPJ (When terrorists in body armor came to kill cartoonists the media stood with the terrorists.)
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To: GOPJ

Well said, agree.


48 posted on 05/08/2015 1:22:23 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: GOPJ
"And none of us will ever make this mistake again. "

But how are we going to stop single females from voting? There are millions now who will vote for Hillary SOLELY BECAUSE she has a VAGINA. Never mind Benghazi, illegal server and deletion of emails, illegal foreign donations, violations of RICO laws, Whitewater and Vince Foster's death, etc..

49 posted on 05/08/2015 1:26:43 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: GOPJ

None of *us* made that mistake before. But there are plenty who WILL happily make the same mistake again. And again. And again.


50 posted on 05/08/2015 1:35:31 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: EDINVA

It’s not that we don’t make mistakes it’s that we don’t wallow in the filth and hatred liberals wallow in.

It’s NOT a mistake when a judge tells you not to do it. That’s intentional. When Reagan made illegals citizens he was doing it as a kindness. Democrat lowlife filth are doing this to gather more democrat voters and to bring down the United States by bankrupting our country and keep wages low by pitting us against people who will work for nothing.

Can you see the difference.?


51 posted on 05/09/2015 7:12:25 AM PDT by GOPJ (When terrorists in body armor came to kill cartoonists the media stood with the terrorists.)
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To: EDINVA

Sorry - thought I was responding to a different thread...


52 posted on 05/09/2015 7:17:35 AM PDT by GOPJ (When terrorists in body armor came to kill cartoonists the media stood with the terrorists.)
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