Posted on 01/27/2021 7:57:35 AM PST by SJackson
President Joe Biden is the illegal aliens’ best friend. He is asking Congress to provide a pathway to citizenship for the more than 11 million illegal aliens presently living in the United States. And to make the illegal aliens feel better about themselves, Biden is seeking a change in U.S. immigration laws to replace the phrase “illegal alien” with “noncitizen” to describe them.
Unless the Democrats eliminate the filibuster in the Senate, Biden is not likely to get his complete legislative package passed by Congress. “A mass amnesty with no safeguards and no strings attached is a nonstarter,” said Republican Senator Chuck Grassley.
However, Biden decided not to wait for Congress to act. He signed an executive order halting border wall construction. He also signed another executive order reversing the Trump administration’s “remain in Mexico” program for so-called asylum seekers waiting for U.S. hearings on their asylum pleas. “Remain in Mexico,” worked out with the cooperation of the Mexican government, was implemented as a practical solution to a vexing problem. It was designed as an alternative to either detaining the ostensible asylum-seekers in the United States until their amnesty applications could be heard by U.S. immigration judges or releasing them into communities across the country under the infamous “catch and release” policy of prior administrations. Biden’s executive order brings back the “catch and release” policy, endangering the safety of law-abiding Americans.
Open-borders President Joe Biden is creating through such executive orders and his pro-amnesty legislative agenda a super-strong magnet to pull many more illegal migrants into the United States.
Biden also signed an executive order that violates his presidential obligation under the Constitution to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” This order put in place a policy to unilaterally suspend removals of most illegal aliens for 100 days. It was a show of defiance against enforcing the immigration laws as written.
An advisory memorandum was issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on January 20th to guide the immigration agencies in carrying out Biden’s deportation suspension executive order. Couched dishonestly in the language of reprioritizing immigration law enforcement actions, the memorandum said that the immediate 100-day “pause on removals” would help "ensure we have a fair and effective immigration enforcement system focused on protecting national security, border security, and public safety."
Biden’s 100-day “pause on removals” does precisely the opposite. Even illegal aliens who were convicted of serious felonies and were already ordered to be removed from this country following a full and fair hearing would stand to benefit from the removal suspension.
Fortunately, a federal judge in Texas said not so fast, in response to a complaint filed by the state of Texas. U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton had the good sense and fidelity to the law to issue a temporary restraining order on Tuesday, blocking for now the implementation of Biden’s removal suspension edict nationwide for 14 days. Judge Tipton said that the Biden administration had failed “to provide any concrete, reasonable justification for a 100-day pause on deportations.” That’s an understatement.
The Biden DHS memorandum was so far out in left field that it refused to use the words “illegal alien,” which appear more than 30 times in U.S. immigration laws that the DHS is supposed to enforce. As far as the Biden administration is concerned, “illegal alien” is already expunged from the statute books even without any congressional action. Instead, the Biden DHS memorandum used the term “noncitizens.”
The DHS memorandum’s instructions on pausing compulsory removals of illegal aliens (apologies to the enforcers of political correctness for using the legally correct phrase ) did contain a few narrow exceptions. The pause did not apply to suspected terrorists, spies or others deemed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to pose a danger to the national security of the United States. Also, individuals illegally in the country who were “not physically present in the United States before November 1, 2020” would be out of luck under the DHS memorandum’s implementation guidelines. And there could be some scattered cases where an individualized determination is made that removal is absolutely required by law. But public safety is given short shrift.
Biden’s executive order suspending removals, along with the implementing DHS memorandum, contained no pause exception addressing generally the class of illegal aliens still in the United States who have been convicted of violent aggravated felonies such as murder or rape. Even many of those dangerous criminals already subject to removal orders issued prior to Biden’s executive deportation suspension would have been entitled to protection from immediate removal.
Judge Tipton has come to the rescue at least for now, temporarily stopping Biden’s deportation suspension from taking immediate effect. Judge Tipton needs to go further and stick a fork in Biden’s reckless deportation suspension executive order for good, which the Supreme Court will hopefully uphold.
Are they all doing the double face diaper thing?
President Le Petomane is just re-implementing the Bush Plan for North Mexico that had been in operation for 30 years.
The illegal alien inundation is completely BIPARTISAN!
Those who incite illegal immigration should be held responsible for the murders, rapes, thefts, diseases and drugs brought into the country.
..... Question: Are they coming in such large volumes from China that they actually need their own Language posted on these help beacon signs in Texas ????....
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IIRC, the border wall has been law for many years. It just wasn't funded properly until Pres. Trump took office. I don't see how an E.O. can over-ride approved Congressional legislation and signed into law (Bush when he had both chambers?) Who has standing to sue?
We need to start calling him Unpresident Biden. Not my original, saw it mentioned somewhere online.
Not to mention private contracts that have been entered into. Like the pipeline. Contracts, what are those. My guess there are numerous contractors with standing. On both sides of the border.
I was going to mention the contracts, but don't know how much authority the WH has to cancel such. I just know that the original Wall law has never been repealed. Maybe Hiden is thinking of stopping DOD funds, which would be within his power.
This Stealin Hiden is either insane, a genuine communist, or some Globalist really is pulling his strings. He seems determined to destroy the greatest nation in history that many have copied. Personally, I think it's his f*cking wife.
I believe a Supreme Court case, during Nixon’s time, found that if Congress passed legislation and funding the President was required to spend it whether he liked it or not. Don’t recall the issue.
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, required approval by both houses of Congress to impound the funds within 45 days. Otherwise, spend them. It may never have reached the Supreme Court.
Kinda moot since the approved Wall was never funded until Trump.
Moot because nothing will be done about it. But passed by Congress, funded by Congress, my reading of the bill requires Joe to request Congress to impound the funds. Maybe we should impeach him.
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