Matthew Boyle
The Daily Caller
6/15/2012
Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King said Friday that he plans to sue the Obama administration to halt implementation of its newly announced selective illegal immigration law enforcement policy. He told Mike Huckabee on the former Arkansas governor’s radio program Friday that he successfully sued his own state’s governor — and won — over a similar separation-of-powers issue.
“I will tell you that — I’m not without experience on this — I’m prepared to bring a suit and seek a court order to stop implementation of this policy,” King said
“I have done it once in the past successfully when then-Governor Tom Vilsack thought he could legislate by executive order — and the case of King vs. Vilsack is in the books. And that individual, by the way, is now the Secretary of Agriculture. I wonder if he’s not counseling the president on his legal proceedings.”
Huckabee followed up, asking King: “You plan to sue this administration for implementing something that you believe should have required legislative process and approval?”
“That is correct,” King replied
The Iowa Republican is vice-chairman of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
On Friday morning, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the Obama administration’s plan to selectively enforce illegal immigration law by refusing to deport illegal aliens brought to the U.S. as “young children” — effectively an administrative version of the DREAM Act…
The article, with audio, continues at The Daily Caller.
Related: Allen West on New Obama Immigration Rule: ‘Backdoor’ Way of Letting Undocumented Immigrants Vote?
On Friday morning, President Barack Obama announced an executive order to cease the deportation of young immigrants who arrived in America before age 16 and allow them to apply for work permits so long as they have no criminal history and meet other criteria. In response, Congressman Allen West(R-FL) told Fox News that he sees this as a possible “backdoor” opportunity for the White House to eventually allow undocumented immigrants to vote.
The congressman told Martha MacCallum that the president’s executive order “shows that we are getting away from government that is based upon the consent of the American people, and we’re starting to live under a rule by edict or executive order.”…
BREAKING: Obama To Institute Portion Of DREAM Act Via Executive Fiat
Obama decrees some illegals are more illegal than others
Napolitano: U.S. immigration program wasn’t meant for ‘relief beneficiaries’
Gangster-in Chief Obama Bypasses Congress – Grants Immunity to Illegal Alien Children
Dictator Obama Steps Over Congress, Gives Amnesty to 800,000 Illegals
Obama enacts the Dream Act — on his own, evading Congress
Occupy Open Borders: Obama delivers 800,000 more illegal alien deportation waivers
Hispandering Obama Bypasses Congress
It’s not “amnesty,” you alarmist bitter-clingers…
Obama Seeks to Nullify our Immigration Laws
Obama asserts authority he knows he never had
President Obama occupies some face time to discuss his ‘Occupy Open Borders’ announcement
Pro-Amnesty Group: Obama’s Unilateral Decision To Halt Deportations A “Dream Come True”…
Update: See our article from June 2011, DREAM Act: Obama passes amnesty by executive order
Update 2: Obama gives young illegal aliens de facto amnesty, say critics
While practicing the fine art of “linguistic gymnastics,” the Obama administration on Friday blessed an estimated 800,000 young, illegal aliens with a bite of the amnesty apple, according to critics of President Barack Obama’s immigration enforcement record.
In an announcement sure to create controversy and anger many Americans, President Obama on Friday announced that effective immediately, certain young people who were brought to the United States as young children, do not present a risk to national security or public safety, and meet several key criteria will be considered for “relief from removal from the country or from entering into removal proceedings.”
Speaking from the White House Rose Garden, President Obama told reporters that illegal aliens who demonstrate that they meet his administration’s criteria will be eligible to receive deferred action for a period of two years, subject to renewal, and will be eligible to apply for work authorization…
Meanwhile, “WE are not amused…”: Obama Raises His Voice, Scolds Reporter During Immigration Speech.
Daily Caller reporter Neil Munro shouted a question at President Obama today in the Rose Garden, asking, “Mr President, why do you favor foreign workers over Americans?”
CAJ note: Work? Work?! Good luck with that, Kids. There are 50 year old tech executives doing those jobs thanks to the rest of Obama’s social engineering: Weekly Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Rise
Update 3: Sheriff Joe: Arrest Obama’s Illegals
The Left’s Democrat-Media-Complex Breaks Out With Huge Open Borders Push
The Suddenly-Less-Deferential Press a collection of related links at Instapundit.
