Matthew boyle
Breitbart.com
Big Government
15 Jul 2014
…[Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff] Sessions cites another paragraph from that National Journal piece as well, in which Garrett reported that President Obama has “now ordered the Homeland Security and Justice departments to find executive authorities that could enlarge that non-prosecutorial umbrella by a factor of 10.”…
…Sessions, whose office hand-delivered the letter to every member of Congress Monday, wrote that this development from the Obama administration is “breathtaking.” The letter continued:
The action the President is reportedly contemplating would be a nullification of the Immigration and National Act by the Executive Branch of government. Indeed, it would be an executive nullification of our borders as an enforceable national boundary. By declaring whole classes of illegal immigrants beyond the reach of the law, it would remove the moral authority needed to enforce any immigration law, creating the very open-borders policy explicitly rejected by Congress and the people. And it would guarantee that the current illegal immigration disaster would only further worsen and destabilize.
…Sessions argues that all of this bickering in Washington is a facade that doesn’t address the real problem. To really fix the issue, he argues, politicians need to be willing to enforce immigration laws in America and stop dealing with special interests who want the border to remain unsecured and seek continually high levels of immigration, legal or illegal, given how it benefits them in the form of cheap labor.
“As you know, over the last five and a half years, the President has routinely bypassed Congress in order to suspend enforcement of our immigration laws,” Sessions wrote. “The most dramatic of these lawless directives was the President’s 2012 Deferred Action Program for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), in which the president implemented by executive fiat legislation that Congress has three times rejected.”
Sessions wrote that the president’s DACA program “has led to catastrophic results,” because it was “declaring to the entire world that America will not enforce its immigration laws against those who enter the country as minors” and that the U.S. will “freely grant them access to work permits and taxpayer resources.” …
…Sessions told his colleagues that “there is a clear path forward” from this problem in order to “prevent the continued dissolution of America’s borders.”…
The complete article, with video and a copy of Senator Sessions’ letter to Congress, is at Big Government.
Also at Big Government:
Leaked Intel Report: 95% of Migrants Expected to Receive Amnesty “Permisos” (video)
According to an “elite, law-enforcement sensitive El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC) intel report from July 7, 2014” that Breitbart Texas obtained, nearly every migrant federal officials interviewed said they thought U.S. law required Border Patrol agents to give them “free passes” (“permisos”) to enter and remain in the United States…
Also, Boehner: “I’ve Got Lots Of” Ideas on Border Crisis (video)
…“I expect by the end of this week we should have some answers. Also waiting to hear from our border working group,” Boehner continued. “Kay Granger (R-TX) and a number of members of the border working group were in Guatemala and Honduras over the weekend. And hopefully by the end of the week we’ll have a better idea of how we might move ahead.”
Boehner would not reveal his own ideas on what should be done to alleviate the border situation, but did say, “I’ve got lots of them.”…
At Breitbart Texas, Leaked Border Crisis Intel Shreds Narrative From Media and Obama Admin
HOUSTON, Texas—An elite, law-enforcement sensitive El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC) intel report from July 7, 2014 was leaked to Breitbart Texas and reveals that homicide rates in Central America suggest violence is likely not the primary cause of the surge of thousands of unaccompanied minors and incomplete family units illegally entering the United States…
Read the whole thing.
Update: Why Obama won’t take strong action in border crisis
…The president says a majority of the tens of thousands of families and unaccompanied children flooding across the southwestern border will be returned to their home countries. But his actions suggest that won’t really happen…
LINCOLN, Neb. (CBSDC/AP) — Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman believes federal authorities are conducting secret operations by sending immigrant children into states without the knowledge of state officials.
Heineman told Fox News he learned from Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., that 200 unaccompanied immigrant children were placed with relatives or sponsors in the state. Heineman says no federal officials notified them that would be happening…
