{"id":15611,"date":"2012-08-23T18:29:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T22:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15611"},"modified":"2012-08-23T18:29:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T22:29:58","slug":"ice-agents-sue-dhs-over-deferred-action-amnesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15611\/ice-agents-sue-dhs-over-deferred-action-amnesty\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE Agents Sue DHS Over “Deferred Action” Amnesty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just days after the California DMV announced it might use the Obama Administration’s “deferred action” program to grant driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants<\/a>, a group of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are suing to kill it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From Huffington Post:<\/p>\n

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Arizona immigration law author and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is representing 10\u00a0immigration agents in a lawsuit filed Thursday<\/a> against Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, for policies they say prevent them from doing their job of defending the Constitution.<\/p>\n

“They’re being ordered by their federal-appointee superiors to break federal law, or if they don’t break federal law, according to their orders they will be disciplined,” Kobach said Thursday on a call with reporters. “This is an absolutely breath-taking assertion of authority and an abuse of authority.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The complaint’s six causes of action give you a flavor of what Kobach means:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Directive Expressly Violates Federal Statutes Requiring the Initiation of Removals <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  2. The Directive Violates Federal Law By Conferring a Non-Statutory Form of Benefit, Deferred Action, to More than 1.7 Million Aliens, Rather Than a Form of Relief or Benefit that Federal Law Permits on Such a Large Scale <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  3. The Directive Violates Federal Law by Conferring the Legal Benefit of Employment Authorization Without Any Statutory Basis and Under the False Pretense of “Prosecutorial Discretion” <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  4. The Directive Violates the Constitutional Allocation of Legislative Power to Congress<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  5. The Directive Violates the Article II, Section 3, Constitutional Obligation of the Executive to Take Care That the Laws Are Faithfully Executed <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  6. The Directive Violates the Administrative Procedure Act Through Conferral of a Benefit Without Regulatory Implementation <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Just days after the California DMV announced it might use the Obama Administration’s “deferred action” program to grant driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, a group of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are suing to kill it. From Huffington Post: Arizona immigration law author and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is representing 10\u00a0immigration agents in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[515,143,3778,1553,981,1451],"class_list":["post-15611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-amnesty","tag-barack-obama","tag-deferred-action","tag-illegal","tag-immigration","tag-kris-kobach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15614,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15611\/revisions\/15614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}