{"id":22035,"date":"2014-12-05T12:57:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T17:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22035"},"modified":"2014-12-05T12:57:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T17:57:25","slug":"obama%e2%80%99s-immigration-amnesty-is-not-an-executive-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22035\/obama%e2%80%99s-immigration-amnesty-is-not-an-executive-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s Immigration Amnesty Is NOT an Executive Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My hat is off to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2014\/12\/head-fake-obama-never-signed-amnesty-order\/ \" target=\"_blank\"> Jerome Corsi<\/a> at <em>World Net Daily<\/em> for confirming that President Barack Obama\u2019s unilateral and unconstitutional immigration amnesty that affects up to five million illegal immigrants was not, in fact, given as part of an executive order.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, what Obama signed in Las Vegas on November 21 \u2013 the day after he announced his intent to grant a temporary halt to some deportations and provide work permits \u2013 were documents much different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne was a presidential proclamation creating a White House Task Force on New Americans and the other a presidential memorandum instructing the secretaries of State and Homeland Security to consult with various governmental and non-governmental entities to reduce costs and improve service in issuing immigrant and non-immigrant visas,\u201d reports Corsi.<\/p>\n<p>As Corsi explains, \u201cthe only Obama administration document relevant to the plan announced Nov. 20 is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/14_1120_memo_deferred_action.pdf \" target=\"_blank\">DHS memorandum<\/a> signed by [Homeland Security Secretary Jeh] Johnson titled \u201cExercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United States as Children with Respect to Certain Individuals Who Are the Parents of U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Getting into the ramifications of this revelation probably merits its own column, but it should be mentioned here that the Texas-led, <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22015\/texas-launches-17-state-lawsuit-against-obama%E2%80%99s-immigration-amnesty\/ \" target=\"_blank\">17 state lawsuit<\/a> challenging Obama\u2019s immigration amnesty already knew about this legal technicality and focuses its fire on Secretary Johnson\u2019s abuse of the notice-and-comment process required of any policy change. So far, Johnson\u2019s memorandum implementing Obama\u2019s amnesty has not appeared in the <em>Federal Register<\/em>, as required, and thus is in clear violation of the law.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned. The games are likely just beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My hat is off to Jerome Corsi at World Net Daily for confirming that President Barack Obama\u2019s unilateral and unconstitutional immigration amnesty that affects up to five million illegal immigrants was not, in fact, given as part of an executive order. Instead, what Obama signed in Las Vegas on November 21 \u2013 the day after [&hellip;]<\/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":[515,143,902,4117,981,4460],"class_list":["post-22035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-amnesty","tag-barack-obama","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-dhs","tag-immigration","tag-jeh-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22035","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=22035"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22044,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22035\/revisions\/22044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}