DHS To Grant Illegal Aliens “Unlawful Presence Waivers”
In its quest to implement stealth amnesty, the Obama Administration is working behind the scenes to halt the deportation of certain illegal immigrants by granting them “unlawful presence waivers.”
The new measure would apply to illegal aliens who are relatives of American citizens. Here is how it would work, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announcement posted in today’s Federal Register, the daily journal of the U.S. government; the agency will grant “unlawful presence waivers” to illegal aliens who can prove they have a relative that’s a U.S. citizen.
Currently such aliens must return to their native country and request a waiver of inadmissibility in an existing overseas immigrant visa process. In other words, they must enter the U.S. legally as thousands of foreigners do on a yearly basis. Besides the obvious security issues, changing this would be like rewarding bad behavior in a child. It doesn’t make sense.
But the system often causes U.S. citizens to be separated for extended periods from their immediate relatives,” according to the DHS. The proposed changes, first announced in January, will significantly reduce the length of time U.S. citizens are separated from their loved ones while required to remain outside the United States during the current visa processing system.
The administration also claims that relaxing the rule will also “create efficiencies for both the U.S. government and most applicants.” How exactly is not listed in the Federal Register announcement, which gives the public 60 days to comment. That’s only a formality since the DHS has indicated that the change is pretty much a done deal.
This appears to be part of the Obama Administration’s bigger plan to blow off Congress by using its executive powers to grant illegal immigrants backdoor amnesty. The plan has been in the works for years and in 2010 Texas’s largest newspaper published an exposé about a then-secret DHS initiative that systematically cancelled pending deportations. The remarkable program stunned the legal profession and baffled immigration attorneys who said the government bounced their clients’ deportation even when expulsion was virtually guaranteed.
In late 2011 a mainstream newspaper obtained internal Homeland Security documents outlining “sweeping changes” in immigration enforcement that halt the deportation of illegal aliens with no criminal records. This also includes a nationwide “training program” to assure that enforcement agents and prosecuting attorneys don’t remove illegal immigrants who haven’t been convicted of crimes.
Judicial Watch has been a front runner in investigating the Obama Administration’s stealth amnesty program by pursuing DHS records concerning “deferred action” or “parole” to suspend removal proceedings against a particular group of individuals. Last spring JW sued DHS to obtain information because the agency ignored a federal public records request that dates back to July 2010.
Readers Comments (145)
So Obama is telling the people of Mexico, you can break into the United States illegally and cut ahead of everyone else who’s waiting in line as long as you have a relative in the United States? Ridiculous. Probably 95% of illegals have at least one relative that’s an American. This is a prime example of Obama wanting to be a communist dictator. This is where the Republicans lose their base and independents. They need to attack Obama and stand up to him for not enforcing the laws.
The people of the United States don’t want a provision in our immigration laws that says you won’t get deported as long as you have a relative who’s an American. Obama hates the American people and wants his own law. This is exactly how communist dictators operate. They completely ignore the will of the people and do what they want.
I can’t wait until one of these damn liberals gets to be the victim of one of their Illegal benefit recipients.
Everyday I wake up, read the news and get sicker and sicker inside. Didnt we vote in the Republicans into the house to stop this ? They havent lifted a finger. The Republic is slipping away to the sounds of silence.
Just in time for the election… voters please.
Did I miss where Congress granted DHS the authority to provide waivers on immigration issues? Someone point me to that legislation, please.
We are no longer a nation of laws.
We are now a nation of gangsters.
The deal was “to protect our borders from invasion”, not “aid and abet the enemy”. Where’s that useless congress? How about they earn some of that ridiculous salary and represent some people here.
Kindly get it right, it’s DH(IN)S please!