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)
Get ready for the titlewave of Ilegals who will now come crashing across the border. Its like a game. the simply have to run over here now, and when they get to their relives house, they yell “Not It!!” and get a free pass.
and now will they get a free pass on E-verify, so they can easly take a job away from an American? Last time I checked unemployment was still above 8% nationally, 11% in California. With the California DREAM(nighmare) Act, they are taking away grants, scolorships and collage admission away from Americans, why not?
Here you are, Romney. Another ready-made election platform!
Please don’t fall for this. All folks who try to get back in at the Juarez consulate are getting a 10 year ban. They are NOT getting back in. My daughter’s husband had been deported 2 years ago, she is a multi generation American citizen. She and both of my grandsons have asthma. Son in law was main provider, lived in the US over half his life. Deported on a minor traffic violation. Had a lawyer, wanted to do it the right way (not jump the border). Now they are in Mexico; I am with them in a town that often has no water, occasionally no electricity, Doesn’t matter if you have a lawyer, this is all for votes, there is NO amnesty. Oh, my daughter contacted LaRaza during her 2 year try to get her husband back in the US…they never gave her the courtesy of a response.
That is typical for Janet N. and obamacommie. If you are a patriotic American citizen that works, pays bills without government assistance, and believes in the Constitution then you are the enemy of obama the usurper. If however, you are a criminal, an illegal alien or someone that harbors ill feeling against the ideals set forth in our founding documents, then you are a-ok with comrade obama and Reich Marshal Napolitano. On Nov.3rd when obamacommie is defeated, we can relax a little….but don’t get too comfortable because he will still have 2 1/2 months to try and fulfill his dreams of a socialist dictatorship…or kill our country while trying.
By the way, I called the local office of Homeland Security to report a breach of security. On the weekend.
All I got was…..the janitor.
Homeland Security is a f****** JOKE.
These pigs do not deserve to govern.
I urge all citizens to resist in all ways possible.
Try filing a ‘formal comment’ with the federal register morons. You get an ‘undocumented page’ message.
If this is the case, why have a Home Land Security Agency at all? why not save ourselves a lot of money and just let the Armed forces secure hour homeland. Which exactly what they are supposed to do.
I think Obama is on the verge of a breakdown and he deserves it. The Canadian PM told him yesterday when Obama asked him to give a good word for him. He told him he would not get mixed up in USA politics.