Oh yeah This is going to be one UGLY fight. Scroll down and read about the "HALT ACT" They tryin to squeeze us to death. I don't think such a bill could pass. Obama vs. Smith its on!!

http://micevhill.com/


Chairmen Smith and Aderholt Write Secretary Napolitano Warning Against "Administrative Amnesy" They Believe is Planned or Underway

By Micheal E. Hill
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 -- 7:00 pm EDT

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) and House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security Chairman Robert Aderholt (R-AL) have written to Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano accusing the Obama Administration of circumventing Congress by using executive branch authority to allow illegal immigrants to remain in the United States. The two chairmen demanded that the Secretary "halt any current or planned administrative actions that will result in mass legalization of illegal immigrants and that imply that immigration law should not be fully enforced." The two chairmen expressed their concerns in a July 5, 2011, five page-long letter that they sent to the Secretary and released to the public.

Chairmen Smith and Aderholt indicated in their letter that their concerns were first raised last year when an internal, unreleased memorandum on forms of administrative immigration relief available to the Administration was leaked to Congress. They indicate that their concerns were expanded with the release on June 17, 2011, of a memorandum on prosecutorial discretion from ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton and the release on the same date of a memorandum from ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton on prosecutorial discretion for victims of and witnesses to domestic violence. The two chairmen called the Morton memoranda, in particular, "a grossly irrresponsibile expansion of the use of prosecutorial discretion for the apparent purpose of administrative amnesty" and asserted that, "[u]ltimately, these memos could potentially make millions of deportable illegal and criminal immigrants eligible for administrative amnesty."

Chairmen Smith and Aderholt expressed concern in their letter "that DHS continues to use the excuse of 'limited resources' as a justification for its flagrant disregard of the law" and they requested that "ICE utilize the extensive resources available to rigorously enforce the immigration laws of the United States and that ICE's future budget requests include the funds necessary to effectively support the men and women of ICE in execurting their critical mission."

The Smith/Aderholt letter comes just two weeks after Chairman Smith sent a "Dear Colleague" letter to Members of the U.S. House of Representatives uring them to join him in cosponsoring the “HALT (Hinder the Administration’s Legalization Temptation) Act”, which he plans to introduce in the U.S. House of Representatives in the coming days.

According to the Smith "Dear Colleague" letter, the HALT Act would prevent the Obama Administration from --

granting parole (except in narrow circumstances)
issuing deferred action (except in narrow circumstances)

issuing extended voluntary departure to removable aliens

granting work authorization to aliens on a discretionary basis

granting TPS to any new groups of aliens

waiving the three and 10 year bars to admittance for aliens who have been illegally present in the U.S.

granting cancellation of removal to illegal immigrants.

The Smith "Dear Colleague" letter indicates that the bill "will restore these powers to the next president whom the American people elect – on January 22, 2013."

Smith asserted in that letter that, "[b]ecause of the Obama Administration’s record, it cannot be trusted with these powers." He posed the question, "How do we handle extraordinary humanitarian situations that might arise in the interim?" And he answers it by asserting, "Congress can always act by passing private bills to help individual aliens in the U.S. or outside the U.S. when we deem it wise, just and prudent."