2K 3yr Permits issued after Injunction

Malign0n · 05-08-2015, 02:57 PM

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The government "erroneously" doled out about 2,000 expanded immigrant work permit authorizations under President Obama's controversial executive actions, even after a federal judge blocked the move, the Justice Department says.

“The Government sincerely regrets these circumstances and is taking immediate steps to remedy these erroneous three-year terms,” the Department of Justice wrote in a court advisory filed late Thursday in the Southern District of Texas.

The advisory comes after District Court Judge Andrew Hanen halted the implementation of the executive actions, which defer deportations for immigrants living in the U.S. illegally and provide them with expanded access to work permits, until the courts could decide whether the policies are constitutional.
While the old policies authorize a two-year renewal of work permits under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the new program would allow for a three-year renewal.

The DOJ added in the advisory that the Department of Homeland Security is “converting” the three-year renewals into two-year terms and that DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson has asked the agency’s inspector general to investigate.

A group of states, led by Texas, has sued the administration, claiming that the executive actions are a constitutional overreach by the president.

This is not the first time the Justice Department issued a clarification to the court. In March, it admitted that the government granted 100,000 of these expanded work permit renewals to illegal immigrants under the president’s new program before the court decision.

Johnson announced the department’s intent to issue three-year expansions immediately in a November memo. But DOJ lawyers told the court the agency wouldn’t be processing any new applications until mid-February, which the government admitted could have led to “confusion.”

Hanen ruled against lifting his hold on the immigration actions in April, accusing the government of misleading the court by issuing those expanded work permits.

A federal appeals court heard oral arguments on whether to lift the hold in April. Both sides are currently awaiting a decision in that case.

The Hill.com Blog

If you have a 3 year permit issued to you after February 18th, it looks like they'll be taking it back and reissue you a 2 year permit

Task_1539 · 05-08-2015, 07:13 PM

At least the 2-year is still guaranteed without pulling some BS resend a new application and $$$

Pianoswithoutfaith · 05-08-2015, 08:21 PM

I love their use of admitted, as if they did something so bad

2MoreYears · 05-08-2015, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Malign0n

The Hill.com Blog

If you have a 3 year permit issued to you after February 18th, it looks like they'll be taking it back and reissue you a 2 year permit

Waste of resources.

@Malignon

was your prior avatar the stupid john kerry face?

Malign0n · 05-08-2015, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by 2MoreYears

Waste of resources.

@Malignon

was your prior avatar the stupid john kerry face?

It was the Mitt/Ann Romney Face swap. It does look like john kerry. lolol

Pianoswithoutfaith · 05-08-2015, 11:01 PM

wait after February 18? Mine was issues February 7... interesting

dreamact9090 · 05-09-2015, 08:08 PM

why would they do that? what a waste of money...

2MoreYears · 11:59 PM

A total of 108K dreamers received 3 year permits, 2k after injunction. Hanenn will keep battling that another 5 years, blah.

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HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. government says it "erroneously" awarded three-year work permits to 2,000 people under President Barack Obama's executive immigration action after a judge had put the plan on hold.

The revelation is the second time the federal government has had to clarify whether part of the immigration plan had been implemented after a court order that put it on hold.

In a court document filed Thursday, the Justice Department said that U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services discovered that about 2,000 individuals had been mistakenly sent three-year work authorizations after U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville, Texas, issued a preliminary injunction on Feb. 16 that temporarily blocked the immigration action.

Hanen issued the injunction at the request of a coalition of 26 states, led by Texas, which have filed a lawsuit to stop Obama's action. A decision from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is pending on whether to lift the injunction.

"The government sincerely regrets these circumstances and is taking prompt corrective steps, while gathering additional information about these issues, including how these errors occurred," the Justice Department wrote in its three-page advisory to Hanen.

The department said the 2,000 individuals had been eligible to receive two-year work permits under a 2012 program and that the three-year work permits were being converted into ones for two years.

The department did not immediately respond to a phone call or email seeking comment late Friday.

In a statement, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said the actions by Justice Department lawyers "show a blatant disregard for the rule of law."

"After months of obfuscation and stall tactics by the Obama Administration, the president's lawyers have been forced to admit that they acted outside the law by implementing the president's executive amnesty — even after a federal judge had ordered them to stop," Abbott said.

In his April ruling, Hanen called the federal government "misleading" after it revealed that more than 108,000 people had already received three-year reprieves from deportation as well as work permits when the judge had believed that no action would be taken on Obama's immigration plan before he issued a ruling on the injunction.

Justice Department attorneys have apologized for any confusion regarding the 108,000 reprieves and while insisting they were granted under a 2012 program that wasn't affected by the injunction.

Obama announced the executive action in November, saying lack of action by Congress forced him to make sweeping changes to immigration rules on his own. Republicans said Obama overstepped his authority.

Obama's proposed action includes expansion of a program that protects young immigrants from deportation if they were brought to the U.S. illegally as children and another that extends deportation protections to parents of U.S. citizens and permanent residents who have been in the country for some years.

Along with Texas, the states seeking to block Obama's action are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

http://news.yahoo.com/us-permits-iss...224817505.html

IamAman · 05-10-2015, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by dreamact9090

why would they do that? what a waste of money...

Do you even have to ask? That judge in Brownsville is going to run with this and all the other conservatives will use it to hurt us - and that's if they change them back from 3 to 2 years. If they don't do it then the world is going to come to an end.

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2K 3yr Permits issued after Injunction