Chairmen Smith and Aderholt Write Secretary Napolitano Warning

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!!

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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."

LMAOOOOO

these people are insane, are they also expecting Obama to sign this bill?

The bill will not pass. Obama will literally go poopy on the bill and send it back to Smith, so this xenophobic son of a gun can smell it.

in part this is good, we all know this bill is going NO WHERE but at the same time it helps wake Obama to get serious about immigration because the GOP dont take him serious by offering these bullshit bills

But this also raises one question...How is Obama get a bill through the House with this type of ruthless opposition?

Our best chance is for any bill to get through the senate first, and hopeful thinking would be that if its importaint enough for senate GOP members to allow passage in the senate then maybe they'll convince house GOP memebers to pass it in the house. But I feel if any bill has a chance to pass the senate it has to be heavy with border enforcement and possibly a E verify clause and we still have to get pass that " moral" issue that the GOP has against any earn pathway to citizenship, they call it amnesty changing their mind on that mindset is like pushing an elephant through a door way, HARD AS FUCK ! lol

now days it is always about the next election, so forget about the dream act/cir.
even republican knows that dream act is justice. but both party are too divided.
we need a modrate republican president to solve this immigration mess.

This guy really has mental isuues. It would be nice to see his face if CIR or DA passes and Obama signs it.

Agree with you, I think we need another Bush to get CIR/DA passed. Obama has ability to pass CIR/DA but only if he really want it to.

lol we all just have to try to live the best we can untill 2013 try to have fun any way you can get it , dont stress on these congress people, they are old not us, be young have fun enjoy life in 2013 we will see whos serious but until then do what you can with what you can