On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it will not accept new applications for President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty until the lawsuit against it is resolved.
The day after a federal judge issued an injunction against Obama’s executive amnesty, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said though he “strongly” disagreed with the ruling, the Obama administration will comply with it.
Illegal immigrants would have been eligible to apply for the expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on Wednesday while Obama’s temporary amnesty program for the parents of U.S. citizens was set to go into effect later in the year.
“The Department of Justice will appeal that temporary injunction; in the meantime, we recognize we must comply with it,” Johnson said in a statement. “Accordingly, the Department of Homeland Security will not begin accepting requests for the expansion of DACA tomorrow, February 18, as originally planned. Until further notice, we will also suspend the plan to accept requests for DAPA.”
Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) says that Congress can “never acquiesce” to providing any taxpayer dollars to President Obama’s executive amnesty, especially in the wake of the federal court ruling that it is illegal and unconstitutional.
“The Court’s ruling is yet further affirmation that the President’s action – as the President himself admitted many times – is illegal,” Sessions said in a statement Tuesday. “President Obama has suspended some 500 pages of existing immigration law passed by the representatives of the American people, and replaced it with the very measures those representatives have repeatedly rejected. The President’s action violates our laws, our Constitution, and the centuries of legal heritage that yielded our Republic.”
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The day after a federal judge issued an injunction against Obama’s executive amnesty, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said though he “strongly” disagreed with the ruling, the Obama administration will comply with it.
Illegal immigrants would have been eligible to apply for the expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on Wednesday while Obama’s temporary amnesty program for the parents of U.S. citizens was set to go into effect later in the year.
“The Department of Justice will appeal that temporary injunction; in the meantime, we recognize we must comply with it,” Johnson said in a statement. “Accordingly, the Department of Homeland Security will not begin accepting requests for the expansion of DACA tomorrow, February 18, as originally planned. Until further notice, we will also suspend the plan to accept requests for DAPA.”
Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) says that Congress can “never acquiesce” to providing any taxpayer dollars to President Obama’s executive amnesty, especially in the wake of the federal court ruling that it is illegal and unconstitutional.
“The Court’s ruling is yet further affirmation that the President’s action – as the President himself admitted many times – is illegal,” Sessions said in a statement Tuesday. “President Obama has suspended some 500 pages of existing immigration law passed by the representatives of the American people, and replaced it with the very measures those representatives have repeatedly rejected. The President’s action violates our laws, our Constitution, and the centuries of legal heritage that yielded our Republic.”
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