“Dreamers” line up – Judicial Watch sues Obama

Editor’s Note - As the progressive groups that support the Dream Act failed in Congress, Obama has decided he will enact it anyway. Now, people are being bused in and are standing in line to get “kinda sorta legal”, so enter Judicial Watch, who is now suing for the documents on how this will all play out and work. Meanwhile, the lines are very long across the country, where “dreamers” are signing up. SUA believes the number will far exceed the Obama Administration estimates of 800,000.

In Chicago, several thousand people lined up at Navy Pier to get information about the deferred action program for young illegal immigrants.

Judicial Watch sues Obama Administration for Amnesty Documents

by TONY LEE - Breitbart

Judicial Watch today sued the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security for documents related to President Barack Obama’s “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” executive order that allows young illegal immigrants who meet certain qualifications to get a two-year work permit and temporary amnesty.

Judicial Watch says it is seeking the following records in its June 22, 2012, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request:

All records concerning…the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to exercise prosecutorial discretion with respect to individuals who came to the United States as children…Such records include, but are not limited to, opinions, memoranda, or legal advice rendered by the Office of Legal Counsel.

The Department of Justice had until July 24, 2012 to comply with the FOIA request, but has failed to do so to date. On June 22, 2012, Judicial Watch submitted a similar FOIA request to the Department of Homeland Security. DHS was required to by law to respond to Judicial Watch by August 10, 2010. DHS, to date, has not responded.

“This new Obama amnesty program is an attack on the constitutional role of Congress and runs rough shod over existing immigration law. It is no surprise that the Obama administration doesn’t want to share the legal basis for this unilateral executive action and is violating Freedom of Information Act law to keep the American people in the dark,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in a statement. “President Obama and his political appointees are abusing their offices with this new amnesty program. If the administration were confident about the legality of its actions, it wouldn’t be keeping secret the legal basis for President Obama’s extraordinary decision to unilaterally change the law.”

And, since what Obama is doing on the ‘backdoor’ Dream Act, it is not law, it is a mandate, therefore Jan Brewer has taken matters into her own hands and will not stand by and watch her country or state go to hell.

Jan Brewer denies deferred action recipients drivers’ licenses; will other governors follow suit?

By Liz Goodwin - Yahoo News

A group of young illegal immigrants in Phoenix was preparing for a rally on Wednesday evening to celebrate the first day they were allowed to apply for relief from deportation and a two-year work permit under President Barack Obama’s deferred action plan. But a half-hour before the 5 p.m. rally was to begin, a young member of the Arizona Dream Act Coalition started crying. “Guys, we have really bad news,” she said, according to another activist, Erika Andiola, who was there.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer had released a strongly worded executive order preventing deferred action recipients from obtaining driver’s licenses or any other unspecified “public benefits” in her state, renewing her public spat with the White House over illegal immigration.

Jan Brewer strikes back - again. Executive Orders at the state level work too Mr. Obama

The celebration stopped. Instead, Andiola and 100 other people turned their rally into a march to the Capitol to protest the move, and about 30 people stayed overnight.

Brewer writes in the order that as many as 80,000 young people in Arizona could benefit from the new status, which gives young illegal immigrants under age 31 who came to the country as children relief from deportation and a two-year work permit. Brewer notes that the deferred action status does not make its recipients legal immigrants per se; it’s more a limbo state where the immigrants are now not deportable and legally able to work but are not progressing toward a green card or other permanent legal status.

Even so, the federal government says immigrants in this category should be allowed to have a driver’s license under the REAL ID Act passed in 2005. But states can opt out of the REAL ID Act’s requirements for a variety of reasons, and more than a dozen have done so. On a conference call with reporters earlier this week, an Obama administration official said it is up to states’ leadership whether to allow deferred action recipients to apply for driver’s licenses or for in-state tuition at public colleges. (A handful of states already grant in-state tuition to residents regardless of immigration status.) “DHS doesn’t comment on state specific matters,” agency spokesman Peter Boogaard said in a statement on Thursday.

Brewer has decided no to both, writing in the order that providing any benefits to the young people would have ”significant and lasting effects on the Arizona budget.”

But immigrant rights groups counter that it makes no sense to give young people the right to legally work but prevent them from legally driving to their jobs, and they are encouraging people to pressure states to allow them this privilege.

“We’re very concerned at what impact this could have across the country,” said Oklahoma City, Okla., immigration lawyer Doug Stump.

So far, it’s unclear how many states might follow Brewer’s lead, and no governor has yet announced that he or she will do so. Some states, including Alabama, already appear not to provide driver’s licenses to deferred action recipients, instead requiring a green card from immigrants who want to drive. But until Wednesday, Arizona accepted the work permits deferred action recipients will receive as documentation to apply for a license.

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