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Amnesty Judge Gets Tough with Defiant BO -Admonishes Feds to Explain Deportation Reprieves
U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen
Bob Unruh / WND
The federal judge who ordered a halt to President Obama’s amnesty-for-millions plan now is telling federal attorneys to come to his courtroom in Brownsville, Texas, and explain why someone issued three-year deportation exemptions and work authorizations to 100,000 people before the program was scheduled to begin.
U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen issued an order Monday for the lawyers to be at a hearing in his courtroom March 19, the Herald newspaper in Brownsville reported.
Hanen’s preliminary injunction stopped Obama’s executive actions on amnesty before the government was to begin accepting applications from qualified illegal aliens Feb. 18.
However, the paper said there were extended stays and work authorizations issued to 100,000 illegal aliens prior to the scheduled start date.
Hanen’s ordered the government to “explain” the details of a brief from government attorney Kyle Freeny that disclosed the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services had approved tens of thousands of three-year exemptions between Nov. 24, 2014, and Hanen’s injunction.
Hanen’s order, Feb. 16, did not block a 2012 plan that offers amnesty to those who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
But that program doesn’t provide for three-year exemptions. The exemptions are part of the administration’s November order.
The case was brought by Texas and 25 other states, and joined by Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has a similar case pending before a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C..
Upon discovering the ongoing grants of amnesty, the states filed a motion demanding to know who was providing the benefits.
WND reported Arpaio also asked for a hearing for the government to explain why it apparently is refusing to abide by Hanen’s order.
Read more at WND:
http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/amnesty-judge-gets-tough-with-defiant-obama/
