Judge Hearing Challenge To Obama’s Immigration Policy Has Already Given Us A Good Idea How He’ll Rule

BY IAN MILLHISER POSTED ON JANUARY 14, 2015 

On Thursday, Judge Andrew Hanen, a George W. Bush appointee to a federal trial court in Texas, will hear a challenge brought by officials in two dozen states that object to President Obama’s recently announced immigration policy. Last month, however, Hanen handed down a strongly worded order claiming that the federal government engaged in a “dangerous course of action” because it allowed an undocumented mother to be united with her child without having criminal charges brought against her. Though it is theoretically possible to draw a narrow legal distinction between the arguments Hanen raised in his December order and the arguments against President Obama’s broader policy, the order leaves little doubt about how Hanen will decide the case currently pending before his court. The Obama Administration might as well attempt to defend its policy before Judge Ted Cruz.

Hanen’s December order involved an undocumented mother, her 10 year-old daughter, and a woman named Mirtha Veronica Nava-Martinez that the judge describes as an “admitted human trafficker.” According to Hanen, the mother hired Nava-Martinez to help bring her daughter from El Salvador to the United States. Nava-Martinez was caught at a checkpoint, arrested, and she pled guilty to charges that she attempted to smuggle the daughter into the United States. The case was in Hanen’s courtroom to resolve this prosecution. Neither the mother nor the daughter were before Hanen or his court.

A 1997 settlement agreement requires the federal government to “release a minor to his or her parent, guardian, or relative, among others, in an order of preference established by the settlement documents,” though Hanen claims that the settlement agreement has expired. In apparent compliance with this settlement agreement, the government reunited the mother and daughter. The terms of that settlement agreement, which arose from an unrelated lawsuit filed in a federal court in California, also were not before Hanen or his court. Federal district judges in Texas rarely, if ever, have the power to alter the terms of a settlement agreement approved by one of their judicial colleagues from a completely different federal district in a completely different state.

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http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/01/14/3611263/lawsuit-challenging-obamas-immigration-policy-will-be-heard-by-worst-possible-judge-for-immigrants/

State officials and allied activists are cautiously optimistic that a Thursday hearing will help a Texas judge issue a decision that would block President Barack Obama’s unpopular amnesty.

Officials in 25 states have a solid legal claim that President Barack Obama’s actions are unconstitutional, said lawyers working for the coalition of plaintiffs.

They’re also optimistic because the appeals court isn’t stacked with progressive judges, and because the judge has previously criticized the White House’s rollback of border enforcement, the lawyers told The Daily Caller.

The plaintiffs’ coalition is also diverse, which allows them to make a variety of legal claims, including some that vote-seeking politicians wouldn’t want to make, said Michael Hethmon, senior counsel at the immigration Law Reform Institute.

The stakes are high, partly because Obama’s Nov. 20 amnesty announcement is the only surviving portion of his two-year, top-priority second-term push to expand immigration.

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http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/14/obamas-amnesty-faces-skeptical-judge-in-texas/

Congress has also hit Obama by defunding Obama’s Amnesty: http://voxxi.com/2015/01/house-votes-executive-actions-end-daca/

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Obama will meet his destiny in the Brownsville, Cameron County Courthouse, Texas on this Thursday January 15, 2015. Karma.

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