Judicial Watch Blog
Obama Spares Arrested Illegal Immigrant Protesters
In the Obama Administration’s latest move to protect
illegal immigrants while an amnesty plan gets worked out,
Homeland Security officials said they won’t take action
against a group of outlaws arrested in Georgia last week.
The illegal immigrants participated in a disruptive Atlanta
demonstration to protest a state measure that bans
undocumented students from attending some public colleges.
The seven self-described activists, who proudly boasted
about their illegal status, were arrested by local police for
blocking traffic in bustling downtown Atlanta for about an hour.
Local media followed up this week by inquiring about the
arrested demonstrators and the Homeland Security agency
responsible for removing illegal aliens,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),
confirmed that it was not taking any
“enforcement actions against the student demonstrators.”
One ICE official pointed to Homeland Security Secretary
Janet Napolitano’s well-documented stance on not deporting
illegal immigrant students.
Last summer the Obama Administration ordered authorities
to stop removing illegal immigrants who are students while
lawmakers craft legislation to officially shield them from expulsion.
The move, which has spared an estimated 700,000 illegal aliens,
came in response to nationwide rallies by defiant illegal immigrants
protesting their eminent removal or that of their undocumented parents.
The directive is part of Obama’s secret backdoor amnesty plan
in case Congress doesn’t pass legislation to legalize the nation’s
12 million illegal immigrants. Devised by political appointees at
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the plan aims
to enact “meaningful immigration reform absent legislative action.”
This includes “deferred action” delaying deportation indefinitely,
granting green cards, allowing illegal immigrants to remain in the
U.S. indefinitely while they seek legal status (known as “parole in place”)
and expanding the definition of “extreme hardships” so any illegal
alien could meet the criteria and remain in the country.
Judicial Watch has sued the Department of Homeland Security to
obtain records detailing the stealth amnesty plan because the agency
has ignored a federal public records request that dates back to July 2010.
