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Daily
Caller…
ICE
agents sue
Napolitano, Morton over immigration policies
By
Caroline
May
08/23/2012
Ten
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
agents filed a lawsuit against Secretary of Homeland Security Janet
Napolitano
and ICE Director John Morton Thursday, taking on recent Obama
administration
directives which they say prevent them from upholding the law.
The
suit, filed in federal court in Dallas,
Texas, challenges the administration’s June 15th deferred action
directive
which instructed ICE agents not to arrest certain illegal immigrants
for
deportation and facilitate the granting of work permits for some
directive
beneficiaries.
“We
are federal law enforcement officers who
are being ordered to break the law. This directive puts ICE agents and
officers
in a horrible position,” President of the National Immigration and
Customs
Enforcement Council and former ICE agent Chris Crane said in a
statement.
Kansas
Secretary of State Kris Kobach, an
adviser Republican presidential candidate Mitt
Romney,
is the
lead attorney on the case.
“The
Directive is an extension of the DREAM
Act, which was rejected by Congress, and aims to grant an amnesty to
1.7
million illegal aliens,” Kobach said. “It violates federal immigration
laws
that require certain aliens to be placed in removal proceedings, it
violates
the Administrative Procedure Act, and it encroaches upon the
legislative powers
of Congress as defined in Article I of the United States Constitution.”
“The
lawsuit notes the position that these ICE
agents are being put in, they are being ordered by their political
appointee
superiors to break federal law, or if they don’t break federal law,
according
to their orders, they will be disciplined. This is an absolutely breath
taking
assertion of authority and an abuse of authority,” he added in a
conference
call with reporters, comparing the situation to Fast and Furious.
Republican
lawmakers came out in support of the
lawsuit Thursday, including Texas Reps. Louie Gohmert, John Carter and
House
Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith…
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