Romney adviser leading immigration lawsuit
Source: Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — An informal adviser to Republican Mitt Romney is representing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees suing the Obama administration over its plan to stop deporting many young illegal immigrants and grant them work permits.
Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state, filed the lawsuit on behalf of 10 ICE employees Thursday in federal court in Dallas. The 22-page filing contends that the Obama administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals plan violates federal law and forces ICE employees to break the law by not arresting certain illegal immigrants. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and ICE Director John Morton are named as defendants.
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Kobach, who also advised Arizona lawmakers on the state's controversial immigration bill, said he is representing the employees as a private lawyer and not in his capacity as a Kansas state official. He wrote in the lawsuit that ICE agents have been ordered not to arrest illegal immigrants who claim to be eligible for the administration's new deportation policy.
Kobach also was a delegate to the platform committee for next week's Republican National Convention.
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/romney-adviser-leading-immigration-lawsuit-172511291.html
The gist of the lawsuit is that Obama can't use its prosecutorial discretion to achieve the aims of the DREAM Act, which Republicans are blocking in Congress. Yet, Romney-Ryam is also trying to muddy the water regardng Romney's positons on immigration in an effort to reach out to Hispanic voters. Indeed, not that the GOP primaries are over, watch Romney back away from prior comments that the Arizona immigration law is a “model” for the nation even as his advisor sues to compel the Obama administration to deport more immigrants.
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country was built on the very same thing?"
Each generation (at least those among it who fear "of anyone from the 'outside'"
fears their immigrants as a threat, while lauding previous' generations' immigrants as part of our multicultural history. Those who fear "anyone from the outside" are found largely on the right as they always have been. (Our strictest immigration laws were passed in 1921 and 1924 when republicans controlled the presidency and congress, while the liberalization of immigration occurred in 1965 during Democratic control.)
Fear of 'outsiders' has been a staple of American politics for a long time. 
NOT!!!!
Where in US jurisprudence is the theory that the parent's crime of crossing the border be transferred to the child anyway? Minors cannot be charged for crossing the border under their family's move. If the freaking Congress won't take action, Obama is being forced to use his regulatory powers. I'd like to take it one step further. In order to qualify, the person in question has to have a GED/HS Diploma/or served in the military AND have a clean record. Let's deport everybody who doesn't qualify under those rules under 30. No matter where they were born.
