Judge To Homeland Sec: "Show Up or Be In Contempt"

[Kathianne]

Remember the judge who put an injunction on Obama's executive order for amnesty? Then government says, "Whoops, our mistake, over 2,000 already approved. We'll fix." They didn't, judge not happy:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/judge-orders-homeland-security-chief-others-to-court/2015/07/08/478ab280-258a-11e5-b621-b55e495e9b78_story.html


Judge orders Homeland Security chief, others to courtBy Juan A. Lozano | APJuly 8 at 1:36 PM


HOUSTON — A federal judge in Texas has threatened to hold Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and other top immigration enforcement officials in contempt of court for not fixing problems that led to work permits being mistakenly awarded under President Barack Obama’s executive immigration action after the judge had put the plan on hold.

The Justice Department had said about 2,000 individuals had been sent three-year work authorizations after U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville, Texas, temporarily blocked the immigration action on Feb. 16.

In a court order Tuesday, Hanen said government officials have yet to fix the problem. The judge also requested Johnson and four other officials attend an Aug. 19 hearing to explain why the issue hasn’t been fixed and to “be prepared to show why he or she should not be held in contempt of court.”

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[Kathianne]

guess they are moving now:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/421291/homeland-security-complies-immigration-injunction-andrew-hanen


Homeland Security Finally Moves to Comply with Immigration Injunction by HANS A. VON SPAKOVSKY July 16, 2015 4:41 PM

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/421291/homeland-security-complies-immigration-injunction-andrew-hanen


It seems that Jeh Johnson doesn’t relish the prospect of having to explain himself in court. The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security has finally taken action to reverse the three-year work authorizations his department issued unlawfully to 2,500 illegal aliens.

DHS had issued the authorizations in furtherance of President Obama’s immigration amnesty plan. Unfortunately for Johnson, that action flouted federal-district-court-judge Andrew Hanen’s preliminary injunction against the plan. Hanen was not amused.

As I explained last week, Hanen issued an order on July 7 compelling Johnson and four other top DHS officials to appear before him in his Brownsville, Texas, courtroom on August 19 if they had not rectified this problem by July 31. On July 9, the Justice Department informed Hanen that the problem was even bigger. In addition to the 2,000 aliens DOJ had told Hanen about back in May, another 500 had received work permits after the injunction was issued.

Yesterday, the Justice Department submitted to the court copies of two new “directives” from Johnson to Leon Rodriguez, the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. (Rodriguez is one of the officials named in Hanen’s July 7 order.) The first directive, dated July 10, three days after Hanen’s appearance order, directs Rodriguez to mail a “Notice of Intent to Terminate” to the original 2,000 recipients of these unlawful work permits. The notice would inform the aliens that, if they don’t return their permits by July 30, DHS will terminate their “deferred action status and associated employment authorization” as of July 31 — the day DHS is required to give Hanen a status report on what they’ve done to fix the problem.

Johnson’s directive further instructs Rodriguez’s office to “dispatch its personnel to visit the homes” of those illegal aliens “who have not yet returned their three-year [Employment Authorization Documents (EAD)], for the purpose of retrieving the three-year EADs.”

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It is clear that Johnson does not want to go to Brownsville. After doing almost nothing about this problem since early May, Johnson tells Rodriguez that he wants to be advised “on July 13, July 17, July 20, July 24 and July 27 on the status of its compliance with this directive.” For those who want the Obama administration to actually comply with the law, Judge Andrew Hanen appears to have found a way to do it.