It seemed like she tested the winds and dragged her feet, but on Thursday, Governor Jan Brewer authorized the state of Arizona to sign onto a multistate lawsuit seeking to overturn President Obama’s recent immigration executive action – a unilateral decision by the President to ignore existing federal immigration law and effectively grant amnesty to illegal aliens.
“Arizona is proud to join a coalition of states fighting to overturn President Obama’s illegal and unconstitutional executive action,” said Governor Brewer. “As a border state bearing the brunt of our nation’s broken immigration system – a crisis exacerbated by the President’s reckless immigration policies and refusal to enforce the law – our state and our citizens have had enough.”
“President Obama has exceeded his power as clearly defined in the United States Constitution and federal law and deliberately ignored the will of the American people. Such federal overreach cannot stand. I believe that the courts should strike down this presidential fiat and uphold the fundamental principles upon which this country was built,” concluded Brewer.
The lawsuit was filed by the State of Texas and addresses states’ concerns regarding President Obama’s recent executive memo, as well as the consequences and costs of policies enacted by his administration in regards to immigration, according to Walker, according to the Wisconsin Daily Independent. The lawsuit contends the President’s recent executive action violates the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Code governing administrative actions.
Last month, the Arizona Daily Independent reported on an Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu, who exposed the fact a DHS memorandum dated November 20, 2014, provides directives to all federal enforcement in Customs and Border Patrol to use prioritization and prosecutorial discretion for all of the estimated 11-20 million illegals; not just the five million President Obama stated.
Sheriff Babeu released DHS’s newest internal memorandum written by Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, which contains directives on apprehending, detaining and removing illegal aliens.
In a statement released with the memo, Babeu said that after blaming a lack of resources and admitting the federal government’s failure to handle this country’s immigration issues, the directive encourages prioritization of enforcement for only the most violent criminal offenders, who are illegally living within the United States.
The directive also promotes prosecutorial discretion, according to Babeu, a law enforcement agency’s ability to choose to enforce a law or not – for officials when deciding whether to “issue, serve, file, or cancel a Notice to Appear” in immigration cases, but also when determining “whom to stop, question, and arrest; whom to detain or release; whether to settle, dismiss, appeal, or join in a motion on a case; and whether to grant deferred action, parole, or a stay of removal instead of pursuing removal in a case.”
Through this prioritizing and prosecutorial discretion, these directives provide for amnesty for all illegal aliens by removing every expectation for federal officials to enforce the immigration laws of United States, claimed Babeu.
Babeu reported that while the directive is not effective until Jan. 5, 2015, yet ICE has already started releasing hundreds of illegals across the nation this past weekend who are currently incarcerated and on their way to deportation. ICE is concealing this information and will likely defend their action by saying these criminal illegals are non-violent, non-felons and do not pose a threat to the community. This action is on the heels of a mass Obama directed prison break of thousands of convicted criminals, many with serious felonies.