OBAMAgration: Homeland Security Finally Moves to Comply with Judge Hanen's Immigration Injunction

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.

One of My Heroes: Judge Andrew Hanen

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.

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