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DHS to be granted total dictatorial power in immigration bill, all laws nullified, voters silenced


Wednesday, May 22, 2013 by: J. D. Heyes


(NaturalNews) There has been a lot of rhetoric on both sides of the issue regarding the current "immigration reform bill" that the Senate has taken up, but one thing you likely haven't heard about at all is the scope and breadth of power the massive 850-page-plus measure contains. Simply put, if it becomes law, it will give the Department of Homeland Security near-dictatorial powers.

Sen. Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican, has entered a letter into the congressional record from law enforcement personnel around the country who are warning S.744, officially titled the "Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act," would grant sweeping, discretionary powers to "political appointees" - bureaucrats - while stripping law enforcement of authority.

'Virtually unlimited discretion'

The letter, from the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Council of the American Federal of Government Employees Affiliated with AFL-CIO, states:

Congress can and must take decisive steps to limit the discretion of political appointees and empower ICE and CBP to perform their respective missions and enforce the laws enacted by Congress. Rather than limiting the power of those political appointees within DHS, S. 744 provides them with nearly unlimited discretion, which will serve only to further cripple the law enforcement missions of these agencies.

The members warn that the bill conveys to DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano "virtually unlimited discretion to waiver" prohibitions on getting legal status, such as previous deportations or criminal activity:

This same section (Section 2101 of S. 744) gives the Secretary of Homeland Security virtually unlimited discretion to waive any manner of crimes that would otherwise make an individual ineligible for legal status - for such expansive reasons as family unity, humanitarian purposes, or what the Secretary believes is in the public interest.

ICE agents would become 'powerless'

The letter continues:

At least two of these standards appear undefined by S. 744 or current law, providing political appointees with broad authority to establish their own definitions of these terms and pardon criminal acts under almost any circumstance.

The bill states that individuals who have previously been deported or otherwise removed from the country are ineligible to apply for legal status. However, the Secretary is given the 'sole and unreviewable discretion' to waive that ineligibility for large classes of qualifying aliens.

CNSNews.com noted that in seven instances, the measure grants "unreviewable" powers (see them here).

"Congress can and must take decisive steps to limit the discretion of political appointees and empower ICE and CBP to perform their respective missions and enforce the laws enacted by Congress. Rather than limiting the power of those political appointees within DHS, S. 744 provides them with nearly unlimited discretion, which will serve only to further cripple the law enforcement missions of these agencies," the letter continues.

Crafters of the letter went on to conclude that ICE agents would essentially become "powerless" to protect the general public, or be able to perform their duties as required, if the bill passes the House.

"If this legislation were enacted tomorrow, ICE officers would continue to be powerless to effectively enforce our nation's laws and provide for public safety as S. 744 does nothing to end these dangerous agency- and department-level directives," the letter said.

Oh, and there's a privacy concern as well

UPDATE: Here's another reason to oppose the measure, according to Wired:

The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system.

As you probably guessed, this little Fourth Amendment violation is buried in the hundreds of pages of text and innocuously named (in this instance, the requirement is called a "phone tool").

The provision called for "a massive federal database administered by the Department of Homeland Security and containing names, ages, Social Security numbers and photographs of everyone in the country with a driver's license or other state-issued photo ID," Wired reported.

No agency of the U.S. government deserves or should have this kind of unchecked power. And along that line, our laws should not be several hundred pages long. The founders believed laws should be simple and straightforward, not so complex they couldn't be read and understood by regular citizens who then have to live under them.

 

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Immigration reform bill is a joke. I know I may piss off alot of Republicians by saying thie but: What the heck.

 

Business does not want immigration reform to pass, or amnesty for those already in country.

Business employs hundreds of thousand of illegal immigrants via small contract companies. They do this illegal practice in order to avoid paying higher wages and benefits to legal workers. It is basicly slave labor without the whips. These illegal workers are employed by small companies to work for big corporations in hotels, laundry, construction and manufacture, etc, etc. They are also employed as housekeepers, gardners, child care providers, cooks for the rich.

American (legal) workers require at least minimum wage, decent working conditions, overtime, and benefits (according to Obamacare).

As usual business has invented a way around immigration laws, and in many cases, around the immigration officers to employ the illegal workers. At any given time, immigration can come to a major construction site, or hotel at cleaning time and load buses full of illegal workers but these workers are employed by a contracted company so the major the business is untouchable, and stain free from the courts, and law enforcement.

BUT

If immigrantion did this it would also shut the business down. Not the best solution to the bigger picture right?

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This is not good, this is dangerous.  I'm sure there is more to come. We can't be silence anymore. 

Well Pattyangel I don't know about can't be silenced.

But I do know that we must not be silent any longer.

 

Immigration reform bill is a joke. I know I may piss off alot of Republicians by saying thie but: What the heck.

 

Business does not want immigration reform to pass, or amnesty for those already in country.

Business employs hundreds of thousand of illegal immigrants via small contract companies. They do this illegal practice in order to avoid paying higher wages and benefits to legal workers. It is basicly slave labor without the whips. These illegal workers are employed by small companies to work for big corporations in hotels, laundry, construction and manufacture, etc, etc. They are also employed as housekeepers, gardners, child care providers, cooks for the rich.

American (legal) workers require at least minimum wage, decent working conditions, overtime, and benefits (according to Obamacare).

As usual business has invented a way around immigration laws, and in many cases, around the immigration officers to employ the illegal workers. At any given time, immigration can come to a major construction site, or hotel at cleaning time and load buses full of illegal workers but these workers are employed by a contracted company so the major the business is untouchable, and stain free from the courts, and law enforcement.

BUT

If immigrantion did this it would also shut the business down. Not the best solution to the bigger picture right?

Gymrat

you are correct our current setup of Government and busness do not want immigration reform.

But this situation is not hopeless We the people are the key

Do not hire them or companys who employ them

Do not visit their illegal car washes or taco stands

Do not rent to illegals without proof of papers

Demand your Representatives to stop allowing Americans tax dollars to go to support and advertise for illegals to come here.

It is up to We The People to demand and require No Compromise Secure our borders and no Amnesty.

As far as the big picture goes stop paying the American people to stay home and not work

Welfare is for those that cannot work not for those that are too sorry to work.

If We The People require this from our Government then it would fix the situation

But it would require that We the People get involved and make demands of our Government and follow through to make sure that

they are carried out.

 

Unfortunately the entire last sentance says it is hopeless

 

 

No Surrender No Retreat and No Compromise

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Gymrat

you are correct our current setup of Government and busness do not want immigration reform.

But this situation is not hopeless We the people are the key

Do not hire them or companys who employ them

Do not visit their illegal car washes or taco stands

Do not rent to illegals without proof of papers

Demand your Representatives to stop allowing Americans tax dollars to go to support and advertise for illegals to come here.

It is up to We The People to demand and require No Compromise Secure our borders and no Amnesty.

As far as the big picture goes stop paying the American people to stay home and not work

Welfare is for those that cannot work not for those that are too sorry to work.

If We The People require this from our Government then it would fix the situation

But it would require that We the People get involved and make demands of our Government and follow through to make sure that

they are carried out.

 

Unfortunately the entire last sentance says it is hopeless

 

 

 

 

Every private business owner I have ever worked for, even all the way back to delivering papers as a 7 year old, has been crooked in one way or another.  The smart ones were always finding new and unique ways to skirt rules and regulations........the dumb ones used the same old tactics and rolled the dice.  Sorry to say, but the American small business owner must do what needs to be done to stay afloat.......it has been this way my whole life.  Keep the overhead in check and slowly screw your patrons.  It's the small business beast for many......not to say there aren't business owners on the up and up.....I'm sure there are many.  I have a fear though that the majority will do what they need to do illegal or otherwise, to keep their shutter open.  No way will they all come together in a "We The People" way to do the right thing.  As always, just my opinion.  

 

GO RV, then BV

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