by Arnold Ahlert
Hastening the "fundamental transformation" of our nation while there's still time.
A newly-leaked memo from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reveals the Obama administration is seeking to sidestep a
federal court injunction that suspended portions of the president’s
amnesty-based initiatives known as Deferred Action for Parents of
Americans (DAPA) and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). In
short, Obama is determined to impose his transformational agenda on the
nation by any means necessary.
According to the Hill, the document outlining
the administration’s attempt to thumb its nose at the rule of law was
prepared at a DHS “Regulations Retreat” last June, four months after a
preliminary injunction was initially imposed by Texas Judge Andrew Hanen
and subsequently left in place by
a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth
Circuit. The Fifth Circuit's final ruling on that injunction, either
confirming or reversing it, is expected to occur in a matter of days.
Apparently the Obama administration couldn’t care less. The retreat
was convened to discuss options regarding work permits for illegals,
statutorily known as Employment Authorization Documents (EADs). The memo
recording those discussions reveals the administration had no intention
of waiting while the court determined the constitutionality of Obama’s
effort to nullify immigration law. Rather, they have been preparing to
roll out one or more of four separate plans aimed at providing EADs to
millions of illegal aliens.
The memo
states that Option 1 would grants EADs to “all individuals living in the
United States,” a group that includes illegal aliens, visa-overstayers,
and H-1B guest-workers. Option 4 provides EADs to individuals on
certain unexpired non-immigrant visas, the Hill reports. Both options
directly violate the Immigration and Nationality Act that ostensibly protects American wages and job security from excessive immigration, and completely subverts the nation’s current visa system.
The number of individuals benefiting from these initiatives is
infuriating. Option 1 would “address the needs of some of the intended
deferred action population,” meaning anyone physically present in the
nation who has been prohibited from obtaining an EAD until now. That
definition applies to 4.3 million people covered by DAPA and the
Expanded DACA programs, despite the reality the benefits accruing from
those programs were supposed to have been stopped by the Hanen decision.
In addition, the DHS plan would provide EADs to individuals with
temporary non-immigrant visas, such as H-1B visas holders whose work
authorizations are tied to their employers—along with an additional 5-6
million illegal aliens yet to be included in any part of Obama's
deferred action amnesty agenda. The DHS is contending it can unilaterally separate
the work authorization requirements contained in the 1986 Immigration
Reform and Control Act from the rest of U.S. visa statutes. And while it
can’t ignore legal requirements with regard to issuing visas,
the Obama administration insists it has discretionary powers that should
shock any American who believes in the rule of law.
In short, Obama and his minions contend they have the power to grant
anyone currently residing in the United States, regardless of status, a
work permit.
Ironically, the authors of
the memo concede the beneficiaries of the Obama administration’s
offensive against the rule of law will still “face difficulties in
pursuing permanent residence due to ineligibility or being subject to
unlawful presence inadmissibility for which a waiver is required.” This
is a reference to the reality that an EAD is not the equivalent of a
green card, and an EAD holder will ultimately have to apply to “adjust
their status,” an undertaking that cannot be accomplished absent
evidence of lawful status to begin with.
Unsurprisingly, the memo’s authors envision a solution for that dilemma,
noting the DHS’s “macro-level policy goal” is aimed at helping illegals
remain in the United States “until they are ready and able to become
immigrants.” In other words, the DHS envisions itself abetting lawbreaking.
If these initiatives are successful, the impact on American workers would border on
catastrophic, especially for college graduates. American universities
churn out approximately 800,000 graduates per year with degrees in
medicine and business, as well as science, technology, engineering and
mathematics (STEM). These graduates are already having trouble finding
jobs in their respective fields, and Obama’s agenda would add the insult
to injury, forcing them to compete with foreign workers willing to
accept lower wages. A scathing column written
by a former Disney IT worker recounts the company’s despicable effort
in that regard. Disney forced their American workers to train their
foreign counterparts prior to being laid off as a condition for
receiving their severance pay. A number of other companies,
including Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Infosys, Tata Consultancy
Services, Intel and Qualcomm have all clamored for increased numbers of H-1B visas, even as many of them have laid off American workers.
Ian Smith, a lawyer with the Immigration Reform Law Institute, puts
the administration’s latest agenda in perspective. “The President’s
ruthless politicization of our immigration laws seems to be getting more
extreme as his final day in office nears,” said Smith. "Each of the
plans contemplated in this memo would be a complete subversion of our
visa system and is 100 percent illegal… [and] will be a direct slap in
the face of Congress.”
Not exactly.
Virtually every Democrat is behind the president’s plans, as are many
Chamber of Commerce-beholden Republicans who are on board with
increasing the number of H-1B visas. They include Sen. Orrin Hatch
(R-UT) who, along with co-sponsors Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Sen. Jeff
Flake (R-AZ), proposed a reincarnation of the 2013 “I-Squared” bill
called the “Immigration Innovation Act of 2015.”
The latest version would increase the number of H-1B visas from the
current level of 65,000 a year (plus 20,000 for holders of U.S. graduate
degrees), to 115,000, “with the possibility of the cap rising as high
as 195,000 depending on economic conditions,” Hatch stated last
April. This despite the reality that since 2000, the entire net gain in
the number of people holding a job went to immigrants, both legal and
illegal, according to a 2014 report by the Center for Immigration
Studies (CIS).
Furthermore, no one should expect any help from the GOP’s newly-elected House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI). Ryan has repeatedly aligned himself
with Obama and the pro-amnesty left, insisting in 2013 that any public
displeasure with “waves of immigration” arises from "some ignorance…some
resistance.”
In a searing column for
Roll Call, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) reveal
the utter fraud behind Ryan’s assertion, explaining the Census Bureau
"projects that the foreign-born share of the U.S. population will soon
eclipse the highest levels ever documented, and will continue surging to
new record highs each year to come.” They further note that "activists
and politicians who support unprecedented levels of immigration are
never asked to explain how they believe such a policy will affect social
stability, community cohesion or political assimilation.”
Both men mince no words with regard to the real agenda in play here.
"This is not immigration reform,” they state. "This is the dissolution
of the nation state, of the principle that a government exists to serve
its own people.”
And make no mistake: the
Obama administration is leading the charge, along with the entire
Democrat Party and a number of Republicans, whose contempt for national
sovereignty is only surpassed by their efforts to label those who resist
the fundamental transformation of America as bigoted, nativist and/or
xenophobic. It behooves the 26 plaintiff states that have challenged
Obama’s agenda to make sure the Fifth Circuit court of Appeals is fully
informed with regard to the DHS memo and the administration’s attempt to
subvert the law. Sad to say, either they, or ultimately the Supreme
Court, may be the last line of defense against a cabal of politicians
and well-connected corporate oligarchs, and their supra-nationalist
ambitions. It is not just America, but the concept of the nation-state
itself, that hangs in the balance.
Arnold Ahlert is a former NY Post op-ed columnist currently contributing to JewishWorldReview.com, HumanEvents.com and CanadaFreePress.com. He may be reached at atahlert@comcast.net.
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