An immigration reduction advocacy organization is underwriting a lawsuit filed by ten Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and agents against the Department of Homeland Security. Meanwhile California is considering giving driver's licenses to thousands of young illegal immigrants.
The lawsuit is specifically directed at Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and ICE Director John Morton. It challenges the Obama administration's deferred action Directive and associated Prosecutorial Discretion Memorandum that prevents ICE officers, employees, and agents from fulfilling their sworn oath to enforce immigration laws.
The directive pertains to Obama's decision to sidestep congressional approval and grant certain illegal aliens -- those brought to the U.S. by their parents -- a special amnesty. It is an extension of the DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors), which was rejected by Congress.
Roy Beck is founder and president of Numbers USA, an organization for lower immigration levels. He tells why his group is underwriting this lawsuit.
"This is a law and order issue, but it's much larger than that," he asserts. "That's one of the things that we at Numbers USA want to emphasize -- that we regard these courageous ICE agents who have stepped forward on this suit as being part of a major effort in this time of high unemployment and stagnant wages to protect the America workers. And Numbers USA has fought this DREAM Act amnesty for over ten years. This is a natural place for us to step in and help."
The DHS directive literally orders ICE agents to break the law by not going forward with deportation proceedings against certain illegal aliens.
California helping illegals 'continue their life of crime'
Becky Yeh -- OneNewsNow California correspondent
A political activist says it is absurd that California is considering giving driver's licenses to thousands of young illegal immigrants. (Listen to audio report)
The Golden State is close to handing driver's licenses to roughly 400,000 illegal immigrants who receive federal deferrals. In fact, Lawrence Hebron of the Alliance of Christian Patriots reports that unless Gov. Jerry Brown (D) objects, such legislation appears ready to pass.
"It seems to me that the key word of the expression 'illegal immigrant' is 'illegal,'" Hebron notes. "Now, maybe I'm nuts, but it seems to me that you don't give home invaders the key to your front door; you don't elect a pedophile to be president of the PTA; you don't give a serial rapist the membership to Match.com, and you don't give people who are here illegally a driver's license or some other form of official identification to make it easier for them to continue in their life of crime."
The conflict, according to The Sacramento Bee, is that state laws only accept some types of immigration documents to allow for the issuance of a driver's license.
This legislation would extend President Barack Obama's "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals" program to include driver's licenses for young illegal immigrants.