Feds take steps to comply with immigrant work-permit court order
Source: Politico
Federal immigration officials are taking dramatic steps to comply with a court order involving President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration, including knocking on doors of immigrants and warning that their protection from deportation will be cut off by month’s end.
The problem for the Obama administration escalated earlier this month, when U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen demanded that Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and other top immigration officials appear in his Brownsville, Texas, courtroom to explain why they shouldn’t be held in contempt of court.
The Department of Homeland Security, which is overseeing implementation of Obama’s immigration actions, had mistakenly issued three-year work permits to immigrants protected from deportation – even after the February injunction from Hanen that blocked such documents.
About 2,500 such work permits have been issued, and Christopher Bentley, a spokesman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services – an agency under DHS – said officials have retrieved roughly 900 of the documents.
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