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Wed Feb 7, 2024, 11:22 AM Feb 7

What has Mayorkas supposedly done/not done? Good long article refuting GOP nonsense

Legal experts counter GOP claims that Mayorkas broke the law

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4449623-legal-experts-counter-gop-claims-that-mayorkas-broke-the-law/

Immigration law experts say Mayorkas is being targeted for using immigration statutes in ways that differ little from his predecessors.

“This really is about policy differences and politics. These arguments that he’s violated the law and violated court orders are a smokescreen,” said Doris Meissner, a former commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, a precursor to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Republicans taking the word “shall” as “an absolute command from which the secretary of Homeland Security cannot deviate is a radical departure from the way that every presidential administration, including Republican presidential administrations, have interpreted that exact language,” César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, a law professor at Ohio State University, told The Hill.

“Parole is a law that was enacted by Congress, and it’s flexible. That’s the way Congress wanted it,” he said.


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