Justice Department & Immigration, back again

Guess some topics just never go away.  The sad part is, these  have dominated the news for most of Obama's time in office should never have happened. 


The United States has Immigration laws that go largly unenforced, now depending on what estimate you believe some where between 3% and 6% of the population is here illegally.

Eric Holder's Justice Department is back in the news again---No I don't think he decalred war on Texas, at least not yet. 

In a Alabama voting rights case however, the Judge mad it clear he wasn't impressed. "The department's handling of a voting rights case from Shelby County, Ala., has been so slipshod as to invite questions of its legal competence across the board."

 Remember the Black Panter Case, there's new information, possibly indicating the Justice Dearptment was less than truthful  . 



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GOP senators demand assurance of no 'backdoor' illegals amnesty

A series of new administration memos have effectively created a backdoor amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants, Senate Republicans charged Tuesday in a letter demanding that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano explain the policies.
Ms. Napolitano has said her department is trying to focus resources on illegal immigrants with long criminal records, but the letter, signed by all seven Republicans on the Senate committee that oversees immigration, said it appears that the administration is instead trying to carve out categories of illegal immigrants that won't be deported at all.
Indeed, the latest statistics show that the administration has dramatically stepped up removals of convicted criminal immigrants, deporting 51,981 more than last year, an increase of 42 percent, but deportation of other immigrants is down even more, dropping by 53,934 through August



New evidence undermines Justice Department spin

Now it appears Political Appointees were involved in the scandal

Thomas E. Perez, assistant attorney general for civil rights, is in big trouble. The public-interest group Judicial Watch yesterday released a 62-page index of documents regarding the New Black Panther Party voter-intimidation case that undermines the credibility of Mr. Perez and of the Department of Justice under Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.

For more than a year, The Washington Times has been reporting that Mr. Holder's top political appointees intervened to force the abandonment of serious sanctions against the Black Panther members who threatened voters at a Philadelphia polling place on Election Day 2008. The Justice Department denied the claim, with spokesman Tracy Schmaler asserting to the contrary that only "career employees" engaged in what supposedly was a decision based entirely on "the facts and the law." On May 14, Mr. Perez swore under oath before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights that there was no "political leadership involved in the decision not to pursue this particular case any further than it was" and that it was only "a case of career people disagreeing with career people.".............................

EDITORIAL: Holder smacked down over voting

A crimson tide of embarrassment rises at the Justice Department

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division has lurched from multiple controversies into an outright embarrassment. In an order issued Sept. 16, U.S. District Judge John D. Bates of the District of Columbia gave Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s team the legal equivalent of a 2-by-4 across the head. The department's handling of a voting rights case from Shelby County, Ala., has been so slipshod as to invite questions of its legal competence across the board.
Shelby County is challenging the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act's Section 5, an increasingly problematic requirement that election jurisdictions in several states, mostly Southern, secure "pre-clearance" from Justice for any change in voting practices. This includes minor details such as moving a polling place from a school gym to its cafeteria





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