Obama Amnesty May Be a Federal Crime
(from Judicial Watch)
THE BIGGER QUESTION IS THE BLAH
BLAH BLAH FACTOR. WILL ANYONE .. I
MEAN ANYONE DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT
EXCEPT BITCH AND WHINE??
So, just how much
money is being spent in response to executive actions taken to house and
accommodate illegal aliens? Your Judicial Watch is calling on members of
Congress to take a hard look at the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
(DACA) program and the Deferred Action to Parents of Americans and Lawful
Permanent Residents (DAPA) program. These programs are two key parts of Obama's
illegal amnesty effort and involve violations of law that carry civil and
criminal penalties. Yesterday, as Obama's Democrat allies (with silent support,
I'm sure, from more than a few Republican colleagues) mounted a filibuster in
the United State Senate to prevent funding of the Department of Homeland
Security in order to enable
Obama's continued lawlessness, we urgently put out
an action item for your elected
representatives:
"Judicial Watch calls
upon Congress, its committees, or its members to request that the Government
Accountability Office (GAO) investigate, analyze, and opine on the following
issues:
"Whether Congress has
specifically appropriated the funds or has specifically authorized the
assessment of fees necessary for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
(USCIS) to implement the plans to extend Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
Program (DACA) and establish Deferred Action to Parents of Americans and Lawful
Permanent Residents (DAPA);
"To the extent no
funds have been specifically appropriated, whether USCIS is using funds
appropriated, including any monies raised by fees assessed by USCIS, for a
different, designated purpose to fund the implementation the plans to extend
DACA and establish DAPA;
"To the extent any
funds, including any monies raised by fees assessed by USCIS, are being used to
implement the plans to extend DACA and establish DAPA, whether the use of such
funds is unauthorized or prohibited.
"Whether USCIS is
using property or employees designated for a specific purpose to implement the
plans to extend DACA and establish DAPA, regardless of such
designation.
"The legal issues
involving the improper use of taxpayer dollars are urgent given that the USCIS
may have already entered into or imminently will enter into contracts and/or do
so. This unauthorized spending may be a direct violation of the Antideficiency
Act, which makes it a violation of law, with potential civil and criminal
penalties, for government officials to spend monies that have not been
appropriated by Congress. President Obama's nullification of immigration law is
broad and involves numerous policies in multiple federal agencies, but the
center of the storm is in USCIS, where monies are being misspent in ways
contrary to the fundamental purpose of that law enforcement
agency."
Our legal team
reports that the Antideficiency
Act generally prohibits an officer or employee of the
U.S. government from:
[M]aking or authorizing an expenditure from, or creating or
authorizing an obligation under, any appropriation or fund in excess of the
amount available in the appropriation or fund unless authorized by law;
involving the government in any obligation to pay money before funds have been
appropriated for that purpose, unless otherwise allowed by law; accepting
voluntary services for the United States, or employing personal services not
authorized by law, except in cases of emergency involving the safety of human
life or the protection of property; making obligations or expenditures in excess
of an apportionment or reapportionment, or in excess of the amount permitted by
agency regulations.
To the extent an
officer or employee may be in violation of the Antideficiency Act, Congress
mandates that the Comptroller General, the head of GAO, conduct an investigation
of the matter. The Obama gang was most recently found to have violated this law
by the GAO in the scandalous release of terrorists in
the Bergdahl swap
scandal.
The
GAO warns that violators of the
Antideficiency Act:
"[S]hall be subject
to appropriate administrative discipline including, when circumstances warrant,
suspension from duty without pay or removal from
office."
In addition, an
officer or employee who "knowingly and willfully" violates [the law] "shall be
fined not more than $5,000, imprisoned for not more than 2 years, or
both."
Some in the U.S.
Senate seem to understand the legal stakes. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) joined
with Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Homeland Security
Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI.) to write a
letteraddressed to Joseph Moore, Chief Financial Officer
for the USCIS, that asks for highly pertinent financial
information. The letter correctly points out that Obama's directives "will
redirect scarce resources away" from the USCIS's "core mission" for activities
Congress never approved. And, it makes the following, very pointed,
request:
To assist us in our
constitutional oversight responsibilities, we are asking you, as Chief Financial
Officer, to provide a detailed accounting of all expenditures by USCIS to date
and a projection of all temporary and permanent expenditures for these executive
actions, including the source of the funds to be used and the specific accounts
in which the funds are located, in dollar amounts. Please also indicate the
amount USCIS is projected to spend on these programs from FY2015 through FY2025
on a monthly and annual basis.
Instead of doing the
public's business to enforce immigration law, the USCIS has been hijacked by
President Obama and his appointees to aid, abet, and harbor illegal aliens - in
absolute violation of the law. Obviously, Congress never appropriated money for
the lawlessness. The strict enforcement of the Antideficiency Act against this
egregious misappropriation of government monies (your tax dollars) is one more
"rule of law" tool that may help to bring the administration's illicit actions
to a halt.
TIME FOR REVOLUTION.... THIS IS
SOLVED ONLY BY
DRASTIC ACTION..
