Homeland Security Administratively Implements the DREAM Act

	Call Secretary Napolitano NOW and Tell Her You Object

We need your help NOW to stop the Obama Administration’s DREAM Act!

This morning, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it intends to ignore the Constitution, usurp Congressional authority, and administratively implement the DREAM Act. The announcement came through an official policy memo, signed by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, followed by a conference call led by Napolitano herself. According to this announcement, effective immediately, the Obama Administration will stop deporting illegal aliens who qualify for the DREAM Act by granting these illegal aliens “deferred action” and work authorization.

Deferred action status is what DHS grants when it decides, in its own discretion, not to remove an illegal alien. Those who receive deferred action usually also receive work authorization and DHS has confirmed that illegal aliens granted deferred action pursuant to the new policy memo (dated today, June 15, 2012) will be eligible for work authorization. There is no statutory basis for deferred action status, as it is merely referred to in the federal regulations (See, e.g. USCIS Ombudsman memo, Apr. 6, 2007 (citing 8 C.F.R. 274a.12(c)(14)). Even more troubling, deferred action is not subject to judicial review. (Reno v. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Comm., 525 U.S. 471, 484, 492 (1999))

While this new policy is effective immediately, Secretary Napolitano has directed U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to create an application process that will be fully operational within 60 days. The DHS estimates that nearly 1 million illegal aliens will be given a reprieve through its new policy! (To read more details about the announcement, please see our website.)

FAIR is urging all of our members, activists, and friends to LOUDLY voice their objection to the Obama Administration’s new policy. We need the Obama Administration to hear the voices of Americans across the country who believe in the rule of law, otherwise it will only hear kudos from the amnesty lobby.

Please call the White House, the Department of Homeland Security, and your members of Congress and tell them:

• You believe in the rule of law; it is the bedrock of our great nation.
• You want an immigration system with integrity and our immigration laws enforced.
• Congress, not the Executive Branch, has sole authority to establish our immigration laws; it is the responsibility of the Executive Branch to enforce them.
• You object to illegal aliens through “deferred action” or any other executive maneuver.
• It not only undermines the rule of law, but only encourages more illegal immigration.
• It also is an act of shameless political pandering five months before the presidential election.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security:

Operator Number: 202-282-8000

Comment Line: 202-282-8495

White House:

Comments: 202-456-1111

Switchboard: 202-456-1414

U.S. Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121