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John Lennon's fight with INS and Obama's new executive order...Yes, related!
http://www.govexec.com/federal-news/fedblog/2014/12/beatles-role-obamas-immigration-order/100406/?oref=govexec_today_nlA Beatle’s Role in Obama’s Immigration Order
“The recent steps announced by President Obama to expand the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and now to offer deferred action to certain parents of U.S. and permanent residents have their roots in the John Lennon case,” Wildes wrote in a Dec. 2 op-ed in the North Jersey Record.
~snip~
During the five-year battle, immigration officials publicly said they were treating the Lennons no differently than any other undocumented person and that the then-Immigration and Naturalization Service had no option other than to deport every illegal alien. But “nothing was further from the truth,” said Wildes, who worked with his father “to prove that the government had full discretion and authority to withhold deportation in appropriate cases.”
~snip~
In 1976, Lennon was actually granted "non-priority" status (now referred to as "deferred action"
and soon a U.S. Court of Appeals had overturned Lennon's deportation order, and he was granted lawful permanent residence status.
“As a result, the Department of Homeland Security, which replaced the INS, makes use of its prosecutorial discretion today to consider deferred-action cases,” Wildes wrote. “It recognizes that like all law enforcement agencies, it has finite resources and it is not possible to investigate and prosecute every immigration violation…. Lennon's contribution to the development of this program of prosecutorial discretion should be recognized as a legacy of immense value that he bequeathed to his adopted homeland.”
“The recent steps announced by President Obama to expand the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and now to offer deferred action to certain parents of U.S. and permanent residents have their roots in the John Lennon case,” Wildes wrote in a Dec. 2 op-ed in the North Jersey Record.
~snip~
During the five-year battle, immigration officials publicly said they were treating the Lennons no differently than any other undocumented person and that the then-Immigration and Naturalization Service had no option other than to deport every illegal alien. But “nothing was further from the truth,” said Wildes, who worked with his father “to prove that the government had full discretion and authority to withhold deportation in appropriate cases.”
~snip~
In 1976, Lennon was actually granted "non-priority" status (now referred to as "deferred action"
and soon a U.S. Court of Appeals had overturned Lennon's deportation order, and he was granted lawful permanent residence status.
“As a result, the Department of Homeland Security, which replaced the INS, makes use of its prosecutorial discretion today to consider deferred-action cases,” Wildes wrote. “It recognizes that like all law enforcement agencies, it has finite resources and it is not possible to investigate and prosecute every immigration violation…. Lennon's contribution to the development of this program of prosecutorial discretion should be recognized as a legacy of immense value that he bequeathed to his adopted homeland.”
The World is just chock-full of interesting tidbits, ain't it?
