Judge Wants Government To Hand Over Names, Addresses Of Thousands Of Dreamers

[WhiteTara]

Source: Huffington Post

About 108,000 young undocumented immigrants received three-year protections and U.S. work permits in a several-month period in late 2014 and early 2015. They hadn’t done anything wrong — they just applied for a government program in the same way hundreds of thousands of so-called Dreamers have done since the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program started in 2012.

But the fact that they got those three-year permits, rather than the two-year permits distributed since 2012, could put them at risk of having their personal information — including names and addresses — released to state authorities.

This would be as a result of a Thursday court order by U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen, who last year blocked President Barack Obama’s 2014 executive actions on immigration reform — namely, an expansion of DACA and a new program for parents called Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, or DAPA.

The Supreme Court is currently considering whether those executive actions should be allowed to move forward. But in the meantime, Hanen, who is based in Brownsville, Texas, is railing from the bench over the Justice Department attorneys’ actions in his court, where the lawsuit from 26 states started.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/judge-andrew-hanen-dreamers_us_573f2d2de4b00e09e89ed3ef

[underthematrix]

1. And this is why I work my heart out during the GE to make sure we

turn DC totally blue - WH, House, and Senate

[Andy823]

2. I agree completely

Those who say it "doesn't matter" who wins in November really don't understand just how much is at stake.

[branford]

3. The blame and opprobium should be directed at the DOJ and White House.

They admittedly violated the court's injunction (which was upheld by the 5th Circuit) among other very problematic conduct.

Demanding the names of the over 100,000 people who improperly received the three year permits was to ensure that they could easily be identified later and the permits revoked in the event the relevant provisions of the DADA were successfully challenged.

It's not hard to imagine that various people at the DOJ or White House believed that if they provided the permits, there would be little the courts or anyone else could do even if DADA was struck down in whole or in part, and they were willing to take the political and legal risks of violating the order.

Regardless of whether the violation of the injunction was deliberate or grossly negligent, the court is unsurprisingly determined to ensure the government doesn't benefit from its own malfeasance or the Dreamers provided with permits to which they were never entitled.

Regardless of how you feel about the DADA and injunction, the DOJ cannot simply disregard explicit court orders, no less willfully do so for political reasons.

[ashling]

4. We are all Dreamers

[hopemountain]

5. todos somos gente ~

mitakuye oyasin