Brownsville has found itself at the center of the immigration debate.
First came a lawsuit by a California dentist and attorney challenging immigration policies and practices. Next came a lawsuit brought by Texas and 16 other states challenging President Barack Obama’s executive actions.
Both lawsuits were filed in federal court in Brownsville. Both contend that Obama’s actions are illegal.
Orly Taitz, a California dentist, attorney and activist in the Birther movement, sued July 14 and is seeking an injunction against the president.
The Texas-plus-16 states now do too.
U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen of the Southern District of Texas is presiding over both cases. These have not been consolidated. Rulings are pending.
Hanen has been very clear about his concerns regarding the application of immigration policies.
He also has been
very clear about the
role he deems a federal court has.
“This is not a forum to resolve political issues,” Hanen said at a hearing on the Taitz case.
“We’re not here to resolve any kind of immigration crisis, political questions, or border security issues. That’s not why we’re here,” Hanen said. “Those topics are not to be decided by courts,” he said, noting that these rest with Congress and the Executive Branch.
“I want to make
that clear.”
The other states besides Texas that sued the president are Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Mississippi, Maine and North Carolina.
“This lawsuit is not about immigration. It is about the rule of law, presidential power, and the structural limits of the U.S. Constitution,” the states claim.
They maintain that the president “rewrote the law,” and that his actions were “unlawful.”
In her lawsuit, Taitz referred to an order Hanen entered in December 2013 in an unrelated case, United States of America vs. Mirtha Veronica Nava-Martinez, who was convicted of attempting to smuggle a 10-year-old girl from El Salvador.
Court records show that the girl’s mother Salmeron Santos, an undocumented immigrant, admitted that she had hired smugglers to transfer her child from El Salvador to Virginia and paid a $6,000 advance for the service. The Department of Homeland Security delivered the child to her mother.
“‘This court is quite concerned with the apparent policy of the Department of Homeland Security … of completing the criminal mission of individuals who are violating the border security of the United States … The DHS, instead of enforcing our border security laws, actually assisted the criminal conspiracy in achieving its illegal goals,’” Taitz quoted from Hanen’s order in that case.
The Texas-plus-16 now also referenced the case.
A ruling is forthcoming on whether Taitz has standing to request that the government be stopped from sending undocumented immigrants from South Texas to other states and to require a travel ban to Ebola hotspots in Africa. She accuses Obama and others of “trafficking illegal aliens.”
Taitz is requesting court orders that undocumented immigrants not be moved to other states, or in the alternative, that they be either deported or held in quarantine for two months because they spread epidemics of scabies, tuberculosis, measles, whooping cough, swine flu, dengue fever, the Ebola virus and
lice, and pose a threat
to national security
and safety.
On Nov. 26, she requested an injunction following Obama’s executive actions.
The Texas-plus-16 now seek an injunction also to stop the implementation of the president’s action regarding undocumented immigrants in this country.
Taitz accuses Obama and others of treason, racketeering and trafficking undocumented immigrants to provide cheap labor for their donors.
The Texas-plus-16: “The president’s action has an Alice-in-Wonderland quality — demanding that Congress pass a law to prevent him from making his own.”
“The president has turned the Constitution on its head…,” they add, pointing out that intervention is necessary to “undo the President’s lawlessness…”
It will be virtually impossible to unscramble the egg once defendants (Obama et al) give out lawful-presence documents to millions of people who are not lawfully present in the United States,” the Texas-plus-16 argue.
They ask Hanen to “unscramble the eggs” so that they won’t be irreparably injured.
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Videography by Barbara Rosenfeld 
December 7th, 2014 @ 6:54 am
Perhaps this is the case of the ILLEGAL PIED PIPER tooting his tune to entice other Illegals over the border by hook or by CROOK!:
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https://watchdog.org/155518/fake-birth-certificates-find-easy-live-american-dream/
Now, fast forward to 2014… Watchdog Florida reports: Those with fake birth certificates find it’s easy to live the American dream
It may be getting harder to sneak into the United States, but once you’ve arrived, getting fake documents in Florida is a piece of cake.
Counterfeit, altered or stolen birth certificates coming
from Puerto Rico
are the
Holy Grail
to Florida’s undocumented.
With a phony birth certificate you can live the American dream. You can also enroll in school, land a job and get a driver’s license.
(It has also been estimated that up to 40 percent of the passport fraud in the United States involves counterfeit or stolen birth certificates from Puerto Rico.)