I just heard this on The Mark Levin radio show. Something that should make your blood pressure rise even more.

It looks like there is a memo making the rounds in Congress that is suggesting a mechanism to grease the skids for an amnesty program that would bypass any Congressional vote or approval. And as is usually the case, let the bureaucrats make up the rules, set the standards and call the shots.

From the NRO Corner:

According to an internal U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services memo going the rounds of Capitol Hill and obtained by National Review, the agency is considering ways in which it could enact “meaningful immigration reform absent legislative action” — that is, without the consent of the American people through a vote in Congress.

“This memorandum offers administrative relief options to . . . reduce the threat of removal for certain individuals present in the United States without authorization,” it reads.

Also: “In the absence of Comprehensive Immigration Reform, USCIS can extend benefits and/or protections to many individuals and groups by issuing new guidance and regulations, exercising discretion with regard to parole-in-place, deferred action and the issuance of Notices to Appear (NTA), and adopting significant process improvements.”

While the memo does not seem to suggest a massive, all-inclusive amnesty ala the McCain-Kennedy bill, it looks the thrust of the memo’s suggestions would be to do it in large chunks.

The memo claims that there are no limits to USCIS’s ability to use deferred action, but warns that using this power indiscriminately would be “controversial, not to mention expensive.” The memo suggests using deferred action to exempt “particular groups” from removal — such as the illegal-immigrant high-school graduates who would fall under the DREAM Act (a measure that has been shot down repeatedly in Congress). The memo claims that the DREAM Act would cover “an estimated 50,000” individuals, though as many as 65,000 illegal immigrants graduate high school every year in the U.S.

So, just like with first the Supreme Court and now the Obama administration giving law-making and regulatory fiat power to the EPA to implement Crap and Steal, the same type of chicanery would now be applied to the enforcing (or not) of the status of illegal immigrants.

Viva ICE?

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