Obama Sets Clear Intent Towards Dismantling Immigration Laws in the New Year

From FAIR:

Obama Sets Clear Intent Towards Dismantling Immigration Laws in the New Year

Over the course of 2011, the Obama Administration started down a path leading towards a wide-ranging administrative amnesty. You'll find the president has wasted no time in 2012, gaining momentum proposing and passing more "policy changes" that thwart US Immigration laws.

• Despite claiming resources are too limited to comprehensively enforce immigration laws, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) announced the creation of a Detainee Hotline. This will be staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week with translation services available in several languages to accommodate those who "believe they may be U.S. citizens or victims of a crime."
  
• ICE, responsible for issuing detainers for illegal alien criminals to ensure they are present for criminal and deportation hearings, has altered policy to allow only making a detainer effective upon an alien's conviction of a crime for which the alien was arrested. This shift to a discretionary "post-conviction" detainer ignores the fact that being in the country illegally is a violation of federal law while simultaneously welcoming criminal aliens back onto the streets since many may post bond and abscond before ever being convicted or may ultimately be convicted of a lesser offense.
  
• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) proposed a new rule that would help illegal aliens skirt the statutory 3 and 10-year bars to admission. The rule seeks to allow illegal alien relatives of U.S. citizens to stay in the U.S. while seeking waivers from the law, rather than doing so from outside the country. Congress passed the 3 and 10-year bars to inadmissibility in 1996 to discourage illegal immigration and marriage fraud.
  
• President Obama issued an executive order Thursday that will make it easier for aliens to obtain nonimmigrant visas by waiving screening safeguards, increasing the potential for terrorism and visa over-stays. In addition to relaxing the screening process for issuing visas, President Obama also proposed expanding the Visa Waiver Program.
  
• ICE attorneys in Denver and Baltimore have recommended that the agency "administratively close" 1,667 removal cases. The recommendation is a result of a six-week pilot review of all pending deportation cases in Denver and Baltimore immigration courts.