{"id":9437,"date":"2015-11-10T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=9437"},"modified":"2015-11-10T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T20:00:08","slug":"border-security-update-illegal-executive-amnesty-program-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/10\/border-security-update-illegal-executive-amnesty-program-shut-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Security Update: Illegal Executive Amnesty Program Shut Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Well, today is turning out to be a Great Day..not only is it the USMC&#8217;s Birthday, but it also the day when one of the most grievous and totalitarian Executive Actions in the history of the Presidential Office, the &#8220;Immigration Amnesty Act&#8221; has been shot down by the courts.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9438\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/obamaimmigrationpolicycartoon.jpg\" alt=\"ObamaImmigrationPolicyCartoon\" width=\"500\" height=\"412\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling on Monday evening effectively putting a halt to President Barack Obama\u2019s executive amnesty program. Texas and 26 other states joined in the lawsuit to block the Administration\u2019s illegal action.<\/h2>\n<p>The Court ruled the lower court did not err in granting a temporary injunction blocking President Obama\u2019s executive amnesty program. Federal Judge Andrew Hanen previously issued a temporary injunction stopping the president\u2019s actions, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2015\/02\/16\/breaking-texas-federal-court-issues-injunction-to-stop-obamas-executive-amnesty\/\">reported<\/a> by Breitbart Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court\u2019s decision is a vindication for the Rule of Law and the Constitution,\u201d said Texas Governor Abbott in a statement obtained by Breitbart Texas. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/texas\/2014\/12\/03\/texas-sues-obama-over-illegal-immigration-leads-17-state-coalition\/\">Abbott initially filed the lawsuit<\/a> in 2014 duing his final months as Texas\u2019 Attorney General. \u201cThe President\u2019s job is to enforce the immigration laws, not rewrite them. President Obama should abandon his lawless executive amnesty program and start enforcing the law today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Judge Hanen initially wrote: \u201cThe ultimate question before the Court is: Do the laws of the United States, including the Constitution, give the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) the power to take the action at issue in this case?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/texas\/2015\/11\/09\/appeals-court-stops-obamas-executive-amnesty\/\">Breitbart Texas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, today is turning out to be a Great Day..not only is it the USMC&#8217;s Birthday, but it also the day when one of the most grievous and totalitarian Executive Actions in the history of the Presidential Office, the &#8220;Immigration Amnesty Act&#8221; has been shot down by the courts.\u00a0 &nbsp; The Fifth Circuit Court of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13,74,1635,2620,1189,2352],"tags":[2934,2615,2935,2936],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}