'Smoking Gun Amnesty Memo' Prompts GOP To Demand Hearings
Sam Stein
HuffPost
First Posted: 08- 4-10
Senate Republicans are demanding hearings into a leaked Department of Homeland Security memo that has stoked conservative fears that the Obama administration is pursuing de facto amnesty for millions of undocumented immigrants.
But a closer look at the issue, and the circumstances surrounding the memo, suggest that the calls for hearings are more likely driven either by politics or paranoia.
On Tuesday, the Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) insisting that he "schedule a hearing as soon as possible" into an internal memorandum leaked last week from Citizenship and Immigration Services, a subset of DHS. The memo in question laid out a variety of available options the agency could take to "reduce the threat of removal for certain individuals present in the United States without authorization."
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who reportedly released the document, insisted that the White House was planning to skirt congressional authority in efforts to grant amnesty to a wide swath of immigrants. Soon conservative media outlets began howling with discontent. "Smoking Gun Amnesty Memo Discovered," blared Fox News.
(More here.)
HuffPost
First Posted: 08- 4-10
Senate Republicans are demanding hearings into a leaked Department of Homeland Security memo that has stoked conservative fears that the Obama administration is pursuing de facto amnesty for millions of undocumented immigrants.
But a closer look at the issue, and the circumstances surrounding the memo, suggest that the calls for hearings are more likely driven either by politics or paranoia.
On Tuesday, the Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) insisting that he "schedule a hearing as soon as possible" into an internal memorandum leaked last week from Citizenship and Immigration Services, a subset of DHS. The memo in question laid out a variety of available options the agency could take to "reduce the threat of removal for certain individuals present in the United States without authorization."
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who reportedly released the document, insisted that the White House was planning to skirt congressional authority in efforts to grant amnesty to a wide swath of immigrants. Soon conservative media outlets began howling with discontent. "Smoking Gun Amnesty Memo Discovered," blared Fox News.
(More here.)
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