ZitatRule Of Law: A federal judge rules that border agents can proceed with a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of DHS directives ordering the agents to break the law — or have their careers threatened.
When those charged with enforcing existing federal law on immigration have to sue their bosses to be allowed to do their jobs, it doesn't say much for the prospects of immigration reform being hammered out in Congress, allegedly a legislative priority of a president who picks when, how and if he'll enforce the law.
On Friday, Federal Judge Reed O'Conner ruled that 10 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and officers do have standing to challenge in federal court the so-called Morton Memo on prosecutorial discretion and the Dream directive on deferred action....
...But if you think the border will be more secure and the immigration problem resolved under any new law the president will selectively enforce, if at all, dream on.