Rep. Lamar Smith: Obama Deportation Order ‘Overrules Courts’

New rules designed to prevent the deportation of illegal immigrants who keep to the law once they are here will supersede court orders, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith contends.

Even when a judge has ordered an alien to leave the country, the government can overturn it, the Texas Republican said during a radio interview.

“This is clearly amnesty,” Smith told talk show host Joe “Pags” Pagliarulo on San Antonio’s WOAI News Radio. “It is clearly circumventing the right of Congress to try to implement policy.

“They can even reverse a final order by a judge who has told an individual that they have got to leave the country. Even that can be reversed and that individual may not be sent home.”

The new rules, which were introduced by executive order after the administration felt if could not get them through Congress, state that deportations should be focused on “criminal aliens, those who pose a threat to public safety and repeat immigration law violators.”

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