Senate Republicans are pressing the Obama administration on its newly revealed plans to use a facility initially leased to house employees who would process executive amnesty — currently blocked by a court injunction — as a general immigration service center without consulting Congress.
As Breitbart News reported Thursday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has confirmed that it will be using the building leased in Arlington, Virginia’s Crystal City neighborhood to process executive amnesty workloads to instead process other immigration benefits not held up in the courts.
In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, Office of Management and Budget Director Shaun Donovan and General Services Administration Acting Administrator Denise Turner Roth, Republican Members of the the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committees, express concern about the unilateral decision and warn it could violate the ongoing injunction blocking executive amnesty.
“It appears USCIS intends to circumvent Congress yet again, this time by not consulting with Congress or the public regarding the designation of a new Service Center. Following the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) established four Service Centers in California, Texas, Nebraska and Vermont to process benefits applications arising from that legislation. The Service Centers were established as a direct result of Congress passing a legalization program and expanding benefits to a certain defined class.”
