Another law being ignored
Via WFB
Rep. Diane Black (R., Tenn.) has been fighting for more than a year to eliminate a wasteful and abusive office within the Department of Homeland Security that the Obama administration continues despite it being defunded by Congress.
Black put a halt to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) “public advocate,” a lobbying agent for illegal immigrants awaiting deportation. Her amendment to end the program was signed into law by President Barack Obama in March 2013.
Black discovered that the program was still there five months later under a different name.
“It really flew in the face of ‘Gee whiz, I’m an imperial president and I can do whatever I want to do,’” Black said in an interview with the Washington Free Beacon. “When you sign something into law, as the president he is sworn to uphold the law. And to skirt what Congress did really bothered me.”
The position, which was given to ICE Senior Adviser Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, serves as a “point of contact for individuals, including those in immigration proceedings, non-governmental organizations and other community and advocacy groups.”