going to receive any kind of dismissal or consideration. megyn: i m going to get to you mark in one second. i just want to finish this up. john, let me ask you this, what now happens to your clients to have been released from these cases? well, they simply get to go on with their lives, knowing that these cases could always be refiled in the future. they can t you know, they can at least unless they have a petitioning relative who is a u.s. citizen and various other things that come into play they can t get a social security card, they can t get a work card, they simply go on with their lives knowing that they don t have to appear for court in the future on this matter unless the service reinstates these cases. megyn: okay. mark, let me bring you in. how is that not amnesty? yeah, that was what i was going to ask, that s amnesty. they get to go back to their illegal jobs. you know, it s amnesty. this is actually even more harmful, i think, than simply what the immigration service
immigration reform which president obama has not been pushing and which cannot get passed right now in the u.s. congress. is this a back door effort at it. in an informal sense, yes. clearly they are not getting green cards or any legal status and there are no laws being broken by ice, we need to understand that. megyn: because they have the discretion to drop cases. right, that s what i m saying. this is a policy decision that is in fact trying to make an end run around congress. in other words, they are saying and other parts of the immigration burr rock crass see of beauracracy are doing the same thing. they are saying look congress isn t giving us the amnesty we want. let s abuse our existing authority in ways to create a kind of de facto amnesty for as many of the illegals as we can. megyn: just as long as you haven t committed a crime and been in the country longer than two years. i know there is a resources problem at ice. but some in the u.s. congress, including represe
priorities changing their priorities, they are only going to go after the more serious criminals, what have you. decisions like that have to happen all the time. these are people who are actually in the pipeline for deportation, and they are just being let go. this is much more harmful. it s disspiriting to the immigration agents, and it sends a message to the illegal immigrants themselves that they are off the hook. as long as the only crimes they are committing are identity theft and illegal entry in the united states, and perjury in getting a job, because those are all federal crimes that most illegals commit, but as long as that s the only felonies they are committing on not other felonies then they are off the hook, that s the message that is being sent. megyn: is this an end around the law. to grant amnesty as we saw in the 80s you had to get congress and the approval of the american people. that s one of the things that some have been pushing for with respect to comprehensive