National Review Online is reporting today on “The Amnesty Memo.”  This is an internal U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services memo obtained by NATIONAL REVIEW.  This memo states that the agency is considering how to enact “meaningful immigration reform absent legislative action.”   In plain English, that means how to pass immigration reform without the bother of going through Congress.

The article lists some of the provisions in the memo:

“In the absence of Comprehensive Immigration Reform, USCIS can extend benefits and/or protections to many individuals and groups by issuing new guidance and regulations, exercising discretion with regard to parole-in-place, deferred action and the issuance of Notices to Appear (NTA), and adopting significant process improvements.”

The article concludes:

“In the immediate wake of the court decision blocking the Arizona immigration law yesterday, the memo is sure to create controversy — and the sense that the administration is bent on preserving and extending the nation‘s de facto amnesty.”

We already have the Environmental Protection Agency attempting to enact Cap and Trade laws without going through Congress, now we have Immigration pondering if they can initiate amnesty for illegal aliens without bothering Congress with the details.  Unless Congress decides to take a stand against this sort of thing, we will lose our democracy.