villain Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Broad unregulated powers for the director of Homeland Security "SEC. 102. WAIVER OF LAWS NECESSARY FOR IMPROVEMENT OF BARRIERS AT BORDERS. Section 102© of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1103 note) is amended to read as follows: `© Waiver- `(1) IN GENERAL- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall have the authority to waive, and shall waive, all laws such Secretary, in such Secretary's sole discretion, determines necessary to ensure expeditious construction of the barriers and roads under this section. `(2) NO JUDICIAL REVIEW- Notwithstanding any other provision of law (statutory or nonstatutory), no court shall have jurisdiction-- `(A) to hear any cause or claim arising from any action undertaken, or any decision made, by the Secretary of Homeland Security pursuant to paragraph (1); or `(B) to order compensatory, declaratory, injunctive, equitable, or any other relief for damage alleged to arise from any such action or decision.'." http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c109...09RaEOiV:e3398: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest westy Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Pffffft. And on a sort of related note; today I found out that there are homeland security aa degrees offered through those crappy correspondance schools. whatever the fuck that would be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mental invalid Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 do you think it will pass? its so unrepublican when you think about it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villain Posted February 17, 2005 Author Share Posted February 17, 2005 True enough.... I have seen alot of republican objections to the National ID part and other parts..... I dunno.... more often than not it's a matter of how many people you can buy off with pork barrel spending sadly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaperbackWriter Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 Originally posted by villain@Feb 17 2005, 12:16 AM .... more often than not it's a matter of how many people you can buy off with pork barrel spending sadly. Quoted post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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