Theoretically, they could have been detained on the spot and held for deportation. There were surely lots of federal agents around. But that's not how the Obama Administration does things, CNS News reports:
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met in the Oval Office on Tuesday with three people who are in the country in violation of U.S. immigration laws but who have received "deferred action" allowing them to stay in the country under the terms of a "memorandum" issued unilaterally last year by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
While conceding that she had no legal authority to change the "immigration status" of illegal aliens or provide them with a "pathway to citizenship," Napolitano instructed the top officials at Customs and Border Protection, Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement to use what she called "prosecutorial discretion" in not enforcing the immigration laws against certain classes of immigration lawbreakers.
Lovely. I'm not really supposed to do this, but hey, I like you. Don't tell my boss. Oh! He's sitting right there!
I would go on about Obama's lack of respect for the rule of law, but that's hardly necessary these days, so I'll just get to what you all knew was coming. Too bad for these guys Obama wasn't president in 1983. They could have just waltzed right across the border . . . and into the White House.
