BROWNSVILLE — California dentist and attorney Orly Taitz is challenging the transfer of undocumented immigrants from South Texas to other states, saying they would spread epidemics of scabies, tuberculosis, measles, whooping cough, swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and lice.
Taitz filed the lawsuit July 14 in federal court, naming President Barack Obama, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell and the Rio Grande Valley Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol.
She is seeking to stop what she called the “dumping” of undocumented immigrants on unsuspecting populations in California and other areas in the country.
The lawsuit claims the transfers would cause economic damage and pose serious threats to national security and public health and safety and spread infectious diseases.
She seeks either the immediate deportation of undocumented immigrants or a two-month quarantine of them in an enclosed temporary or permanent Federal Emergency Management Agency facility.
Taitz also is an activist in the Birther movement. Her biography states that she is well known throughout the country, and she claims to have “exposed” Obama’s “illegitimacy to the U.S. presidency.”
She also is the president of Defend Our Freedoms Foundation.
Presiding U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen ordered the defendants to respond to Taitz’s request for an emergency stay or injunction by Aug. 11.
“The court will consider the reply and the application and either rule or schedule the matter for hearing,” Hanen wrote in an Aug. 1 order.
Hanen also directed the government’s attorney to notify the California Attorney General’s Office about the lawsuit and deadlines so that it may participate, if it desires.
U.S. Department of Justice attorney Colin A. Kisor referred questions about the lawsuit to his office’s public affairs department.
Taitz also is seeking a stay of the release of undocumented immigrants who did not complete a two-month quarantine before they are released into communities. Her lawsuit also would require the undocumented immigrants to undergo medical screening, obtain a medical release, prove a clean criminal record in their native countries, and obtain an order from a federal judge regarding immigration status before they are released.
She also wants Hanen to provide evidence presented in the case to a federal grand jury to prosecute the president and others for criminal offenses, including conspiracy, racketeering, human trafficking and treason.
“This is nothing short of an orchestrated invasion, perpetrated to supply cheap labor for a group of billionaires and flagrantly rob American citizens of their jobs, wages and benefits and expose them to epidemics of infectious diseases and crime,” Taitz claims.
“As if this weren’t bad enough, the invasion is also supplying the nation’s most dangerous street gangs with new soldiers,” she further charged, claiming that gangs are on a “recruiting frenzy” at facilities housing the undocumented immigrants.
In her lawsuit, Taitz referred to an order Hanen entered in December 2013 in an unrelated case, United States of America vs. Mirtha Veronica Nava-Martinez, who was convicted of attempting to smuggle a 10-year-old girl from El Salvador.
Court records show that the girl’s mother Salmeron Santos, an undocumented immigrant, admitted that she had hired smugglers to transfer her child from El Salvador to Virginia and paid a $6,000 advance for the service. DHS delivered the child to her mother.
“‘This court is quite concerned with the apparent policy of the Department of Homeland Security … of completing the criminal mission of individuals who are violating the border security of the United States … The DHS, instead of enforcing our border security laws, actually assisted the criminal conspiracy in achieving its illegal goals,’” Taitz quoted from Hanen’s order in the that case.
Regarding Taitz’s allegations, Michael Seifert of the RGV Equal Voice Network said: “The lawsuit filed by the dentist from California is another example of a misplaced and exaggerated fear. From all public evidence, the authorities in charge of the children have gone overboard in assuring that the children offer no public health threat to others.
“To the contrary, a more appropriate lawsuit would be on the behalf of these children, to assure that they have access to the finest therapy to help them recover from the horrors that made them leave the place that they had called home,” Seifert added.
August 9th, 2014 @ 4:27 am
Keeping my fingers crossed that this is an honest judge!!! Thank you Orly for all that you do!!!
August 9th, 2014 @ 7:23 am
These are not complex issues!
Simply, the method of EXECUTION of the Laws cannot degenerate into a violation of the Original INTENT of the Laws!
August 9th, 2014 @ 7:59 am
Ron Paul: US “hiding truth” on downed Malaysian plane.
https://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-us-hiding-truth-on-downed-malaysian-plane/
August 9th, 2014 @ 10:18 am
Defending Barry’s defiance of our nation’s constitution and his defiance of our immigration, health and other laws was a tough assignment, but despite 33 pages of verbiage, Colin Kisor fails to address the real issue at hand, namely the safety of U.S. legal residents. In defending Barry’s defiance, Kisor apparently believes that the judge is a naïve simpleton who will be lost and over-whelmed by his many words, and distracted from the real issue at hand. What an arrogant insult! In a word, Kisor failed to show cause why sick and diseased illegal aliens ought be release into our general population and no longer be denied entry. He ought to read the history of Ellis Island and the common-sense philosophy on which it was based!
August 9th, 2014 @ 10:26 am
The fact that this does represent a total disregard of immigration law and a blatant criminal act by this traitorous regime and the fraud in charge, that does defy all logic and reason for strict border control, the need for an itemized list of undeniable,undesired, consequences and true concrete dangers that will be (and unquestionably anticipated)the result should be deemed redundant.
August 9th, 2014 @ 10:56 am
Colin Kisor not only skates around the safety of U.S. residents, but also ignores the rule of law. Hopefully, judge Hanen will notice and not let him by with it.
August 9th, 2014 @ 7:26 pm
I am totally confused? Was there some kind of an extension granted or does this sorry administration have to answer by the 11th? I like others just hope somewhere Orly can find ONE honest Judge.
August 9th, 2014 @ 10:19 pm
The U.S. map showing the relocation of unaccompanied (illegal) minors which has been put together by Numbers USA is no longer showing the locations!! The locations are designated as: implemented or proposed. Looks like “someone” does NOT want the citizens of the U.S. to know where these illegals are being sent to. The last time the map was showing the locations, my state of MI had 2 implemented and 4 proposed! Contacting Numbers USA is also unavailable. This bull!!
August 10th, 2014 @ 6:43 am
they answered on friday and I sent the reply. The judge will rule any day now