{"id":7693,"date":"2014-09-18T15:25:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T19:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=7693"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:43:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:43:42","slug":"former-associate-of-uscis-senior-counselor-seeks-war-crimes-indictment-against-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/09\/18\/former-associate-of-uscis-senior-counselor-seeks-war-crimes-indictment-against-president-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Associate of USCIS Senior Counselor Seeks War Crimes Indictment Against President Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"
In a recent blog<\/a> post, Dan Stein detailed newly appointed USCIS Senior Counselor Lucas Guttentag\u2019s long record of undermining U.S. immigration enforcement, while he was director of the ACLU\u2019s national Immigrants\u2019 Rights Project (IRP). In his capacity as the national director of the IRP, Guttentag oversaw the work of IRPs that operate from the ACLU\u2019s state chapters.<\/p>\n The IRP of Georgia\u2019s ACLU chapter is run by Azadeh Shahshahani<\/a>. Ms. Shahshahani and the Georgia IRP were key players in attempting to prevent a Georgia immigration enforcement law, HB 87<\/a>, from being implemented. (The legal challenge to HB 87 occurred in 2011 after Guttentag had stepped down as IRP\u2019s national director, but her service as Georgia IRP director overlapped with Guttentag\u2019s tenure.)<\/p>\n Shahshahani also wears another hat. She serves as president of the National Lawyers Guild<\/a> (NLG), a self-declared \u201canti-capitalist organization<\/a>.\u201d In her capacity as NLG president, Shahshahani recently petitioned the International Criminal Court<\/a> in the The Hague urging the investigation and possible indictment of President Obama for having \u201caided and abetted the commission of war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n The basis of Shahshahani\u2019s allegations against President Obama is that he signed an August 2014 Appropriations bill providing $225 million in aid for Israel\u2019s Iron Dome missile system \u2013 a purely defensive weapon that successfully intercepted thousands of Hamas rockets fired at Israeli civilian targets. Also charged in Shahshahani\u2019s letter to the International Court are Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and unnamed Members of Congress.<\/p>\n