Posted on 04/01/2011 10:08:54 AM PDT by jazusamo
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday that illegal immigrant students and young adults who meet the criteria in last year’s failed legalization bill in Congress are not a “priority” for her department’s law enforcement efforts.
Wading into an increasingly thorny debate, Miss Napolitano said she cannot unilaterally ignore deportations laws for broad groups of illegal immigrants, but said students and young adults who would have been legalized had last year’s “Dream Act” legislation passed Congress are not a chief target of federal authorities.
“I will say, and can say, that you know what? They are not, that group, if they truly meet all those criteria, and we see very few of them actually in the immigration system, if they truly meet those [criteria], they’re not the priority,” the secretary said at an event sponsored by NDN, a progressive think tank and advocacy group, on the future of the nation’s border policies.
“The reason we set priorities is so that the focus could be on those in the country who are also committing other illegal acts,” she said.
Miss Napolitano also insisted that the border is more secure now than in the past, and said that claims to the contrary are not only hurting business in those communities along the border, they show disrespect to those trying to enforce immigration laws.
“It is simply inaccurate to state, as too many have, that the border with Mexico is overrun or out of control,” she said. “This statement — I think sometimes it’s made to score some political points — but it’s wrong. It’s just plain wrong.”
Alan Krieger, mayor of Yuma, a city on the border in the southwest corner of Arizona, said the questions about the security of the region do hurt, but they are based on false perceptions.
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wtf is this a kingdom?
Members of this administration opt to simply deem legislation passed instead of dealing with the laborious process outlined in the constitution.
Janet did you take a Oath of office??? Then OBEY IT!
She is deeming the Dream Act passed.
Well, it sure is NOT a nation of laws. The USSA is headed for the ash heap of history.
Yeah, tell me why secession is such a bad idea. Aside from the fact that the federal government likes to shoot people who want out from under its thumb, that is.
Laws? We don neeed no stinkiin laws!
Homeland Security will conduct business as though a law has been passed when it wasn’t. The Jackbooted thugs don’t care about the law.
So if they can pick and choose which laws they want to enforce, can we pick and choose the ones we want to obey?
Man, I could sure think of a lot of laws I'd love to ignore!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I hate to say it, but there are also more than a few Republican administrations who so greased the skids for the illegals to pour in here at will, that it’s even likely many of the illegals didn’t even know it was against the law. Heck, there was non-existant push back from us!
Now in this perilous era, decades later, there are two extreme camps: Obama’s suicidal open borders crowd, and the throw out the babies with the bath water crowd. There are now two or more generations who know no country but this one, and while the current abuses found in the bath water need to go, it will never fly for conservatives to radically dump all mercy against all old timers, whose kids are now in college.
Giving the boot, taken to an extreme, is a clear and present loser, just as blanket amnesty and lax enforcement is a huge loser.
Ping!
Nice moderate, non-judgmental words with no solutions is what has gotten it to this stage. You do realize that at some point the vast majority of your fellow citizens will extract some form of revenge for this lawlessness. Maybe that is the goal?
I believe you’re on the mark.
“...extract some form of revenge for this lawlessness.” ===
No question that our decades long past and present milquetoast rhetoric and non-existant border enforcement absolutely spawned lawlessness, which is now become fertile ground for the militant marxists and the militant entitlement thugs who are harrumphing in the streets of LA for example.
The rest of America had better wake up, and Republicans better walk into their various and sundry campaigns for president with a kick butt plan of redress of grievances on this issue, which is festering especially in the border states.
Translation:
Miss Napolitano said she will absolutely unilaterally ignore deportations laws for broad groups of illegal immigrants because she has nothing but contempt for the Constitution and the law.
Incompetanto once again refusing to enforce the law of the United States.
Exactly...She and Holder are two of a kind and should both be shown the door.
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