Posted on 04/18/2015 11:50:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
California’s chief law officer, Attorney General Kamala Harris, declared this week, “an undocumented immigrant is not a criminal,” a statement in direct contradiction to federal law.
Illegally entering and remaining in the country is a federal crime. By stating that those who illegally enter or remain in the United States are not in violation of law is simply incorrect. However, many of these “undocumented immigrants” are not being prosecuted under the current administration.
Last November, President Obama declared effective amnesty for an estimated five million illegally present aliens. Since then, Representative Luis Gutierrez has traveled the country, partnering with fellow ‘immigration reform,’ Democrat legislators and activists, not advocating for citizens but for those illegally present within the U.S.
It does seem that Harris, declared candidate for the U.S. Senate, is implying in her words that these foreign nationals are not persistent criminals as she told KCAL 9, “I’m a career prosecutor. I’ve personally prosecuted everything from low-level offenses to homicides. Unfortunately, I know what crime looks like. I know what a criminal looks like who’s committing a crime. An undocumented immigrant is not a criminal.”(continued)
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Kamala is one sick woman. She obviously does not know what crime “looks like”.
Let’s say they have amnesty for crimes committed before his highness’s illegal declaration...but if they continue to break the law, phony IDS, identity theft, bank fraud, tax evasion, false documentation, have they not broken existing laws post amnesty, and therefore are criminals again...
An illegal alien must first commit an illegal act to be considered a criminal.
Got it Kammy.
Years ago we all knew where they were going with this.
Kamala sounds like she may have some serious mental issues. She’s not very bright either. She definitely doesn’t know much about the law..
“Undocumented immigrant”.
The problem with this national debate is that the Democrats (and quite a few Republicrats) are living in Wonderland, while the rest of us insist, “We can’t begin to address the matter if you persist in using ‘Jabberwocky’ nonsense as your talking points.
Aliens in this country in violation of our immigration laws are by definition “illegal aliens”.
“The system is broken.” Here they go again .....
If so, they broke it.
are they violating the law Kamala?
Illegal Immigrants are no Criminals?
I suppose that’s a difference of opinion then. BUT! I would like to make an observation here... in my lifetime I have seen several examples of over-reaching law that had more than just the obvious effects of their intent. They also had MAJOR unintended effects. The biggest one was the nationwide 55 mph speed limit that was put into effect to ‘reduce’ gasoline usage by increasing miles per gallon by reducing speed of the vehicles at the time.
Perhaps it did that for a short time, I propose that what it really did was change the thinking of the entirety of the population into thinking that the law can be ignored for the most part unless directly under the supervision of the police. That change in thinking started to spread into other aspects of our nation and the citizens reaction to ‘laws’. Every one of us today breaks a law several times a day, sometimes on purpose since we don’t agree with the ‘law’. Sometimes because of ignorance of the law.
Illegal immigrants are in many ways much, much worse than a law like the 55 MPH speed limit. They show, just by their very existence, that the laws of the United States are not for them as they are above them. They are shadows and like shadows disappear when the light is shown on them and reappear immediately when it is removed.
How soon, (not very), will it be before the rest of the populace, citizens and non-citizens, decide that the nation of laws, where all are equal, is no longer there? And what we see of that former lawful framework that came to be by the ‘consent of the governed’ is now a rotten core of a building with just the facade waiting to fall down under the next windstorm or shaking of the earth it’s rotten foundation rests upon?
kamala harris let me guess
Attorney General Kamala Harris, declared this week, “an undocumented immigrant is not a criminal,”
Really?
Did they ILLEGALLY cross our border?
Are they ILLEGALLY hiding in our country contrary to our laws?
Since when are illegal action in violation of laws not a criminal issue?
You beat me by five years: I left in 1979.
So that means a drug dealer is an "undocumented pharmacist"?
Regards,
GtG
I disagree w Kamala
Not only are they criminals they are invaders
Naw, it's all the fault of "White Privilege". The Marxist Progressives in charge of Kalifornia will continue their self destructive insanity like a swarm of locusts until there is nothing left to loot. Then they will move on to your neighborhood. So on and so forth until everything is gone. Then they will eat themselves. As explained in a great previous article; By achieving their goals the progressives invariably destroy themselves in the end.
This is a no brainer.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand
It’s really something when the AG of a large state doesn’t understand (and accept) that an “undocumented immigrant” is — in fact — an “illegal alien”. .... However, if you can eliminated the word “illegal”, then the soft-hearted (and soft-headed) Kammy doesn’t need to do her job ... to enforce the law.
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