Posted on 12/02/2015 8:15:16 PM PST by Isara
A tense exchange erupted in fireworks Wednesday between Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief Sarah Saldana during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing focused on the Obama administration's immigration enforcement policies.
In a lengthy exchange Cruz, a Republican presidential candidate, opened his questioning of the ICE director by highlighting the criminal releases made by the Obama administration and pressed Saldana on 918,369 non-detained illegal immigrants in the U.S. that have been ordered removed but remain in the U.S.
Saldana argued that there are "obstacles" to removing illegal immigrants including travel documents and final orders of removal - which Cruz argued was irrelevant to the group he highlighted as they already have final orders.
"We are removing every one we can under the law," she said, arguing that ICE officials would not "turn their backs" on the deportation of a criminal alien that needed to be removed.
Cruz responded that her answer "consisted of non sequiturs."
"I will tell you, I speak over and over again to ICE agents, to border patrol officers, who are demoralized, who are dispirited, by the political leadership of the obama administration that doesn’t let them do their jobs, over and over again," he said.
The Texas lawmaker further pressed the ICE director on the 1,000 criminal aliens the Obama administration released in 2013 who went on to commit further crimes as well as the releases of 6,151 criminal aliens convicted of a sexual offense between FY 2009 and FY 2015. Saldana took issue with Cruz's characterization of the releases.
"Sir, you missed that part of my testimony earlier, before your arrival here, I explained clearly that about two-thirds of the folks who have been released - you keep referring to the Obama administration releasing them - that is really a mischaracterization and is misleading to the public," she said...
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Must be nice having a high paying government job and not have anything to do. ICE needs to be shut down until after Obammie leaves office.
Charge ICE as an accomplice to all illegal immigrant crimes.
Oops. I meant to send the message to Isara.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3367371/posts
Already posted. It’s in the sidebar
Ted Cruz has got heart..
America loves the underdog.
ROCKY ROCKY ROCKY
The titles are not exactly the same. Therefore, there is no hit when I searched it.
Why would you “charge ICE?”
I would bet most of the agents are as frustrated as the rest of the country.
We don’t bash our soldiers when their leaders give them horrible rules of engagement........
Oh, come on Ted, she said they are using smart power. /s
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