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CRUZ or LOSE!
Posted on 07/22/2015 7:53:28 AM PDT by VinL
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration policy on Tuesday, Sen. Ted Cruz questioned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Sarah Saldana about the number of "criminal illegal aliens" released by the federal government. Saldana tried to justify the release of thousands of convicted criminal illegal aliens when Cruz confronted her with the statistics.
"193 murderers with homicide convictions. 426 people with sexual assault convictions. 16,000 criminal illegal aliens with drunk driving convictions," released in 2014 instead of being deported or undergoing criminal proceedings.
Director Saldana claims she read the figures for the wrong year, but Cruz shuts her down: "I want to know that your testimony here, on how many criminals ICE released in 2013, you were off by a factor of three. You said 30,000. The correct answer is 104,000. There were 68,000 criminal illegal aliens that ICE declined to begin deportation proceedings against...
You are omitting the 68,000 criminal illegal aliens that ICE did not begin deportation proceedings against at all. You've got to add both of those together, it is over 100,000."
CRUZ: In the year 2014, how many criminal illegal aliens did the Obama administration release?
SALDANA: In 2014 it was a little over 30,000.
CRUZ: How many murderers?
SALDANA: Sir, I can't remember the number right now, but I know we had the statistic that was said earlier... but I can't provide you the exact number..."
CRUZ: How many rapists?
SALDANA: Umm. I am not sure right now.
CRUZ: How many drunk drivers?
Yesterday, how many murderers with the Obama administration release?
SALDANA: I can't answer that question. I want the American people to know and understand our job (snip)
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The question that needs to asked is, “Just how many Americans is Obama going to allow to be killed before he retracts his border policy?”
Was it ICE that denied asylum to the Christian German family who wanted to home-school their children?
Ted Cruz Ping! These aliens are doing precisely what the progressives want them to do.
A good question would be: How many criminals are you going to release tomorrow? Next week? Next Month?
I have a deep gut theory that Cruz’s meeting with Trump was about the illegals.
A BETTER question would be “Why, and by whose authority, are YOU *NOT* enforcing the existing immigration/deportation Laws?”
I don’t expect Congress, even Cruz, to rock that boat...
Sure looking like it will come down to those two.
“Sure looking like it will come down to those two”.
It would certainly be the best thing to happen to this country in a long, long, while.
Obama plans to write up an "Executive Action" on that. Again, going around Congress and the American people.
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