Posted on 02/12/2016 5:25:15 AM PST by Kaslin
Last year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Sarah Saldana said that her department did not have adequate resources to deal with the consequences of illegal immigration. Now, senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz is joining his colleague Sen. Jeff Sessions in introducing a bill to help the agency enforce our laws. Here's how the ICE Agent Support Act of 2016 would help ensure justice is served, according to a new Cruz press release:
This legislation would provide ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations with dedicated, substantial revenue from statutory fines and penalties for illegal aliens that are not currently being enforced by the Obama administration, but would generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue each year. The relevant statutory provisions call for fines and civil penalties for refusing to leave the United States after being ordered or agreeing to do so, using false documents, or engaging in marriage fraud.
These funds, Cruz and Sessions wrote, would be used by ICE to track, identify and detain criminal immigrants, and purchase weapons and vehicles necessary for the agency to do its job.
ICE came under fire last year following the tragic death of Kate Steinle. Steinle was killed by an illegal immigrant in San Francisco over the summer who had no business being in the country. He had been deported five times. Her family sued ICE after her death, along with the city sheriff and the Bureau of Land Management, insisting they should have identified and removed her murderer long before he pulled the trigger.
Before introducing the ICE Agent Support Act, Cruz promoted Kate's Law, which inflicts punishment on anyone who reenters the country illegally. The common sense legislation is popular with Americans. Yet, Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid did everything he could to block it.
Kate's Law, coupled with the ICE Agent Support Act, are just a couple concrete steps to guarantee that these agents have the resources necessary to protect future Kate Steinles.
I think this is a responsible move by Ted to call the bluff, but I am also entirely certain that even if they get the money, it would be diverted by direction from Obama to CBPE to facilitate more illegals entering this country. We simply cannot give these people ANY money as long as they are under Obama's executive control
Let’s see him get it passed
That ... Is leadership
Let's see him re-introduce the bill after Trump's inauguration, when it might do some good.
We usually call this stuff “Kabuki Theater”.
He knows it isnt going anywhere, but he will use the senate process just to then go and act like a martyr on the campaign trail.
How about staying in DC and, you know, actually lobbying to get your bill passed if you are really serious?
Excellent point
Apparently Trump supporters think Jeff Sessions is an ineffective showboater on the subject of illegal immigration.
We will remember that.
Trump and his supporters want to destroy conseratives. Why?
“Let’s see him get it passed
That ... Is leadership”
With 45 Rats in the Senate, it doesn’t get passed. More importantly, how many RINO’s will vote for it?
Because they’re not conservative.
Jeff Sessions isnt spending most of his time running for president. He’s actually doing the job Alabama is paying him to do.
But you just said Jeff Session’s bill to curb illegal immigration is ineffective showboating.
Strange...
“Cruz Introduces Bill To Give ICE Agents More Resources”
my reply:
“We usually call this stuff “Kabuki Theater”.
He knows it isnt going anywhere, but he will use the senate process just to then go and act like a martyr on the campaign trail.
How about staying in DC and, you know, actually lobbying to get your bill passed if you are really serious?”
Logic fail:
“But you just said Jeff Session’s bill to curb illegal immigration is ineffective showboating.”
Does that mean everyone should just lay down and quit? What's your point?
How about staying in DC and, you know, actually lobbying to get your bill passed if you are really serious?
Has anything gone anywhere when Obama is standing in the way with the veto pen?
If the bill isn't going anywhere, why not campaign to get the Democrats out of the White House instead of going to DC and tilting at windmills?
It is obvious no matter what he does, you won't agree with it.
So when the GOP passe a repeal of Obamacare just a few weeks ago, where you crowing about how great it was that they did it, or were you like most of us, rolling your eyes and calling it “kabuki theater”?
Should we vote to return the entire GOP congress as is because they “tried”?
At least in that case it actually got out of the Senate.
Stupid bill since the DiC has told them to stand down.
How about a bill that undoes the DiC executive orders????
Hey “Mr. Logician”. Sessions and Cruz co-sponsored the the bill. If you say the bill is Kabuki Theater, you are lumping Sessions in with Cruz. There is no way around it. You think Sessions and Cruz are ineffective show-boaters on illegal immigration.
Trump supporters attempt to destroy conservatives like Jeff Sessions. Why?
Ok, fine. It’s really is SESSION’S bill.
Just, you know, Townhall’s title just couldn’t be bothered to note that, and decided to make it seem like it’s all Cruz.
And if it actually passed, you wont see anyone give Sessions the credit, even though he’s the one in DC tending to it, while Cruz is off somewhere else.
Still is “Kabuki Theater”.
“With 45 Rats in the Senate, it doesn’t get passed. More importantly, how many RINO’s will vote for it?”
SHOULDN’T matter. He should be shaming the Senate, if not Congress and the whole of D.C. for not enforcing existing Law.
He should have McTurtle-scrot’s face plastered on the TV, hemming and hawing when asked “WHY?”.
He stood up to ‘leadership’, why not lead the same again, NOW?
I actually thought it was great. It puts people on the record as to how they voted, and that will be useful by November.
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