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The migrants from Central Americasurging across the border are “family members” and do not present a danger to the U.S., Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske said today. “These are family members, these are not gang members, these are not dangerous individuals,” Kerlikowske told ABC News’ Jim Avila in an exclusive interview, his first since the crisis began. “I think that we all need to work through this problem together as Americans.” When asked if he had enough agents, Kerlikowske said he did. “[Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson] has just deployed an additional 150 agents to the Rio Grande...

President Barack Obama's drug czar toed a strict line on marijuana Wednesday, saying federal laws will prevail regardless of state-level efforts to legalize pot. Gil Kerlikowske said enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 -- which ranks marijuana as a Schedule One drug alongside heroin, LSD and ecstasy -- remains in the hands of the US Department of Justice. "No state, no executive can nullify a statute that has been passed by Congress," the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy told a National Press Club luncheon. "Let's be clear: law enforcement officers take an...

(CNSNews.com) – Gil Kerlikowske, the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and former Seattle Police Chief, would not say how the spotty security along the southwest border affects his office’s effort to control the flow of illegal drugs into the United States. VIDEO 28 seconds In his position, according to the White House Drug Policy’s Web site, Kerlikowske “coordinates all aspects of Federal drug control programs and implementation of the President's National Drug Control Strategy.” After an event at the National Press Club on Tuesday, CNSNews.com asked Kerlikowske, “According to Border Patrol, only 873...

Obama Rolls Out the Next Plank in the Soros Manifesto By Joy Tiz Thursday, May 14, 2009 As the Obama administration’s assault on the nation continues with nationalized Soros Care, including “involuntary euthanasia”, Obama’s drug czar has announced the end of the war on drugs. Former Seattle police chief, Gil Kerlikowske, will be following the Soros administration’s policy of treating drug abuse as a public health issue rather than a law enforcement matter. Joseph Califano, former Health and Human Services Secretary under Jimmy Carter has called Soros the “Daddy Warbucks of drug legalization”. Unrepentant Nazi collaborator, George Soros has donated...

Obama's newly nominated "drug czar" is Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske. And just like a real czar, the drug czar, whose formal title is director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, can destroy rights instantly, and he can set the stage for additional harm. Before the dark days of the Clinton administration, few federal government officials had done more to damage Second Amendment rights than William Bennett, the so-called "drug czar" under President George H.W. Bush. In March 1989, Bennett set off a national panic by pushing the first Bush administration to ban the import of so-called "assault...

Toogood Reports [Wednesday, April 16, 2003; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ Weeks before Saddam Hussein was toppled — in person and symbolically, in the form of statues — the New York Times started its campaign for the postwar defeat of the American military. Columnists Nicholas Kristof and Thomas Friedman, and the Times' editorial writers, insisted that virtually immediately after victory, America would have to turn over control to the democratic will of the Iraqi people, and get out of the country. Our rivals and enemies (take your pick) in France, Germany, and Russia, have informed us that the U.S. enjoys neither...