[jedward]

“This amendment is actually part of the Homeland Security Funding bill.”

Yep, interesting place, don’t ya think? Shouldn’t be news to Chertoff, he was happy to be in the Amnesty Bill’s photo op.

Mr. Chertoff: Secure my Damn Border or resign your Homeland Security Post!

[gpapa]

It is actually an appropriate place for the amendment since the Homeland Security Funding legislation is an appropriations bill. If the Tancredo amendment in the Senate version of that bill passed it would carry the day. That is why Tancredo chose not to attach it to the House version of the Immigration Reform Act of 2007.

BTW, sanctuary actually does have a legal defintion, i. e., Immunity to arrest afforded by a sanctuary