Chertoff: We can't really enforce laws on illegals

World Net Daily ^ | 7/1/07 | World Net Daily

[captjanaway]

Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff is blasting the U.S. Senate for failing to pass an immigration bill, and claims the federal government doesn't have the ability to enforce laws when it comes to illegals working in America.

"We're going to continue to enforce the law. It's going to be tough," Michael Chertoff said. "We don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a way that's truly effective."

[dragnet2]

So if 10 million Americans suddenly decided not pay income taxes, the government would agree not to enforce the law?

Better yet, if roughly 30 million Americans decided not to pay their taxes because the Federal Government was not doing *their* job to control, secure and protect the borders, would the Federal Government and Chertoff tell us it would just be impractical to round them all up?

[CAWats]

"We're going to continue to enforce the law. It's going to be tough," Michael Chertoff said. "We don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a way that's truly effective."


That's not the way I remember it growing up in the '50s in South Texas.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Fire that Sonofabitch as well.

[Iscool]

"We don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a way that's truly effective."

Sure we do...You're just incompetent...I'm firing you, and your boss...

[restornu]

If the head of Homeland Security says he can't enforce our laws... well... I'm speechless.......

We really don't use all our law enforcement that is available on this project.

So many of these agency have been told hands off so what is Chertoff talking about it being impossible?

All we have to do is organized our different law enforement departments!

Maybe we got Illigals working in the state department and law enforcement ya think?

We have so many surveillance toys, and man power this is a joke to try to sell us this fib!

[Paladin2]

"We don't really have the ability want to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a way that's truly effective."

There, fixed it.

[TommyDale]

"Do you seriously think the voters need to see video of a Republican administration arresting and deporting Hispanics in the middle of the night?"

You mean like the picture here of the Democrat Clinton Administration taking a child at gunpoint?

[CAWats]

He’s a liar.


You forgot the "f" word in front of liar.

[TomGuy]

If we “can’t” enforce the laws now, how are reforms supposed to lead to SUDDEN enforcement?

That was one of the ironies last week. As they got ready to vote on the bill that was going to make 11-50 million eligible for Z-VISAs within 24 hours of their applications, they had to put on hold issuing passports to REAL citizens, because their system was overwhelmed.

[That was part of the intent by design, I think. Overwhelm the system to where all the intended get their Z-VISAs without a whole lot of bother.]

[I see my hands]

They start with a premise that denies the one solution, i.e., round them up and send them home.

12 or 20 million. Can be done.

If those in our charge by our authority won't do the job then the US people must.

[goldfinch]

Chertoff said Senate opponents deprived his department of the ability to ensure stricter enforcement by requiring companies to enter in a system to check their employees' work status.

"That would be the single greatest additional weapon we could use if we're serious about tackling this problem," he said. "I wish we had some of the tools that were left on the floor of the Senate when they abandoned the bill last week, but we will do what we have to do with the resources we have at our disposal."

OK. If that is what Chertoff needed, why not just request Congress pass a law to do that. It would not require a 700 page bill. Let the Congress take an up or down vote on funding this.

In the meantime, how about increasing border security and building the double fence.

And, Chertoff, while you are at it, you might concentrate on deporting some of the day workers...or won't that create enough heart-breaking stories to serve your real purpose...forcing amnesty on the American people.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“We need a President...”

I am sorry this man Bush every had the opportunity to be a candidate for the highest office in the land. The predency deserves much better than this sham. Considering, it is no wonder that Chertoff is a “can’t do” kinda guy.

[lonestar]

If the head of Homeland Security says he can't enforce our laws...

But they were going to enforce new laws???

[anglian]

Hezbollah. The FBI reports that citizens from nations with an al-Qaida presence are learning Spanish and changing their names to make them Hispanic-sounding in order to pose as Latin Americans and cross the border more easily. Hugo Chavez's regime in Caracas has even provided identity documents to nationals of countries that support terrorists; several Pakistanis recently were caught at the border with such fraudulent Venezuelan papers.

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Perhaps most surprising (and alarming) is the increasing evidence that al Qaeda, a Sunni organization, is now cooperating with the Shi'a group Hezbollah, considered to be the most sophisticated terrorist group in the world. Hezbollah, which enjoys backing from Syria and Iran, is based in southern Lebanon and in the lawless "triborder" region of South America, where Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina meet. The group has also maintained a fundraising presence in the United States since the 1980s. According to the CIA's Tenet, however, the group has lately stepped up its U.S. activities and was recently spotted "casing and surveilling American facilities." Although low-level cooperation between al Qaeda and Hezbollah has been evident for some time -- their logistical cooperation was revealed in the trial of al Qaeda operatives involved in the 1998 embassy bombing attacks in east Africa -- the two groups have formed a much closer relationship since al Qaeda was evicted from its base in Afghanistan. Representatives of the two groups have lately met up in Lebanon, Paraguay, and an unidentified African country. According to a report in Israel's Ha'aretz newspaper, Imad Mughniyah, who directs Hezbollah in the triborder area, has also been appointed by Iran to coordinate the group's activities with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

*** - The triborder region of South America has become the world's new Libya, a place where terrorists with widely disparate ideologies -- Marxist Colombian rebels, American white supremacists, Hamas, Hezbollah, and others -- meet to swap tradecraft. Authorities now worry that the more sophisticated groups will invite the American radicals to help them. Moneys raised for terrorist organizations in the United States are often funneled through Latin America, which has also become an important stopover point for operatives entering the United States. Reports that Venezuela's President Hugo Ch_z is allowing Colombian rebels and militant Islamist groups to operate in his country are meanwhile becoming more credible, as are claims that Venezuela's Margarita Island has become a terrorist haven.

The Protean Enemy - July 2003 by Jessica Stern

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/977550/posts

[taxed2death]

If the head of “homeland security” in what is perhaps the worlds last superpower can’t even get a grip on workplace enforcement within our borders then we seriously need to revisit the issue of Iraq where the sacred blood of our warriors is being spilled in an effort to impose some sort of “law” in another far away land.

We might as well pack up all our shit and get the hell out of there.

[Sonora]

He said it, so that’s really the same as the President saying it - wouldn’t this sort of thing automatically prompt a hearing on the hill?

[DCPatriot]

Wow!

Thanks for sharing! /s

[BigFinn]

They didn't and don't have any intention whatsoever in building the fence. We all witnessed what happened when we, the people, rose up in unison and told them NO to Shamnesty. Now we have to do the same thing. Write, fax, email, phone to TELL them to enforce the law and build the fence. I have started already.

The law is the `Secure Borders Act'. The bill is signed. Now go to it!

[TomGuy]

He's shown us clearly he does not care what we think about shamnesty with "see ya at the bill signing".

I would take it back a bit further, even. That morning after the November GOP loses, he gleefully declared that "I finally have a Congress I can work with."

What other President has ever made such a declaration when his party lost both Chambers in a mid-term election?

[i_dont_chat]

I’ve written MY letter to the White House, for the President to replace Chertoff.

Have you written yours?