Posted on 02/25/2009 6:15:00 PM PST by CedarDave
Immigration agents this week conducted their first work-site raid since President Barack Obama took office, but it was news to their boss, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who on Wednesday ordered a review of the action.
Workplace raids involving the arrests of hundreds of illegal immigrants at a time became almost routine in the last years of the Bush administration, but Napolitano's response to Tuesday's raid at a Bellingham, Wash., manufacturing plant highlighted the Obama administration's much different approach to a hot-button issue.
Napolitano told lawmakers during a hearing in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday that she did not know about the raid before it happened and was briefed on it early Wednesday morning. She has asked U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which arrested 28 illegal immigrants in the raid, for answers.
"I want to get to the bottom of this as well," she said. She said work-site enforcement needs to be focused on the employers.
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Words escape me...
This ol’gal is going to be a real problem. Odds are good she’s the first of Obama’s cabinet officers to be sent to prison.
sent to prison by whom? For what?
how many agents will go to jail?
we know the illegals will get apologies and standing to sue, the US will plead guilty. precedent
She’s a real Bag ‘O Crap. I’m glad she is gone from Arizona but I’m not happy that she was given the Homeland Security job. She’s worthless.
Heavens to Mergatroid. This administration is not only the political equivalent of Hurricane Katrina but it is also the political equivalent of the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina.
The employers should be jailed too.
Janet “Free-Pass Amnesty” Napolitano. She hasn’t changed one bit.
My words are all four letter ones; well one has five.
She has to put all that behind her to run a major cabinet level operation.
The usual history has been that the cabinet officer had a corrupt relationship with someone the federal cops wanted to bust.
She'll quickly find Presidents don't support cabinet officers who "take".
employers are a huge part of the problem and they should be strung up but does that mean we don’t arrest and deport illegals?
Now ya’ll know why a cheer went up around Arizona when we packed her off to DC... got rid of her and our new governor and republican legislators settled our budget in a matter of hours ..
I hope you are right but O’s gang is out of control.
She is in no way related to Andrew, eh?
She is from AZ. The raid was in Washington state.
I'd suppose she knows Grigoire and Patty Murray pretty well wouldn't you?
---Ya Think?
2 Gang members gave the tip... Huh?
AZ needs 10th amendment, ditch McCain and probably encourage a ammunition company to set up a factory in AZ. AZ and a few other red states may become the backbone of America.
I think you are wrong. Bambi doesn’t want to defend our borders, wants to go for total amnesty, and so does Napolitano.
Yes, employers will be prosecuted, for breaking laws. The employed illegal aliens likely will be ignored.
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