they just needed to buy a few more thousand beds which would cost $200-1,000 each..
Posted on 07/10/2014 6:20:50 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
for seizing lawmakers' cell phones at illegal immigrant detention centers to stop them taking photos
A visibly angry Sen. John McCain grilled the head of America's border patrol on Wednesday over a policy that limits what members of Congress can do at detention facilities where the government is holding thousands of illegal immigrant children.
'I have never seen anything like your instructions, signed by your name. ... Are you telling me that [when] I visit a detention facility, that I can't bring a cell phone with me?' the Republican asked.
'Are you saying that? ... I am not allowed to take photographs?'
'I want it fixed immediately! Understand?' McCain boomed at Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske.
The policy, called an 'Interim Protocol for Visitation and Tours,' requires all visitors to turn over their phones and restricts contact with the detained children and staff members.
McCain ripped into Kerlikowske for applying the rules to him even though the Nogales, Arizona facility is in the state he represents.
'People from Arizona elected me, and I'm not supposed to even carry a cell phone with me?' he demanded. 'Mister, you have overstepped your responsibilities and your authority.'
'I want those instructions revoked, as far as members of Congress are concerned, and I want it done today.'...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Gee McCain, after all you did for your friends across the aisle. They just aren’t into you.
they just needed to buy a few more thousand beds which would cost $200-1,000 each..
FUJM!!!!!
BILLIONS for the illegal aliens
Nothing for our troops and veterans...
Did his aides forget to tell him he lost in 2008?
Why is the old fart angry at the Border patrol Chief? The man is following orders from Jeh Johnson and Obama. He is probably being threatened too.
Give ‘em some lollipops John. Maybe they’ll let you bring your cell phone in then.
No, his greatest sin was keeping the investigation of POW’s from proceeding to allow on the ground collection of evidence.
Why do I keep thinking about Ned Beatty and Mark Walberg?
Exactly.
i wish john had the same outraged fervor for the little peon citizens he claims to represent.
he’s just pissed b/c the rules apply to him personally. not that regular folks ‘can’t take pics.
It’s like frickin’ North Korea.
if only McCain would talk so tough to Obama.....sheeyah as if...
True, although i expect we would be in a couple more foreign wars by now. Certainly one of some sort with Russia.
But Juan doesn’t seem bothered by the wide open border and engraved invitations from Obama that caused this mass invasions of illegals. And he promised us he’d “secure the border first” in 2008 and again in 2010 during his two most recent campaigns.
But not a word about securing the border first since.
I'm not so sure. First, understand that Palin would be reduced to attending funerals. McCain is not the sort to delegate power to anybody.
Second, understand that a McCain presidency coupled to a Democrat majority Congress probably would've gotten the 'Rats everything they wanted. A GOP minority with a Republican president in league with the majority would've been totally useless as an opposition party.
Further, McCain is just temperamentally unsuited to the role of President. He's an authoritarian with a bad temper -- and generally worse judgment. What was the last war he urged we stay out of, for example?
He is also the author of McCain-Feingold -- about which he remarked, "Given a choice between free speech and good government, I'll take good government every time". "Good government" as defined by ...whom? And, of course, amnesty is his Holy Grail. The man has no more respect for the Constitution than Obama.
That said, I voted for him. But I felt dirty when I did so. 2008 was a choice between a disaster and a catastrophe.
Really? Care to explain your logic?
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