Posted on 03/17/2017 11:46:39 AM PDT by markomalley
Latino Democrats in the House complained about Homeland Security Secretary Mike Kelly on Friday for being insensitive and unresponsive to their complaints about the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency's pursuit of illegal aliens.
"He was not familiar with some areas of the law that we had questions about," said Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Calif., after Kelly met with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. "He reacted poorly to some of the questions that were asked of him. He did attempt to answer certain questions in a very thoughtful way, but still, many, many questions remain.
"And we need to know if ICE agents are not following the policies and the procedures … that there is some oversight of that and a correction of that because we believe there are violations that are occurring," Sanchez said. She was reacting to reports that ICE agents are entering "sensitive locations" such as hospitals and churches to pick up illegal immigrants for deportation.
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chairwoman Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M., said Kelly was "very dismissive" about claims that ICE agents are acting improperly.
Grisham said she felt that Kelly believes the caucus is only concerned about immigrant communities, "based on the demeanor of Secretary Kelly in that meeting and what I thought was a lack of respect and disregard for many members of Congress."
"We are representing that entire community to get to the truth and get to an environment where there are fair, productive policies," she said. "Because when you negatively impact due process for one, you have negatively impacted due process for all."
Sanchez said that neither ICE nor DHS has answered lawmakers' written questions.
ICE and DHS have "not even [sent] a form letter saying: "We've received your inquiry,'" in response to letters directed to the agencies from Hispanic Caucus members, Sanchez said.
"We have never seen that level of complete ignoring of members of Congress' inquiry," Sanchez said about her experience with both Democratic and Republican administrations. "To not even get a response…we feel we are sending letters into a black hole."
Kelly finally met with the caucus on Friday after canceling several times.
"I don't know what they're afraid of; we're very nice people," Sanchez said.
Memo to dems: GFYs
That official seal is mean spirited.
Welcome to the world of being a complete, total, powerless minority party, Chuck and Nancy.
We know democrats hate America. They don’t want immigrants to assimilate.
NOW DEMOCRATS WANT TO FOLLOW IMMIGRATION LAW?
shut the f*ck up
This was the same DHS which “ferried” illegals for 2 months straight from the border to cities which was supposed to help Hitlery right before the election. To Dems they were doing their “job” but now...
Good.
Hey Sanchez, Republicans won or did you forget.
This is Cong Luis Gutierrez in the good ol' days......stupidly thinking he controlled Republicans.
Cong Luis Gutierrez (Dimwit-ILL) also threatened Republicans at a (gag) La Raza conference. Gutierrez vengefully threatened Republicans---intimating hate-filled latinos would make sure they never win another presidency.
(waiting for hysterical laugher to die down)
I guess La Raza Luis is drowning his sorrows over the Repub wins in tequila shots.
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TIT FOR TAT SENORA: At the La Raza conference in Cali (predated 2014 midterms), La Raza President, and chief America hater, Janet Murguia, told attendees that it sickened her to hear Americans chanting "USA." She accused those protesting against border-jumpers of having "cloaked their hatred in patriotism" by shouting "'USA! USA!' again and again." "It made me angry," she said. "In fact, I was outraged."
Murguia unequivocally asserted that the road to the White House for Republicans goes through the Latino community and La Raza. She also said Republicans who want to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program will not get Hispanic votes.
(waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)
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Going into 2014 midterms, taking cues from their Central American handlers, organized latino pressure groups were heaping scorn upon those opposed to amnesty.
Latino pressure groups threatened Republicans with extinction, they rallied around Democrats---saying "the latino vote was going to destroy Republicans."
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REALITY CHECK--AMNESTY-SUCKING DEMOCRATS DROWNED IN A SEA OF RED ---2014 MIDTERM results evidenced not a single state, local or political entity claiming victory w/ latino votes.
Midterm Map courtesy of http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/here-s-what-a-republican-takeover-looks-likes-20141105
Undecided races at time of publication also went Republican. 2014 was a tsunami that submerged AMNESTY-SUCKING DEMOCRATS in waves of defeat. Democrats who ran on amnesty were soundly defeated. Fox's Britt Hume said the latino vote was not even a factor. Republicans won an historic one-for-the books election....winning from sea to shining sea.
Hey, Latino Democrats: Talk to the hand.
The only question that is pertinent is, is this individual in the country illegally?
If yes, deportation is the law.
Rep.linda Sanchez>>>>> good grief, she is still in office? isn’t she the one with the sister in office too? Last name isn’t sanchez, but they changed it?
“Elections have consequences”.
Tough crap.
Slash the federal workforce and gub mint.
Return ALL illegals from whence the came.
By what metric do these idiots come to believe they are charged with ‘representing’ illegal aliens?
IOW...your complaints mean nothing!
Well gee folks, maybe your questions are stupid and a waste of time, and he really doesn’t care about them because he has a job to do.
Dear RATs/LIBs: you lost. You are losers. No one gives a rat’s a** what you think about anything. No one.
Dear Linda, the democrats are taking so long to confirm me and other republicans, I can not get to your questions until summer recess. If you want to set up a meeting then, please contact my office.
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