Posted on 06/25/2019 7:03:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is betraying Americans and her constitutional duties by denouncing the police enforcement of Congress’ immigration laws and judges’ deportation decisions, say immigration reformers.
“In terms of interior enforce[ment], what is the purpose? What is the point?” Pelosi said June 25, just after her June 22 statement that the President’s promised enforcement of judges’ deportation orders is a “brutal action which will tear families apart and inject terror into our communities.”
Pelosi’s comment is shocking, said Andrew Arthur, a former immigration judge who now works with the Center for Immigration Studies. “It undermines the rule of law in the U.S., it encourages people to enter the country illegally because they will be able to remain permanently without removal,” he said, adding:
Quite frankly, can you imagine any other context, such as parking tickets or speeding tickets would you see a politician say ‘What’s the point of enforcing the law? It is almost incomprehensible … What other laws should they ignore? Should we stop giving parking tickets in handicapped zones? Or blocking hydrants? Should we not enforce wage-and-hour law, or health-and-safety rules?
President Donald Trump promised and then delayed the small-scale deportation effort following leaks which identified the cities where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials planned to focus their deportation efforts. The few hundred people targeted for the planned operation are part of the 1 million illegals who have already exhausted their legal appeals and have been ordered home by immigration judges, said Arthur. “They’ve received their full measure of due process, and the only thing they are waiting for is to be removed from the United States,” he said.
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If we can’t even remove those who have had their day in court and have been ordered deported, we have lost the rule of law and our country.
“In terms of interior enforce[ment], what is the purpose? What is the point?”
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Rule of law.
Or not.
That is the question and the point.
If fraudulently documented foreigners are immune to our laws, why should citizens follow any?
What difference does it make?
What difference does it make?
How can our country function like this. Something has to break, it has to be either Trump policies or Pelosi policies in charge, this cannot continue! Abraham Lincoln said that a house divided cannot stand, and so 160 years later, here we are again.
This is as existential a threat as the country has faced since secession.
We either restore the rule of law and remove the interlopers or we lose our country.
The laws that protect Democratic Congress members should only be enforced equally with those that protect the rest of us. Equal protection.
I am really tired of this two tiered justice, where millions can scoff at the law, yet the rest of us will pay a severe price for any infraction. The Dems and their sanctuaries have created a criminal class this is absolutely immune to prosecution. There is no rule of law when it comes to their political power.
“...How can our country function like this. Something has to break..”
Agreed. We’re in a cold civil war, and right now, it wouldn’t take much for it to go full hot in many areas. And when, not if, it does, God help us as there’ll be no prisoners.
Our civil society is near the tipping point.
>>> the President’s promised enforcement of judges’ deportation orders is a “brutal action which will tear families apart and inject terror into our communities.”<<<
The democrat party is at war with We the Citizens.
The Democrats do not care about anything or anybody but power and money. If they succeed, eventually even their fast stores of wealth will not protect them from the mobs that support them.
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