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President Obama’s appointment of longtime open-borders advocate Janet Napolitano as Homeland Security Secretary, to oversee the defense of this nation’s borders, is every bit as absurd as the insane Roman emperor Caligula bestowing the title of consul on his favorite horse, Incitatus.
In making their laughable appointments, both Obama and Caligula showed not only incredible arrogance, but their absolute contempt for the public they were charged with protecting.
Last month Janet Napolitano stated publicly what most of us already knew…The Obama administration is planning another effort to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. In a press conference, Napolitano argued how the country would benefit from placing illegal aliens "on a pathway to being legal."
In less than a year as head of the DHS, Janet Napolitano has refused much-needed funds for her department, leveled unfounded accusations at veterans, accused conservatives of being potential terrorists, stopped worksite immigration enforcement, weakened the highly effective 287g program, and is now busy promoting amnesty for illegal aliens.
In October, the Department of Homeland Security admitted that only 894 miles of this country’s 8,607 miles of America’s land borders, are actually being protected. The announcement came in the agency’s 2009 Performance Report.
During an April 2009 CNN interview, the woman charged with enforcing immigration laws, stated: “crossing the border [illegally] is not a crime per se..”
In addition to those dubious acts, during one of her visits to Capitol Hill, Napolitano downplayed the growing threat from the narco-state to our south. She was there in part, to explain why she had denied Texas Governor Rick Perry’s request for 1,000 federal troops to help protect his state’s long and dangerous border with Mexico.
Napolitano claimed that the violence posed by the drug cartels has yet to affect this country. She took this stance, despite the FBI report which claims that Mexican drug cartels are now operating in 230 U.S. cities.
In fact, within days of her sugar-coated testimony. Attorney General Eric Holder announced: “International drug trafficking organizations pose a sustained, serious threat to the safety and security of our communities. We can provide our communities the safety and the security that they deserve only by confronting these dangerous cartels head-on without reservation.”
Holder’s statement was made during a press conference following a February 2009 nationwide raid, which netted 750 drug cartel operatives.
Regardless of Napolitano’s political beliefs and her apparent sympathy for those who lack respect for our laws and enter this country illegally, the Homeland Security Secretary has the responsibility of securing our borders and removing criminal aliens from our communities…The same criminal aliens who kill our neighbors in horrific drunk driving accidents, who poison our fellow citizens with drugs such as methamphetamine (80-90 percent now coming from Mexico), and who all too often molest our children.
It is not however, the job of the Homeland Security Secretary to lobby for citizenship for this nation’s illegal alien population.
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Excellent piece by Dave Gibson. He left out two criminal things illegal aliens do--murder 12 Americans each day nationwide and commit document fraud sometimes even before breaking into the U.S. by purchasing stolen or fraudulent U.S. ID.
Janet Napolitano is a man made disaster. Those in AZ are glad to be rid of her. 3 more years and she's out of here! She, like Hillary will need to find a new state, AZ won't let her back in.
All the Propositions and laws Arizona put in place to deal with the illegal alien invasion, in spite of Nappy, would be totally nullified under Benedict Arnold Gutierrez's bill.
“crossing the border [illegally] is not a crime per se..”
There are CIVIL and CRIMINAL violations of law. In making the statement above, DHS secretary Napolitano is acknoledging that crossing the border without authorization is in fact a CIVIL (not CRIMINAL) violation of law.
"While an illegal alien is subject to deportation, that person's ongoing presence in the United States in and of itself is not a crime, unless that person had been previously deported and regained illegal entry into this country."
www.kscourts.org/Cases-and-Opinions/opinions/ctapp/2007/20070817/96613.htm
Former U.S. Attorney for the southern district of New York, Rudy Giuliani;
"In fact, when you throw an immigrant out of the country, it's not a criminal proceeding. It's a civil proceeding."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDo-ZVK4dc0&eurl
New Jersey Governor and former U.S. Attorney the District of New Jersey Christopher Christie;
"Being in this country without proper documentation is not a crime," Christie told more than 60 residents and town officials.
"The whole phrase of 'illegal immigrant' connotes that the person, by just being here, is committing a crime."
Being undocumented may be a civil wrong, but it's not a criminal act, Christie said.
"Don't let people make you believe that that's a crime that the U.S. Attorney's Office should be doing something about," he added of entering the country illegally. "It is not."
www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/04/immigrants_and_their_advocates.html
Illegals "kill 25 Americans every single day"
U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) claimed in May 2006, in at least two speeches and a press release that illegal immigrants murder 12 Americans each day and kill 13 each day as a result of drunken driving accidents, for a total of 25 deaths per
www.house.gov/apps/list/hearing/ia05_king/col_20060505_bite.html
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) misleadingly "extrapolated" figures from an April 2005 Government Accountability Office (GAO) study to formulate the questionable statistic regarding the number of deaths caused by illegal immigrants, the GAO report itself makes no such claim.
www.gao.gov/new.items/d05337r.pdf
blogs.chron.com/bluebayou/2006/11/fanning_the_immigration_flames.html
colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200609270005
www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=415
Crossing the border illegally certainly is a crime, carrying possible jail time as well as civil fines.
Search 8 U.S.C. § 1325 : US Code - Section 1325: Improper entry by alien
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(a) Improper time or place; avoidance of examination or inspection;
misrepresentation and concealment of facts
Any alien who (1) enters or attempts to enter the United States
at any time or place other than as designated by immigration
officers, or (2) eludes examination or inspection by immigration
officers, or (3) attempts to enter or obtains entry to the United
States by a willfully false or misleading representation or the
willful concealment of a material fact, shall, for the first
commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18 or
imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both, and, for a subsequent
commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18, or
imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.
(b) Improper time or place; civil penalties
could mestizos perhaps speak English? I can't stand the way they yap in crappy talk!
Every illegal alien who is working, or has worked in the Unites States has committed one or more crimes, and some of these crimes are felonies. Among the crimes that illegal aliens have committed by working here are ID theft, document fraud, Social Security fraud, employment "I-9 Form" fraud, income tax evasion, and conspiracy to violate immigration laws. Many illegal aliens have also committed welfare fraud and food stamp fraud.
Human Being says:
"Former U.S. Attorney for the southern district of New York, Rudy Giuliani;
"In fact, when you throw an immigrant out of the country, it's not a criminal proceeding. It's a civil proceeding.""
Except when you throw the immigrant out of the country as part of the punishment for having committed a crime here, which happens quite often with immigrants living in the United States.
Maybe you should call Lou Dobbs to be part of this discussion. The last I heard it was the congress that is supposed to make laws, not the president. Maybe we should blame the Mexicans for everything. They are after all different, and that is scary.
Okieoneshinobi says:
"Maybe we should blame the Mexicans for everything. They are after all different, and that is scary."
No, we don't need to blame Mexicans for everything. How about if we just blame Mexicans for the actual problems that Mexicans cause, which includes entering the United States illegally and violating other laws after they arrive here.
Unfortunately, so many Americans have become so apathetic, and so cowardly, that illegal aliens and their enablers are calling all of the shots. Citizens stand around, looking at each other,with a woe is me attitude, instead of actively eliminating every single representative that enables this crap to go on. The Democrat Party is a disaster and Rino republicans need to work at McDonalds. Period.
This dilution of American culture by mass wholesale importing of the mongrel hordes is all part of the plan for WorldGovernment. Lets start working on the ISSUES by contacting local, state and national REPs and making our voices heard, TODAY!
You can give Nappy credit for just one thing: she makes Michael Chertoff [separated at birth from Howdy Doody!] look good! No, certainly not physically, but Doody's long-lost twin at least arrested and deported a handful of illegals. Nappy doesn't just let 'em walk; she gives 'em WORK PERMITS, too - INSTANT AMNESTY!
The vast majority of Mexican illegals [that is, Mexican nationals whose presence within the United States is unauthorized] have engaged in a massive criminal conspiracy to evade numerous immigration and labor laws before they jump the border. They contract with "coyotes" whose very business is the violation of US law. They hide out in "safe houses" awaiting clandestine transportation within the territory of the United States. They often have pre-arrange housing with family members who deliberately plan to aid and abet an illegal alien. Criminal enterprises extend them jobs, and link up with document counterfeiting operations to conceal those numerous crimes. Please, don't try to tell me they're just innocent, unwitting victims in this racket...they know what they're doing but they break the law anyway.
These greasy little mongrels have been programmed by their controlled press to believe they are going to "takeover" and be "rich". This will cause a fractured society and bring us to socialism.
All these politicians try to make us feel sorry for these illegals. I could care less, let them go through the immigration process like my ancestors. I feel sorry for the police that have to deal with all the politics to try to get these illegals out of the country.
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