YouTube – 5 minutes
April 25, 2013 - For
Immediate Release
Contact: Stephen
Miller, 202.224.4124
Sessions: Napolitano Not
Above The Law
“[the federal judge] said
that the Secretary [of the Department of Homeland Security] doesn’t have the
ability to direct agents not to do what Congress has explicitly required them
to do…
This Secretary has proven
that she’s not willing to have the laws of this country enforced. And has even
been sued by her own law enforcement officers. This is just a dramatic example
of the problems I’ve been hearing from federal law officers. They needed to be
respected, they needed to be affirmed in their duties on a daily basis out
confronting people who are unlawfully here… And they’ve been undermined in
that. And their morale has plummeted. And the Secretary hasn’t even talked to
them…
I’ll tell you who else
hasn’t talked to them, the people who wrote this bill. Chris Crane, the head of
the Association, wrote, called, publically asked the opportunity to participate
in these discussions and at least tell them what the real world is like. But
no, they had the Chamber of Commerce, they had the Ag people, they had certain
union officials, they had La Raza—they’ve all been meeting and talking. But not
the people who are out there struggling every day trying to make sure we have a
lawful system.”
Big Sis: Obama admin can pick which laws to enforce
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/24/Big-Sis-declares-Obama-has-power-to-pick-which-laws-to-enforce-as-immigration-bill-would-grant-admin-more-authority
Breitbart - Matthew Boyle - 4/24/2013
During her testimony on the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano declared that she, President Barack Obama and other political officials at the top of this administration have the authority to decide which laws to enforce, and which ones to ignore.
Napolitano made the declaration in an exchange with Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) when he was questioning her on how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have alleged that political officials in the Obama administration, including her, have blocked them from enforcing the law.Sessions noted that ICE agents’ union president Chris Crane had testified on Monday “that agents are prohibited from enforcing the law and, indeed, the ICE officers have filed a lawsuit [to that effect].”
“I started out as a federal prosecutor in the Department of Justice in 1975,” Sessions said. “I have never heard of a situation in which a group of law officers sued their supervisor and you for blocking them from following the law. They weren’t complaining about pay, benefits, working conditions. They were saying their very oath they took, to enforce the law, is being blocked by rules and regulations and policies established from on high and that this is undermining their ability to do what they’re sworn to do.”
Despite Napolitano’s and the administration’s belief that they can tell law enforcement agents which laws to enforce and which ones to ignore, the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill cedes even more authority away from Congress and gives it to the administration.
In their lines of questioning with Napolitano during Tuesday’s hearing, Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) focused on how the bill cedes authority. In a statement he issued after the hearing indicating he is not satisfied with the bill’s so-called “border security triggers” that are supposedly meant to ensure the border actually gets secured, Cruz said he does not trust the bill will actually secure the border.
“As it stands, the border security component – which numbers only 58 pages of the 844-page bill – largely cedes authority to the Department of Homeland Security to determine when and how the border would be secure,” Cruz said. “However, today's hearing revealed that the last clear metric for border security - 'operational control' - reflected that in 2010, DHS had secured 873 miles of the more than 2,000 mile border. When that metric did not demonstrate success, DHS decided to simply abandon the metric. In order for a metric to be real, it must be meaningful. Currently, there are no objective metrics in place to ensure any triggers in this bill will be meaningful, all while the pathway to citizenship component remains contingent on this undefined border security.”
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