ICE official John Morton may decline to process illegal aliens from Arizona. Jim Hoft:
He didn't go out on that limb on his own, of course.John Morton, assistant secretary of homeland security for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Top Obama official told reporters from the Chicago Tribune today that the administration has no intention of processing illegal aliens referred by Arizona!
FOX News:
Sen. Jeff Sessions:“I don’t think the Arizona law, or laws like it, are the solution,” Morton told the newspaper.
The best way to reduce illegal immigration is through a comprehensive federal approach, he said, and not a patchwork of state laws.
Krauthammer calls it lawless:Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-AL, said it appeared the Obama administration is "nullifying existing law" and suggested Morton may not be the right person for his post if he fails to enforce federal immigration law.
"If he feels he cannot enforce the law, he shouldn't have the job," Sessions told Fox News. "That makes him, in my view, not fulfilling the responsibilities of his office."
Sessions said the U.S. government has "systematically failed" to enforce federal immigration law and claimed Morton's statement is an indication that federal officials do not plan on working with Arizona authorities regarding its controversial law.
"They're telegraphing to every ICE agency in America that they really don't intend on cooperating with Arizona," Sessions said. "The federal government should step up and do it. It's their responsibility."
But Judge Andrew Napolitano says ICE has discretion:
In that case, what will happen to the illegal aliens that Arizona apprehends?Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano said ICE is not obligated to process illegal immigrants referred to them by Arizona authorities.
"ICE has the legal discretion to accept or not to accept persons delivered to it by non-federal personnel," Napolitano said. "It also has the discretion to deport or not to deport persons delivered to it by any government agents, even its own."
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My initial reaction to this announcement was that Obama is acting like a child. I wonder how close such behavior would approach high crimes and misdemeanors.
ReplyDeleteObama is not upholding the Constitution and the law of the land. In his position, that is treason. Let the prosecution begin. Only problem is that Biden would become president.
ReplyDeleteLet's face it: the political establishment, as well as about 25% of the general public, do not have the will to enforce immigration laws, because by definition, enforcement of immigration laws entail......deportation.
ReplyDeleteIf we're not willing to deport millions (really tens of millions) of illegal aliens, then we're really not a country anymore, not a nation of laws certainly. Certain ethnic groups (latinos) are allowed to break multiple laws - illegal entry, working here while being illegal, fake or stolen social security number, fake or stolen driver license, income tax evasion, etc.
We're really not a country anymore, just a loose region.
Perhaps Arizona should put the illegal aliens on a bus and drop them off at the visitors entrance to the White House.
ReplyDeleteHmmm . . . let's think. At what other times in history have governments decided to uphold some laws and ignore others and to prosecute some lawbreakers but not others. What do we call that again? And how does that end in every single instance?
ReplyDeleteThis is crazy, but the scariest thing is that they are confident enough in their lawlessness to publicly announce it rather than simply ignoring it on the DL. Flaunting the fact that they have zero intention of upholding the laws of this land, knowing they'll get no criticism from the battered wife media, is a scary development. The bolder this administration gets, the more fearful I become.
(And I'm still incensed that they are not prosecuting the Black Panther voter intimidation case--I feel pretty certain that if a Tea Party person were standing around like that, they'd be thrown under the jail).