[Sabertooth]

The issue is that ASA HUTCHINSON stopped the California border patrol from doing its job. He did NOT have to cave from pressure. Are you telling me that federal government is correct in caving to pressure to abdicate constitutionally mandated responsibilities whenever someone whines? The fact is Hutchinson CHOSE to cave. He could have held strong and upheld the rule of law.

Perhaps Hutchison didn't choose. Perhaps he was ordered.

Whatever the case, he is offering limp-wristed rationalizations for his poor job performance.

John went easy on him. Hutchison is a disgrace.

Hutchison is claiming that the priority should be the border, and posing all manner of false dilemmas between border and interior enforcement.

Earlier he was saying problem was coordination.

Hutchison should be sacked on the basis of this interview alone.

[diotima]

He may very well have been ordered. Regardless, someone, somewhere long the line made a decision to shut this BP down. And this shut down was not only unnecessary, but completely flies in the face of the fedgov's responsibility to secure our borders. It is disgraceful and inexcuseable.

Oh yeah, I'm sure none of those border jumpers have anything to do the election fraud that helps keep Feinstein and Boxer in office. But lets shut down the BP and bitch about the crappy senators in CA.

[Torie]

Interior enforcement except in selected situations without going after illegal employment, and the active prosecution of employers, strikes me as a very bad policy doomed to fail, politically and practically. The incentives will still be there, but the clandestine will increase, and the disruptions will increase, and the bitterness will increase, and the abuse of children will increase (including the neglecting of their education, which cannot and should not stand). It is sort of like a heavy chemo program with not much efficacy in the end. John and Ken should have me on. I will tell them. Just making life more miserable for illegals who can still work, and whose employers have incentives to hire them, is at once cruel and unusual, and only works at incentives at the margins for so many of these relative desperate people.