What a dumba$$ 
Posted on 8/14/2007, 7:00:26 PM by SwinneySwitch
EL PASO, Texas, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said he hopes Congress will soon revisit immigration reform for economic reasons.
Chertoff told a border-security conference in El Paso, Texas, that his department was now faced with having to enforce immigration laws that not only pull resources away from dealing with security threats but also have a negative impact on agriculture and other economic sectors that have become dependent on illegal migrant labor.
“I’m still hopeful that it may be revisited,” he said of the immigration bill, which died in the Senate this year.
“In the long run, we all know that this problem has to be tackled comprehensively,” he said, by creating a channel for those who want to come to the country for work to do so legally.
Meanwhile, Homeland Security found itself facing “a need to pursue people coming here (illegally) to work, taking time away from (pursuing people) who are coming here to do us harm” like drug smugglers and terrorists.
Chertoff said he does not necessarily expect another vast comprehensive immigration package like the stalled reform bill. “It may take a couple of bites to digest,” he said.
But in the meantime his department and other federal agencies “had no choice” but to enforce existing laws, with consequences that will be “quite serious for some sectors” of the U.S. economy, like farming.
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Shaun Waterman, UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
What a load of balogne!
“Chertoff said he does not necessarily expect another vast comprehensive immigration package like the stalled reform bill. “It may take a couple of bites to digest,” he said”
Chertoff just told us that he will feed us in small bites. The brazen SOB doesn’t even try to hide it!!
Idiot.
Replace Jerkoff with an America first leader!
“”In the long run, we all know that this problem has to be tackled comprehensively,””
It’s strange. About a year ago or so he called for “comprehensive reform” but without the rah rah, hinting that enforcement could only be done with an amnesty not for logical reasons, but political. Now he’s acting like a true believer, while Bush and Rove move on like it’s just another shady business that fell through.
This fool is really making me tired.
Chertoff and his ilk are either very stupid, or are up to something. Since it is difficult to believe that EVERYONE in government service is stupid, I must conclude that they are up to something.
How could anyone expect us to believe that an open border with a third-world toilet is not a security risk?
Man, these government officials are unbelievable. Does this idiot think the American people are in any mood for this?
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What a dumba$$
Here we have the guy who is supposed to be enforcing our laws saying he doesn’t want to do it.
Fire him..today.
We need to swamp the WH with calls to fire this idiot.
But if the amnesty bill would have passed, the government would have had the resources to guard the border, process millions of visa requests in 24 hours and chase down those who decided not to apply for amnesty for some reason. Yeah, right.
“I’m still hopeful that it may be revisited,” he said of the immigration bill, which died in the Senate this year.
Those arrogant SOBs are treating us like stubborn four year olds who refused to eat dinner. The promise that they'll just put it in the refrigerator and bring it back day after day until we swallow it.
“In the long run, we all know that this problem has to be tackled comprehensively,” he said, by creating a channel for those who want to come to the country for work to do so legally.
There is such a channel. They can go to their own countries and apply for an immigrant or a work visa, wait a few years and finally get on the list to come here. If that process is too slow, then fix it before you promise that you can process 12-20 million people here for amnesty.
Chertoff said he does not necessarily expect another vast comprehensive immigration package like the stalled reform bill. “It may take a couple of bites to digest,” he said.
Here are the bites:
Bite 1 - protection of the border. No one crosses outside of the legal crossing points.
Bite 2 - complete entry and exit tracking. No one enters without their name and ID being entered into the computer. When they exit that gets entered too. Then figure out who came in but didn't leave leading to ...
Bite 3 - arrest of visa overstays and illegals past the border.
After the government has swallowed, digested and included as part of their body those three bites, we can talk about what they might want for dessert.
But in the meantime his department and other federal agencies “had no choice” but to enforce existing laws,
Gasp... enforcing existing laws. Is that the last refuge of those begging for amnesty?
Yeah, well, we’re still hopeful on border fencing.
Or maybe to the families of the numerous people that have died at the hands of illegal alien drunks. Chertoff is an Idiot and doesn't deserved to even be called an American.
Build the fence. You can get everything you need at Home Depot, along with a dozen Mexicans to put it up.
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