Posted on 08/10/2010 5:05:54 PM PDT by Kaslin
Border: After suing Arizona to assert federal supremacy over states on immigration, it turns out that ICE, Washington's immigration cop on the beat, isn't enforcing the law at all. This is amnesty by another name.
Oh, what a hullabaloo the Justice Department made last month over Arizona's SB 1070, arguing before a federal district judge that the law must be struck down because the federal government has "pre-eminent authority to regulate immigration matters."
Arizona's effort was depicted as some sort of secessionist usurpation of federal prerogatives, despite the fact that SB 1070 mirrored federal law.
Incredibly, Judge Susan Bolton, an appointee of President Clinton, agreed and issued an injunction on those grounds.
In practical terms, her decision means that Arizona's 15,000 lawmen could not help federal agents enforce the law on America's largest and most dangerous immigrant-smuggling corridor.
Now it's obvious why: The Justice Department isn't interested in enforcing the law.
Last week, 259 representatives of the union that represents 7,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents handed down a unanimous vote of "no confidence" in ICE leaders, whose policies keep them from doing their job.
Based on those policies, agents can no longer arrest illegal immigrants even if they announce their status on a sandwich board.
According to a June 29 memo from ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton, ICE must now "prioritize the apprehension and removal of aliens who only pose a threat to national security and/or public safety, such as criminals and terrorists."
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how on earth do you stop it...they dont care what the public wants or votes for...
You hang everyone in the District of Criminals.
And leave them up as a warning to their replacements.
America -- a great idea, didn't last.
Why does ICE continue to exist then?
Defund ‘em.
We must take Washington back
they are dug in...i dont think there is anyway to get rid of them
Jan Brewer did, and she's the no contest leader now.
All they have to do is point all of this out to the voters.
Will they follow the seedy and irrelevant John McCain, or the tough lady of the moment, Ms. Brewer?
The former, they lose; the latter...they win, Big.
Excellent point
Ping!
Not only should they not enforce Federal law, they should stop cooperating with all Federal agencies.
I agree. I get more frustrated by the day. If more Americans “got it” we would be ok, but large portions of the American public is uninterested in the issue because it hasn’t stopped them from using their techie gadgets or made them miss the Jersey Shore.
I have thought the same thing.
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