Posted on 06/25/2012 1:20:20 PM PDT by bestintxas
The Obama administration said Monday it is suspending existing agreements with Arizona police over enforcement of federal immigration laws, and said it has issued a directive telling federal authorities to decline many of the calls reporting illegal immigrants that the Homeland Security Department may get from Arizona police.
Administration officials, speaking on condition they not be named, told reporters they expect to see an increase in the number of calls they get from Arizona police — but that won’t change President Obama’s decision to limit whom the government actually tries to detain and deport.
“We will not be issuing detainers on individuals unless they clearly meet our defined priorities,” one official said in a telephone briefing.
The official said that despite the increased number of calls, which presumably means more illegal immigrants being reported, the Homeland Security Department is unlikely to detain a significantly higher number of people and won’t be boosting personnel to handle the new calls.
“We do not plan on putting additional staff on the ground in Arizona,” the official said.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Arizona may not impose its own penalties for immigration violations, but it said state and local police could check the legal status of those they have reasonable suspicion to believe are in the country illegally.
That means police statewide can immediately begin calling to check immigration status — but federal officials are likely to reject most of those calls.
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This may go down as the most blatantly childish act from a notoriously dysfunctional administration.
I can’t wait!
This scumbag and his Marxist comrades must be voted out of office.
You know, if we actually had an honest press, there’d be comparisons to Willie Horton the first time an illegal committed a capital crime in Arizona.
How can that be legal? Oh, I forgot for a moment. The Won obeys only the laws he wants to.
“Send them to Southern California. No one would notice”
So true socal is a suburb of mexico already
“Here’s a strongly worded retort from Mittens;”
Would somebody tell that moron and his sidekick tonto rubio that we already have a plan its called the LAW... Enforce it or GTF out of our life....
Absolutely. I think the "Dreamer" non-amnesty amnesty for those who are 16-30 and claim to be here for five years is a direct threat to the election. When they are processed and given work permits, the Obama proxies will be outside the door registering them to vote and the Feds are making sure that the states can't prevent the vote fraud.
Some might call that disloyal. Some might call it oathbreaking. Some might even say it hints of treason.
If we actually had an honest press, we’d all be deaf from the sounds of sawing and hammering to build all the gallows needed.
I’d go a step further.
I’d suspend all tax collections from the state for the federal government too.
AZ is NOT getting what they pay for.
Tent sales rise....
Whereupon the insufferably hypocritical Obama would sue of course. But it would help the economy of Nebraska: they’d sell record batches of popcorn!
Does he actually believe them? Will he act on them if elected?
I wish I were sure that he did.
Trying to have it both ways... promising a more liberal immigration policy while decrying the lack of legality in Obama’s move. Mitt does look like he wants it all to be Constitutional, but he ought to be bold in saying so. This is not hugely better than the 2008 Kentucky Fried Gentleman’s approach.
I wonder what he will do when he lose Thursday on Obama Care?
Homeland Security our ashes. Grandma gets patted down at the airport but some murderous drug lord or even some foreign terrorist can slip through the border or cannot be stopped via ‘profiling’ is sickening. How many American lives have or will be lost due to murderous illegal invaders. Our Govt. mostly SUCKs and plays politics with innocent lives at stake.
Janet Napolitano should be brought up on charges, or impeached (or something) for dereliction of her duty to enforce the laws of our country as well as our constitution. She (and her boss, bam-bam) are worse than the corner drug dealer and child molester, because of the high offices that they hold and the great responsibility they have to abide by and enforce our laws.
Un-flippin’-believable.
The law means nothing to these bastards.
If it happens... well if Mitt knows what’s good for him he won’t prance right up and promise the country Romneycare.
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