Posted on 06/10/2014 8:42:08 AM PDT by don-o
The vast wave of illegal aliens now swamping America’s southern border and Obama’s intentional policy of not just ignoring it, but encouraging it and spreading its effects, has brought about renewed calls for the House to start impeachment proceedings.
The question is: Whom should the House impeach?
Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar says the House should start with Attorney General Eric Holder, and we certainly agree.
While we have long been critical of Holder’s pattern of lawlessness with regard to lying to Congress and ignoring the powers reserved to the states by the Constitution (for which we called for Holder’s impeachment more than a year ago) Gosar has a more immediate and practical argument in favor of impeaching the Attorney General: he is committing a felony by shipping illegal aliens across state lines and releasing them.
For the record, putting an illegal alien in a car, bus or plane and transporting them to another location is deemed "alien smuggling" and is a crime. See 8 USC § 1324 (a)(1)(A).
As Congressman Gosar detailed in a written statement, Andy Adame, Special Operations Supervisor for Border Patrol in Arizona, confirmed 400 detained illegal aliens were shipped to Arizona after being apprehended by the Border Patrol in Texas.
According to DHS officials, illegal aliens were shipped by plane and bus to Phoenix and Tucson due to lack of manpower to handle the large surge in illegal crossing at the southern Texas border. According to Adame, roughly 1,000 illegal aliens are apprehended in South Texas each day. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have stated that the illegal aliens being released are not known criminals.
After an initial screening, illegal aliens are being released under the condition they report to a local ICE office near their final destination within 15 days. Media reports indicate very few illegal aliens are actually returning to finish processing. So far this fiscal year, the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol sector has apprehended more than 140,000 people.
DHS officials also revealed iwhen briefing Gosar that there are no mechanisms in place by which the federal government shares its National Crime Information Center (NCIC) databases of information relating to criminals with state authorities, yet the feds forbid those very same states from enforcing current immigration laws.
Gosar also sent a letter outlining his concerns to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa and subsequent to the letter issued a statement calling for Holder’s impeachment.
Gosar's list of questions is lengthy, but important in its totality, because it shows the vast scope and ripple effect of Holder’s lawless actions.
Who authorized this directive at DHS/ICE?
What is the law enforcement purpose of this policy?
Why would DHS/ICE be transporting these individuals to Tucson from as far away as Texas?
Why were Arizona/Phoenix/Tucson chosen as the drop off location(s) for these illegal immigrants?
Is it at all possible that DHS/ICE could be directly or indirectly facilitating the practice of human trafficking?
What exact instructions were given to these illegal immigrants after they were dropped off in Arizona?
Have these types of actions taken place before? If so, when, where, and how often?
If this action has taken place before, what has been the success rate in self-reporting to court dates and properly resolving immigration status?
What measures are being taken to account for an estimated 60,000 illegal immigrant children who will cross the U.S. border?
How or why is this Administration executing immigration policies which amount to the inhumane transfer and neglect of women and children?
Is the practice of busing illegal immigrants to Arizona or other neighboring states the policy that the U.S. intends to implement now and in the future?
What recourse will be implemented to attend to these displaced persons and which agency or federal program will manage the care?
What policies are in place to address any illegal activity that takes place amongst these individuals while detained or abandoned?
It is telling that so far DHS officials refused to cite the statutory authority for this new policy.
We agree with Congressman Gosar’s statement. “While it is hard to discern which of his previous trespasses are most egregious, this is one scandal for which he cannot retain his job. It starts at the top with Eric Holder and if the chief law enforcement officer of the United States is not going to enforce the laws of this land, then he should be impeached."
So What!
It’s not like the first impeachable offense, and it certainly won’t be the last.
Does it really matter?
The Republicans in Congress won’t do a thing anyway.
Why doesn’t Arizona send them to California?
Exactly. This is delusional talk. The point is to focus on elections, not to promote fantasies.
Bullshit - send them back to who sent them....we’re already inundated with “our own”.
A new week. A new impeachable offense.
“Taliban Mullah in Chief” Hussein Obama has chosen “Secretary of Defending the Taliban” Hagel to continue to make “Grand Bargains” with Gitmo Prisoners so that Gitmo can be closed on the last day that all US Military Personnel finally abandon Afghanistan to the Taliban.
Transporting invaders across state lines?
TREASON
If there is such a thing as federal law and it is being violated by simply ignoring the law...hell yes he should be impeached.
They didn’t walk a thousand miles and Mexico didn’t let them wander up here unescorted.
There is a lot more to this.
That would rally his base for the cry of racism. AOEBO.
Winking at lawlessness is a terrible precedent to set.
How does the paperwork go for that???
Under what department or government program do you acquire buses, put illegal aliens on them, and ship them to another state and just drop them off at a bus station?
Some one in the government paid for that expense... Who?
Does it really matter?
The Republicans in Congress won’t do a thing anyway.
They (mostly) all seem quite content with the status quo. Not one peep.
8 USC § 2339A Providing material support to terrorists
America will NEVER recover from the Cloward-Piven attack on America underway right now.. NEVER.
In the photos I've seen, all of these aliens look clean with clean clothes, too. Many are smiling, even. Something very evil is going on when it comes to the planning that went into this. Team Obama has lots of explaining to do. Holder is probably the point man on logistics to help these aliens get here. Before it was AK-47's to Mexican narco terrorists. This time it's humans being smuggled the other way.
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