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DHS SECRETARY THREATENS US SHERIFFS: Obama Will Cut Their Grants If Congress Does Not Fund Amnesty
The Gateway Pundit ^ | 2-3-2015 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 02/03/2015 8:51:31 PM PST by servo1969

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson threatened US sheriffs today. Johnson told the sheriffs that they will not receive federal grants they are counting on if the Republican Congress does not fund amnesty.

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Sheriff Justin Smith from Larimer County Colorado posted this tonight on his Facebook page:

I received a very interesting veiled threat letter from Jeh Johnson, the Secretary of Homeland Security addressed to all police chiefs and sheriffs around the country.

His letter made it clear that if Congress didn’t send President Obama the DHS funding bill that he wanted (rubberstamping the president’s executive amnesty), local and state public safety agencies would not receive federal grants they were counting on because the president would veto the DHS funding bill.

Let me get this straight – the president believes he has the authority to nullify federal laws that don’t serve his personal agenda, but if Congress dares to exercise it’s responsibility of controlling the purse strings, he will willingly hold public safety grants hostage just to get his way?

Mr. President, you don’t have to love the Congress we elected, but you do have to respect their role as established under the Constitution -and Mr. Johnson, please show some integrity and stop with the threats. Sheriffs don’t take kindly to them.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; dhs; dhsfundingbill; jehjohnson; jehjohnsonthreat; obama; obamadhsfunding; policechiefs; sheriffs; smugmug
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To: Guardian Sebastian

It’s interesting that OH NO WE CAN’T HAVE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN! Not any part of it, any time, for any reason whatsoever, everyone will throw a fit, the media will cover it 48/7...

But if the federal government shuts down local government, hey no problem, no one says a peep.


41 posted on 02/03/2015 10:14:16 PM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: servo1969
So why not remove the grant money for sheriffs from DHS and put it in another part of the budget so it goes to sheriffs and never sees DHS? If they want to piss off congress, they can watch their budget get cut even farther.
42 posted on 02/03/2015 10:14:48 PM PST by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: servo1969
That's my Sheriff! Thank you, Justin!!!

Tell those weasel tyrants to shove their grants and I'll help you find funding locally.

43 posted on 02/03/2015 10:15:26 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: servo1969
That is the best thing that could happen!

States can once again rule themselves, finally, and Federal Directives can be ignored.
Sovereign states, as described in the Declaration of Independence, finally restored.

44 posted on 02/03/2015 10:16:31 PM PST by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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To: DesertRhino; RC one
Sheriff Justin Smith had to deal with five forest fires in his county in his first year in office, 2012. The biggest one consumed 87,000 acres of forest in less than a week and was only about 15 miles west of the biggest city in the county, Ft. Collins. (FWIW the wind blows from west to east.)

The following year he dealt with the so-called Thousand Year Flood which wiped out every canyon road in the county and swept on down the Poudre and Big Thompson drainages across the plains portions of Larimer cty taking out bridges and roads as it went.

He did a fantastic job of handling all of these crises which included procuring and coordinating a number of Federal fire and flood task forces respectively.

He had to compete for fire mitigation resources as there were three or four other fires of similar size in the state at the same time. There is no way any county could afford the equipment, manpower or expertise required to deal with fires or floods of the magnitude we had here.

I'll take a whore like him over a pimp like you any day.

45 posted on 02/03/2015 10:33:55 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: servo1969; All
”… he will willingly hold public safety grants hostage just to get his way?"

The states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific powers to regulate, tax and spend for either immigration purposes or intrastate public safety purposes.

And if the state legislatures still uniquely controlled the Senate, the Senate probably would have killed the House bill that appropriated taxpayer dollars for such purposes. Such funding should have never left the states.

46 posted on 02/03/2015 10:34:17 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Zathras

As I predicted and told everyone that sometime near the end of his last term. Obama will gradually reveal himself who he really is by nature. Obama is not a nice person. As a warning this country will not be safe for Jews nor Christians nor Patriots.


47 posted on 02/03/2015 10:38:10 PM PST by Patriot Babe
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To: All

I’ll be glad to kick in a thousand bucks to my friendly local Sheriff’s Department if they will sever ALL ties with 0bama and DHS.


48 posted on 02/03/2015 10:44:00 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: laplata

Also I’m not sure about you and others, but when I notice how flies would land on his face. For me Flies are an omen, I sensed that this Obama was not a good person. Now he is proving it.


49 posted on 02/03/2015 10:44:21 PM PST by Patriot Babe
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To: servo1969
Wow! This maxist POS is getting more bolder by the day. I never thought I would be good with a military coup. As watching it happen around the world, it is sometimes good.

And let me ask all the racists, what is with Obambi putting SO many blacks in positions of power who are only 12% of the population? Shall we count them? Does not anyone see this? Where is FoxNews and there so-called "fair and balanced" reporting? Right, they're scared to call it.

I will. Obambi is a racist. Come get me IRS.

50 posted on 02/03/2015 10:49:19 PM PST by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: Patriot Babe

Also I’m not sure about you and others, but when I notice how flies would land on his face. For me Flies are an omen, I sensed that this Obama was not a good person. Now he is proving it.


He is pure Evil and is demonically driven.


51 posted on 02/03/2015 10:51:21 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: servo1969

F*ck you, Jeh Johnson. You’re a racist and so is your boss. Come get me, you prick.


52 posted on 02/03/2015 10:51:46 PM PST by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: servo1969

The grounds for high crimes, is well established, presented and not argued.... Why? Islamic petro/dollars, influenza of special interest? Measles of mega fortunes? Or, Political/social classism taking every possible breath of life from the working class- Conservatives. Regardless, Stand your ground. Protect your family, in whatever way you can.


53 posted on 02/03/2015 11:02:38 PM PST by RedHeeler
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To: Patriot Babe
"....I notice how flies would land on his face....

The lord of lies is also the lord of the flies. 0bama isn't smart enough to be the anti-Christ, but he has been a very useful minion.

54 posted on 02/03/2015 11:03:36 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: servo1969

What the heck is a Department of Homeland Security Secretary doing threatening law enforcement officers who just want to perform their duty to secure the homeland ? Maybe he ought to consider another line of work. Like giving out Obama phones or something.


55 posted on 02/03/2015 11:20:19 PM PST by haroldeveryman (t)
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To: servo1969

so lemme get htsi straight- our ‘president lets 36000 CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIENS go in our streets- lets the worst of the worst terrorists go, Intentionally maligns our police forces all across the nation hoping for public unrest chaos and murders- and now is threatening to weaken our sheriff’s departments- putting our citizens at even greater risk- and He hasn’t been impeached why again?


56 posted on 02/03/2015 11:38:59 PM PST by Bob434
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To: SatinDoll

[[You don’t know that, Doug.]]

We can be pretty damned certain he would not have as compared to pretty damned certain our current ‘leader’ WOULD do these things- Had Romney even attempted a tiny fraction of the CRAP this president has pulled on us, the main stream media would have screamed and screamed until he was kicked out of office— but dear leader is able to get away with all of that crap because he is liberal and black- two things the main stream media worship


57 posted on 02/03/2015 11:43:04 PM PST by Bob434
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To: Patriot Babe

[[As I predicted and told everyone that sometime near the end of his last term. Obama will gradually reveal himself who he really is by nature. Obama is not a nice person. As a warning this country will not be safe for Jews nor Christians nor Patriots.]]

But but w have the GOP to protect us against such htings..... holding my breath.....

I predicted the same thing- I said if he ever got into office for a second term he was going to unleash unholy hell on this country knowing that it would be the last ‘great chance’ the left had to destroy this nation and lien their pockets I n the process- and that is precisely what has happened! Only a blind man with brain damage AND a frontal lobotomy couldn’t see it coming


58 posted on 02/03/2015 11:46:58 PM PST by Bob434
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To: TigersEye

The curse known as Obama will be with us for another two years. The curse of amnesty will be with us forever.


59 posted on 02/03/2015 11:51:51 PM PST by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a politically correct way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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To: servo1969

I keep waiting for the good guys wearing white hats to come riding in on horses to save the day...


60 posted on 02/03/2015 11:52:45 PM PST by Enduro Guy
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